The aim of the article is to reveal the cultural specificity of precedent phenomena functioning in British and Uzbek literary texts. One of the main purposes of the article is to demonstrate how a precedent text functions in literary texts using an artistic example. Various illustrations from different sources are given, stating that in literary texts and folklore genres, different types of precedent phenomena are given to express the perception of a social group. An attempt is made to show how a precedent phenomenon in a literary text can reflect the social worldview of people of different cultures to comprehend a certain situation. Moreover, this work aims to study the historical development of cultural linguistics and its subject matter; to deal with intertextuality and functions of precedent phenomena in the discourse; to identify the types of precedent phenomena and their features; to analyze precedent phenomena functioning in British and Uzbek literary texts as sources for culture representation.