Tělesné metafory v české lokalizaci prostoru: analýza lokačních orientátorů čerpaných z domény lidského těla
Bodily metaphors in Czech spatial localization: an analysis of locational orientators drawn from the domain of the human body

Summary/Abstract: We often use expressions expressing space in the language automatically withoutthinking about their foundations and correlations. A suitable framework for their inves ti ga tion is provided by cognitive lin guis tics through me ta pho ri cal models derivedfrom the ex pe rience of the human body moving in space. The presented text, theo re ti -cally embedded in Levinson’s subdomains of spatial language, focuses on theintrinsic fra me works of ex pres sing space in Czech. To express the location of objectsin space, the Czech language mainly uses a relative system based on the ob ser ver’spers pec tive. It rarely uses an absolute system oriented according to the cardinal di rec -tions. This study analyzes the intrinsic system of spatial localizers in Czech, focusingonly on localizers originating from the source domain.

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