Cleanliness is next to godliness? Clean and dirty metaphors in English and Serbian
Abstract
The current paper explores how the bodily experience of physical cleanliness is
used in reasoning about abstract notions in English and Serbian. The focus is on
adjectives and nouns in the two languages describing the state of cleanliness or its
absence and the way they extend their meaning into abstract domains. Analysis is
performed within the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory, with examples
collected from representative linguistic corpora of English and Serbian. Due to
the high presence of cleanliness in ordinary experience, it serves as the source
domain for structuring various abstract concepts, which predominantly pertain
to morality. The concluding part discusses identified conceptual mappings and
contrasts English and Serbian with respect to these.
Keywords:
conceptual metaphor / cleanliness / embodiment / English / SerbianSource:
BELLS - Belgrade English language and literature studies, 2012, 4, 27-40Collections
Institution/Community
Mašinski fakultetTY - JOUR AU - Vesić Pavlović, Tijana PY - 2012 UR - https://machinery.mas.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4195 AB - The current paper explores how the bodily experience of physical cleanliness is used in reasoning about abstract notions in English and Serbian. The focus is on adjectives and nouns in the two languages describing the state of cleanliness or its absence and the way they extend their meaning into abstract domains. Analysis is performed within the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory, with examples collected from representative linguistic corpora of English and Serbian. Due to the high presence of cleanliness in ordinary experience, it serves as the source domain for structuring various abstract concepts, which predominantly pertain to morality. The concluding part discusses identified conceptual mappings and contrasts English and Serbian with respect to these. T2 - BELLS - Belgrade English language and literature studies T1 - Cleanliness is next to godliness? Clean and dirty metaphors in English and Serbian EP - 40 SP - 27 VL - 4 DO - 10.18485/bells.2012.4.2 ER -
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Vesić Pavlović, T.. (2012). Cleanliness is next to godliness? Clean and dirty metaphors in English and Serbian. in BELLS - Belgrade English language and literature studies, 4, 27-40. https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2012.4.2
Vesić Pavlović T. Cleanliness is next to godliness? Clean and dirty metaphors in English and Serbian. in BELLS - Belgrade English language and literature studies. 2012;4:27-40. doi:10.18485/bells.2012.4.2 .
Vesić Pavlović, Tijana, "Cleanliness is next to godliness? Clean and dirty metaphors in English and Serbian" in BELLS - Belgrade English language and literature studies, 4 (2012):27-40, https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2012.4.2 . .