A COGNITIVE-PRAGMATIC MODEL OF NEGATIVE EMOTION VERBALIZATION: EVIDENCE FROM ENGLISH AND UZBEK MEDIA DISCOURSE
Keywords:
cognitive-pragmatic model; negative emotions; verbalization; conceptualization; media discourse; English; Uzbek; pragmatics.Abstract
This article proposes a five-stage cognitive-pragmatic model for analysing negative-emotion verbalization in English and Uzbek media discourse. The model—emotional situation → conceptualization → linguistic verbalization → pragmatic modification → discursive result—was developed from qualitative analysis of authentic television, interview, podcast, print and social-media materials collected for a comparative PhD study. It integrates cognitive framing, linguistic encoding and discourse-pragmatic function without treating the sequence as a universal psychological processing claim. Representative examples show that emotional meaning may be directly named, metaphorically construed, intensified, mitigated, contextually loaded or evaluatively reframed. The model explains how similar negative experiential domains can acquire different linguistic profiles in English and Uzbek and provides an analytical matrix for distinguishing lexical-semantic correspondence from pragmatic equivalence.
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