THE POETICS OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS BASED ON THE SOMATIC CONCEPT IN "QUTADGU BILIG" AND THEIR LINGUOCULTUROLOGICAL ISSUES

This article explores somatic phraseological units in Yusuf Khass Hajib’s “Qutadgu bilig” and the challenges of translating them. Somatic imagery shapes an anthropocentric worldview and clusters around concepts such as head, tongue, eye, hand, face/color, and heart/soul. By comparing Q.Karimov’s uzbek rendition wi.th Walter May’s and Robert Dankoff’s English translations and S. Ivanov’s Russian translation, the paper evaluates calque, idiomatic substitution, explicitation, and amplification. It argues that successful translation depends less on formal mimicry than on preserving pragmatic effect and cultural connotation.