International Seminar on "Linguocultural Features of Phrases in Turkic Languages"
On December 26, 2024, Tashkent State University of Uzbek Language and Literature named after Alisher Navoi hosted an international scientific seminar on the topic "Linguocultural Features of Phrases in Turkic Languages."
The seminar was opened by the Prorector for International Cooperation, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor Nozliya Normurodova, who introduced the projects implemented at the university on an international scale and outlined future tasks. During the event, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor Zulxumor Kholmanova shared her valuable insights into the linguistic aspects of language, thought, culture, and idiomatic expressions.
The seminar featured prominent scholars such as Associate Professor Tudora Arnaut from Oxford University, Associate Professor Lyubov Chimpoyesh from Komrat State University, and Associate Professor Emrah Yilmaz from Samarkand State University. They presented their scientific reports on the idiomatic expressions of Turkic languages, their translations, their role in cultural cognition, and comparative analysis with other languages. The reports addressed challenges in studying idioms, the influence of intercultural exchange, and the analysis of lexical richness across different languages.
Within the seminar, participants engaged in discussions, posing questions related to the topic and proposing initiatives for creating corpora of Turkic language idioms and developing collaborative dictionaries. Additionally, Associate Professor Muhittin Gumush from Kyrgyz-Turkish International University named after Manas expressed gratitude to the organizers and highly praised the scientific endeavors at Tashkent State University.
The event was attended by scholars, doctoral students, researchers, and graduate students from partner universities across the country and abroad. The seminar was conducted both offline and online, with a live broadcast available on YouTube.
This international scientific seminar shed light on pressing issues in linguistics and opened new avenues for scholarly collaboration.