This study investigates the stylistic and semantic features of loneliness depiction in twentieth-century English and Uzbek short fiction, focusing on how linguistic choices and narrative strategies reflect culturally shaped emotional experiences. Using a qualitative comparative approach, the research analyzes eight short stories from Hemingway, Mansfield, Qodiriy, and Zulfiya Qurolboy qizi, examining their lexical patterns, symbolic structures, and stylistic devices. The findings reveal that English modernist writers rely on minimalist narration, subtle implication, and symbolic contrast to represent solitude as an individual and existential condition. In contrast, Uzbek authors employ expressive imagery, extended metaphors, and socially embedded semantic fields that portray loneliness as a disruption of communal ties and emotional harmony. Despite cultural differences, both traditions share motifs of silence, darkness, and internal conflict, indicating the universal nature of human isolation. The study contributes to stylistics, literary semantics, and comparative literature by demonstrating how cultural context shapes the linguistic representation of psychological states and by highlighting both convergences and divergences in the artistic portrayal of loneliness.                                                                                                                                   

loneliness, stylistics and semantic analysis, English short fiction, Uzbek short fiction, modernism, cultural representation, symbolism, comparative literature, emotional semantics.

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https://www.litcharts.com/lit/miss-brill/themes/loneliness-and-alienation