Intertextual Units, Realias, and Lacunas in Linguistic Discourse: Criteria for Delimitation and Contrastive Analysis in Uzbek Literature
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This study investigates the theoretical and empirical delimitation between intertextual units, cultural realias, and intercultural lacunas within linguistic and translation discourse. While all three categories represent manifestations of culture-bound non-equivalence, they stem from divergent semiotic, cognitive, and communicative mechanisms. Grounded in text linguistics, cognitive frame semantics, and T.E. Litvinenko’s operational criteria, this paper presents a comparative framework that differentiates vertical intertextual referencing from ethnographic denotation (realias) and cognitive-systemic conceptual absences (lacunas). The empirical corpus comprises classical and modern Uzbek literary masterworks alongside their authoritative English and Russian translations. The analysis demonstrates that intertextual units operate along a dual syntagmatic-associative axis requiring source-pretext anchoring, whereas realias represent material ethnocultural referents, and lacunas reflect systemic verbal-conceptual asymmetries across linguistic worldviews.
Author: Kamolovna , Rakhimova Nodira
Institution: Navoi State University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7225528346