Naslov
Metaphorical Extensions of Perception Verbs in English and Croatian: A Comparative Analysis

Autori
Cvitić, Leon

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Ocjenski radovi, diplomski rad, diplomski

Fakultet
Filozofski fakultet

Mjesto
Zagreb

Datum
07.07

Godina
2021

Stranica
33

Mentor
Stanojević, Mateusz-Milan

Ključne riječi
verbs of perception, metaphor, language and cognition, structure and meaning, polysemy

Sažetak
In recent years, universalist claims regarding the proposed hierarchy of verbs of perception, which suggest the primacy of verbs of seeing in terms of assuming meanings from the conceptual domain of cognition, have been faced with strong criticism. Namely, while it can hardly be argued that our experiences differ on the level of the stimuli we are exposed to, the linguistic data from languages across the world indicate that the way in which we interpret these experiences is anything but universal. The reasons for this disparity, while still in need of further investigation, seem to stem from the fact that the differences in how experience is interpreted and, subsequently, lexicalised by speakers of different languages might significantly depend on the differences in the socio-cultural background of the speakers. It is therefore the aim of this thesis to look at different ways in which the speakers of Croatian, and those of English utilise their sensory apparatus in order to interpret the world around them. To do so, a corpus analysis of metaphorical extensions of Croatian "vidjeti" and "čuti", as opposed to English "see" and "hear", respectively, was conducted. The results obtained from the analysis indicate that Croatian and English are quite similar in this respect, although with a few significant differences. These findings should therefore prove helpful in shedding further light on the differences and similarities between the two languages, as well as in testing the validity of certain claims that have been made so far about the nature of verbs of perception.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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