Слике у речима. Иконичност лексике српског језика у контексту словенске митологије: метафоре живота и смрти
Images in Words. Lexical Iconicity of the Serbian Language in the Context of Slavic Mythology: Metaphors of Life and Death

Author(s): Ivana Bašić
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Lexis, Historical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Summary/Abstract: Images in Words. Lexical Iconicity of the Serbian Language in the Context of Slavic Mythology: Metaphors of Life and Dead is the first study of the relationship between lexical iconicity and the linguistic world picture in the Serbian language. The research is based on the premises that language is a specific representation of the inner form of thinking, which is indicative of a particular world-view; that semantic systems change in time, but in that passage from complex to categorical thinking the traces of complex thinking stay preserved in lexical iconicity and reveal themselves in the articulation of repressed semantic components in the given context; that not only metaphor and metonymy play an important role in the transformations of semantic systems as mechanisms of understanding and transposing ideas from one field of knowledge to another, but also iconicity and the existence of a number of universal imaginative schemes.

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