Pragmatic Features of Word Order in French and Uzbek

Narzullaeva Dilfuza  Bafoevna; Mukhammadova Rayhona  Jasurbek Qizi

doi:10.51699/cajlpc.v7i1.1424

Authors

Narzullaeva Dilfuza Bafoevna Teacher of French Philology department, Bukhara State University
Mukhammadova Rayhona Jasurbek Qizi Bukhara State University, Faculty of Foreign Languages, 4th year student, Philology and Language Teaching (French)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51699/cajlpc.v7i1.1424

Keywords:

pragmatics, word order, information structure, theme–rheme, French, Uzbek

Abstract

This study considers the pragmatic functions of word order in French and Uzbek through a comparative linguistic approach. This study investigates the role of word order in information structure, communicative intention, and theme–rheme alignment in several typologically distinct languages. By comparative and descriptive, qualitative process-oriented methods, we analyze the syntactic patterns, pragmatic strategies, and discourse-level realizations in both languages. The results indicate that syntactically and prosodically encoded pragmatic meaning in French, with its rather fixed SVO word order, compared to Uzbek, with a free SOV structure, is primarily conveyed by means of word order variation. This has relevant consequences for the comparative linguistics, the translation studies, and for the foreign language pedagogy.

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