AN EXPLORATORY COMPARATIVE PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF GENDERED EVALUATIVE EXPRESSIONS IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK PUBLIC DISCOURSE
This exploratory study examines gendered evaluative expressions in English and Uzbek public discourse from a comparative pragmatic perspective. The analysis draws on an author-compiled purposive dataset of 100 evaluative units, with 50 English and 50 Uzbek items, and focuses on the Attitude subsystem of Appraisal Theor...