Idioms with the Lexemes MOUTH in English and USTA in Serbian: A Cognitive Approach
Idioms with the Lexemes MOUTH in English and USTA in Serbian: A Cognitive Approach
Author(s): Jelena Lj. BiljetinaSubject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Lexis, Semantics, Comparative Linguistics, South Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Филолошки факултет Универзитета у Бањој Луци
Keywords: idioms; mouth; usta; metaphor; metonymy.
Summary/Abstract: This paper explores the idioms in the English and Serbian language, which contain the lexemes mouth and usta. The idioms are analysed from the perspective of cognitive linguistics, with the main aim of finding the cognitive mechanisms that underlie these idioms and make it possible to understand them. The idioms are grouped according to the concepts they express and are compared and contrasted in order to find similarities and differences among the idioms in the two languages. The analysis results show that there are not many similarities in the way the idioms are lexicalised in English and Serbian, but that there is significant overlapping in their conceptualisation, which leads to the conclusion that these two languages share universality in conceptualising the world around us.
Journal: Филолог – часопис за језик, књижевност и културу
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 18
- Page Range: 154-169
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English
