PSYCHOLINGUISTIC FEATURES OF ELIZABETH BENNET AND MR. DARCY'S SPEECH IN UZBEK TRANSLATION

This article investigates the psycholinguistic features of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy’s speech in Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice and examines their representation in Uzbek translation. The research focuses on speech portrait markers, including lexical choices, pragmatic strategies, emotional-evaluative expressions, politeness formulas, and communicative behavior. The analysis demonstrates that Elizabeth’s speech is characterized by high emotional expressiveness, irony, dialogic flexibility, and implicit evaluation, whereas Darcy’s speech reveals restraint, formal politeness, rationality, and controlled emotionality. The study shows that Uzbek translation generally preserves the communicative contrast between the characters; however, certain psycholinguistic nuances such as irony, implicature, and subtle evaluative meanings require adaptation due to cultural and pragmatic differences. The findings confirm that translation of character speech is not only a linguistic process but also a psycholinguistic reconstruction of personality traits and communicative identity.