Seasonal metaphors and their conceptual meanings in English and Uzbek folk narratives: a cognitive linguistic approach

This study investigates the conceptual structure of seasonal metaphors in English and Uzbek folk narratives through the lens of Cognitive Linguistics, drawing primarily on Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) as formulated by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and its subsequent refinements. By analysing a corpus of 180 folk tales, proverbs, and oral narrative fragments drawn from canonical Anglophone folklore archives and classical Uzbek oral tradition, the research identifies, classifies, and comparatively evaluates the metaphorical mappings associated with the four seasons—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—and their corresponding conceptual domains. The findings reveal that both traditions share a substantial number of primary metaphors rooted in embodied experience, yet diverge markedly in the cultural elaboration of those mappings, reflecting distinct agricultural histories, climatic realities, and cosmological worldviews.

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