A COGNITIVE STUDY OF NUMERICAL COMPONENT PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS

Аннотация

This article provides a comprehensive cognitive analysis of lexical units containing numerical components, with an emphasis on how numbers function as culturally and conceptually important elements in figurative language. Based on theoretical foundations in cognitive linguistics, this study investigates the mental representations, conceptual metaphors, and associative frameworks underlying numerical representations in English and Uzbek.

Particular attention is paid to the symbolic meanings ascribed to certain numbers, their differences between cultures, and their role in the structure of human thought. This study also investigates how numerical elements contribute to semantic motivation, categorization, and idiomatic meaning creation. This study uses comparative descriptive methods to show that digital idioms are not arbitrary combinations but cognitive expressions that reflect shared cultural patterns, experiential knowledge, and linguistic creativity. The results contribute to a deeper understanding of the cognitive mechanisms that form representations and provide insight into the linguistic representation of quantitative concepts in different languages.