FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE CONCEPT “FRIENDSHIP” IN UZBEK AND RUSSIAN LANGUAGE CORPORA

Abstract

This article examines the comparative frequency of the Uzbek lexeme “do‘stlik” and the Russian lexeme “дружба” in language corpora. The study draws on corpus linguistics, quantitative analysis, and contextual-semantic methods. It outlines procedures for identifying raw and normalized frequencies, accounting for grammatical forms, examining genre and chronological distribution, and analyzing usage contexts. The Uzbek National Corpus and the Russian National Corpus are considered as electronic resources for comparative research. The article explains why raw counts from corpora of different sizes cannot be compared directly and why frequency values should be normalized. The proposed methodology provides a framework for investigating the lexical distribution of the concept of friendship in Uzbek and Russian.