Contemporary Aspects of Gastronomic Lexicon in Oghuz Dialects of Khorezm Region: A Sociolinguistic Analysis

Abstract

This study examines the contemporary evolution of gastronomic lexicon within the Oghuz dialects spoken in the Khorezm region of Uzbekistan. Through systematic fieldwork and corpus analysis, this research investigates how traditional culinary terminology has adapted to modern socio-economic changes, globalization influences, and intergenerational language transmission patterns. The findings reveal significant lexical innovation, semantic shifts, and borrowing processes that reflect broader cultural transformations in this historically significant region. This research contributes to dialectological studies, linguistic anthropology, and the documentation of endangered linguistic varieties in Central Asia.