The role of path metaphors in conceptualising life in English and Serbian: A corpus-based analysis
Apstrakt
The aim of this paper is to obtain insight into crosslinguistic similarities and
differences in English and Serbian regarding the conceptualisation of life via
components related to motion along a path. This is accomplished by studying
the extended meanings of a set of English and Serbian lexemes associated with
departure, passage through intermediate path points, arrival and the space along
which the motion occurs, using randomly selected examples from the representative corpora of the two languages. Since a common focus in cognitive linguistic studies has been on the metaphor life is a journey, we show that there
is an equally important case of life being conceptualised as a trajector in both
languages, which testifies to the phenomenon of metaphor duality. In addition,
the direction of the movement also serves as an important factor in structuring
various aspects of life and its related concepts.
Ključne reči:
Path / life / conceptual metaphors / contrastive analysis / English / SerbianIzvor:
Brno Studies in English, 2018, 44, 1, 63-82Kolekcije
Institucija/grupa
Mašinski fakultetTY - JOUR AU - Vesić Pavlović, Tijana PY - 2018 UR - https://machinery.mas.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4178 AB - The aim of this paper is to obtain insight into crosslinguistic similarities and differences in English and Serbian regarding the conceptualisation of life via components related to motion along a path. This is accomplished by studying the extended meanings of a set of English and Serbian lexemes associated with departure, passage through intermediate path points, arrival and the space along which the motion occurs, using randomly selected examples from the representative corpora of the two languages. Since a common focus in cognitive linguistic studies has been on the metaphor life is a journey, we show that there is an equally important case of life being conceptualised as a trajector in both languages, which testifies to the phenomenon of metaphor duality. In addition, the direction of the movement also serves as an important factor in structuring various aspects of life and its related concepts. T2 - Brno Studies in English T1 - The role of path metaphors in conceptualising life in English and Serbian: A corpus-based analysis EP - 82 IS - 1 SP - 63 VL - 44 DO - 10.5817/BSE2018-1-4 ER -
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Vesić Pavlović, T.. (2018). The role of path metaphors in conceptualising life in English and Serbian: A corpus-based analysis. in Brno Studies in English, 44(1), 63-82. https://doi.org/10.5817/BSE2018-1-4
Vesić Pavlović T. The role of path metaphors in conceptualising life in English and Serbian: A corpus-based analysis. in Brno Studies in English. 2018;44(1):63-82. doi:10.5817/BSE2018-1-4 .
Vesić Pavlović, Tijana, "The role of path metaphors in conceptualising life in English and Serbian: A corpus-based analysis" in Brno Studies in English, 44, no. 1 (2018):63-82, https://doi.org/10.5817/BSE2018-1-4 . .