Motiviranost značenja turskih i bosanskih somatskih frazema koji se povezuju s čovjekovim osobinama
Motivation of the meaning of Turkish and Bosnian somatic phrasemes connected to human characteristics

Summary/Abstract: There is a claim in cognitive linguistics stating that the meaning of phrasemes is motivated by human conceptual system and the primary objective of this paper is to analyze the motivation of meaning of Turkish and Bosnian somatic phrasemes connected to human characteristics. An analysis like this should contribute not only to deepening the knowledge in the field of Turkish and Bosnian phraseology but better understanding and interpretation of grammatic and semantic structures of both languages as well. It is a well-known fact that the speakers of Bosnian and Turkish language inherit similar culture, customs and beliefs. Therefore, the study compares Bosnian and Turkish somatic phrasemes connected to human characteristics trying to establish whether the speakers of these two languages, which are genetically and typologically different languages, are similar in their conceptualization of certain activities and experiences in the domain of body parts. The starting language of the analysis is Turkish which means that the somatic phrasemes are compared to the semantically close phrasemes in Bosnian language.

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