The Representation of Loyalty in Political Discourse: A Corpus-Assisted Contrastive Analysis of English And Uzbek Presidential Speeches

This study investigates the representation of the concept of loyalty in political discourse through a corpus-assisted contrastive analysis of English and Uzbek presidential speeches delivered between 2020 and 2025. The dataset consists of a purpose-built mini-corpus of approximately 85,000 words, including speeches by U.S. Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. The study integrates Critical Discourse Analysis and corpus-assisted methods to examine lexical patterns, collocations, metaphorical constructions, and pragmatic functions associated with loyalty-related expressions. The findings reveal significant cross-cultural differences: in English political discourse, loyalty is predominantly framed as institutional commitment and is subject to evaluative and critical interpretation, whereas in Uzbek discourse, it is constructed as a stable moral value closely linked to patriotism, collective identity, and social duty. The study demonstrates that loyalty functions as a key ideological and persuasive resource in both contexts, contributing to the construction of national identity and the legitimation of political authority. By providing a systematic cross-linguistic analysis, the research contributes to discourse studies and highlights the importance of culturally grounded interpretations of political values

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