ACADEMIC RESEARCH IN MODERN SCIENCE International scientific-online conference 196 PRAGMATIC FEATURES OF DYSPHEMISMS IN FRENCH Nilufar Juraeva Teacher of the Department of French Philology Bukhara State University n.s.juraeva@buxdu.uz https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8059845 Annotation: This article will talk about the concept of dysphemism, the feedback of linguistic scholars on this concept, the pragmatic features of dysphemisms in the French language. It has also been suggested that the phenomenon of dysphemia, its characteristic feature, dysphemia is a discursive phenomenon, and dysphemism is both a linguistic and a speech phenomenon. Keywords: dysphemism, euphemism, dysphemia, cacophenism, orthophemism. Each language has bypassed words that are either optional or non- optional. Most of them are words that are considered “unpleasant”, “offensive” by the speaker, the rest of the audience. Today, the number of words that express a negative meaning in themselves is growing. This leads to the need to study the essence of the concept, the reasons for its appearance, which in linguistics is called “dysphemism”. There are several reasons for speech rudeness. Sociologists and sociolinguists note that “deepening stratification between social groups in different areas of life, conflict of interest, the existence of one group’s desire to dominate another group” led to a roughening of speech [Kvaskova, 2016:353]. Today, there is no complete and absolute theory about the general Laws of the formation and application of dysphemisms. Linguistic scientist A.N.Rezanova explains the reason for the in-depth lack of study of dysphemisms as “a concept contrary to moral norms”. Despite the fact that dysphemisms are common in oral speech, their use in literary speech is prohibited, which does not affect their study. The most important aspects of this phenomenon, namely “dysphemic pragmatics – causes of origin, socio-historical and psychological distribution, lead to the fact that they remain unexplored” [Rezanova, 2008:3]. In the view of scholar L.V Kvaskova, “a detailed study of linguistic and functional nature of negative-looking words to counter their origins in oral speech” [Kvaskova, 2016:353]. To interpret the term “dysphemism”, we refer to lexicographic sources: