SOCIOLINGUISTIC PRINCIPLES OF THE USE OF ENGLISH IN THE LANGUAGE ACTIVITY OF THE POPULATION OF UZBEKISTAN

The aim of the paper is to analyze the spread of the English language in Uzbekistan, its place in communicative relations in various socio-economic spheres, sociolinguistic and pragmatic status of English in Uzbekistan. Article addresses sociolinguistic principles of the use of English in the language activity of the population of Uzbekistan, by defining sociolinguistic and pragmatic features of the communicative role of the English language introduced in Uzbekistan, in order to determine the perspectives for its formation. In particular, the article establishes that citizens of the country use English as an international language of communication, it performs a communicative function, and Uzbek serves as a source of knowledge and retains its cognitive function. Besides, the article provides data from an experimental evidence to determine thespecificity of thinking by members of different peoples and identifies the characteristic features of the Eastern way of thinking that affect the English language of the area. The author of the article also gives the results of comparative analysis of grammatical and lexical features of the media language on the example of newspapers “Uzbekistan Today” and “USNews and the World Report”.