Zoonyms as national specific means creating images in the English and Uzbek languages

Along with the formation of cultural views, the ideas related to it, especially customs and morals also begin to appear. Language, which is one of the important components of culture, serves as a means of conveying views, approaches, concepts and other characteristics. This article is devoted to revealing of national-cultural specificity of image-bearing means in the English and Uzbek languages.
In the main part of the article, descriptive features of zoonyms in English and Uzbek languages are revealed through the method of comparison with the help of examples in order to see a clear national image. Obviously, zoonyms are analyzed and their complete compatibility or non-compatibility is determined in two languages. Traditional (descriptive, comparative analysis) and cognitive modeling methods of analysis were used during the research. As a result of the research, it was possible to describe the main concepts of cultural studies in the English and Uzbek languages and identify national specific images using zoonyms. Therefore, in the Uzbek language, the word “pig” means dirt, while the symbol “horse” is associated with beauty. If the word “monkey” in English culture is used to describe a characteristic of person, including very active young people, in Uzbek society, the image of "monkey" has a negative meaning when describing people.
We can say that although the concepts are reflected in many languages, when we analyzed the materials in the Uzbek and English languages, we encountered similar and different aspects of expressing metaphors related to the animal world in both languages.