POJMOVNI MEHANIZMI NASTANKA PROŠIRENIH ZNAČENJA GLAGOLA JEDENJA I PIJENJA U ENGLESKOM JEZIKU I NJIHOVI EKVIVALENTI U SRPSKOM
VERBS OF EATING AND DRINKING AS A SOURCE OF METAPHOR IN ENGLISH AND IN SERBIAN

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses verbs of eating and drinking in English and in Serbian from cognitive linguistics perspective in order to point to cognitive mechanism(s) leading to the extended meanings of these verbs. The corpus in the paper consists of verbs of eating and drinking taken from the Harry Potter novels (from their original text in English and from their translations into Serbian). The verbs in the corpus belong to verbs whose primary meaning refers to eating/drinking, and which extend their primary meaning to other concepts. The goal of the analysis is to point to cognitive mechanisms that underlie the meaning extensions. The English verbs are contrasted with their translation counterparts in Serbian in order to establish to what extent the lexicalization and conceptualization of the meaning extensions overlap in the two languages. The analysis shows that the verbs extend their primary meaning mostly by the mechanism of conceptual metaphor, less often by the mechanism of conceptual metonymy. The analysis also shows that conceptual mechanisms in English and Serbian overlap in most aspects related to the concepts of eating and drinking.

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