The relationship between speech meaning and communicative functions is one of the most urgent theoretical problems of modern linguistics. In recent years, as a result of the rapid development of pragmatics, discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and linguoculturology, the phenomenon of overlap, associated with the simultaneous performance of several semantic and pragmatic functions of language units, is being formed as a separate scientific direction. In this article, the phenomenon of overlap of speech meaning and functions in English and Uzbek is analyzed theoretically and methodologically on the basis of modern linguistic paradigms. The research used comparative-typological, descriptive, discursive, pragmatic and linguocognitive analysis methods. As a result, the semantic, pragmatic and communicative properties of the overlap phenomenon were systematized, and a conceptual model was developed reflecting the integrative relationship between discourse meaning and communicative functions. The results of the research serve as a theoretical basis for studying the overlap phenomenon in comparative studies of English and Uzbek languages, discourse analysis, translation studies, and modern applied linguistics.

overlap, discourse meaning, communicative function, pragmatics, discourse, linguocognitive analysis, comparative linguistics, English, Uzbek.

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