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This article examines the contextual and functional differentiation of plesionyms in English and Uzbek. Plesionyms are understood as semantically proximate lexical units that share common semantic features but differ in particular aspects of meaning, contextual
distribution, collocation, stylistic value, connotation, or pragmatic function. The purpose of the study is to identify the principal contextual mechanisms through which plesionymic relations are differentiated and to determine their functional realization in English and Uzbek. The research employs componential, contextual, comparative, distributional, and functional methods. Selected lexical relations are analyzed according to their shared and distinctive
semantic components and their behavior in context. The findings demonstrate that semantic
proximity does not entail complete interchangeability.
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