THE LANGUAGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION DOCUMENTS IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK AND THEIR SCHOLARLY INVESTIGATION
Keywords:
Higher education documents, academic language, English, Uzbek, scholarly analysis, comparative linguisticsAbstract
This article explores the linguistic characteristics of higher education documents in English and Uzbek. It focuses on their structural, lexical, and stylistic features, as well as the scholarly approaches used to investigate academic and administrative texts in both languages. Through comparative analysis, the study identifies similarities and differences shaped by cultural, institutional, and historical factors. The findings contribute to academic discourse on educational linguistics and translation studies.
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