A Corpus-Based Linguopoetic Analysis of Figurative Language in Sharof Rashidov’s Kashmir Qo’shig’i (Prose Text)

Abstract

This paper presents an annotated figurative-language corpus for Uzbek, developed through a corpus-based linguopoetic analysis of Sharof Rashidov’s Kashmir qo’shig’i (1952). The complete prose text (Muqaddima + Chapters 1–7, 3,514 tokens) was manually annotated using an extended Metaphor Identification Protocol with a five-category annotation scheme covering metaphor, simile, epithet, personification, and metonymy. A total of 149 figurative tokens (95 types) were identified, yielding a density of 42.4 devices per 1,000 words. Metaphor dominates (47.7%), followed by simile (20.8%), personification (18.8%), epithet (11.4%), and metonymy (1.3%). Type-token ratio analysis reveals metaphor as the most creatively elaborated category, with a type-token ratio of 0.649. The study’s primary contribution is the annotated corpus and tagset, the first documented figurative-language resource for Uzbek, directly usable for training automatic detection models. Linguopoetic interpretation demonstrates that the figurative system constructs a coherent ideological architecture organized around cross-cultural solidarity and anticolonial engagement.

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