Naslov
Spatial language: a contrastive analysis of the English over and Croatian preko

Autori
Tuđman Vuković, Nina

Izvornik
Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia (0039-3339) XLVII-XLVIII (2002); 507-522

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
kontrastivna analiza; semantika; kognitivna lingvistika; značenjske mreže prijedloga
(contrastive analysis; semantics; cognitive linguistics; prepositional networks)

Sažetak
This paper is based on the assumption that polysemous words designating spatial relations are best described in terms of lexical networks of interrelated senses in the framework of cognitive semantics. An overview is given of existing cognitive semantic studies of over and a similar network analysis is carried out for the conceptually related Croatian spatial preposition preko. The two words are compared on the basis of image schematic representations. It is by contrasting related image schemas from a different language that some properties of conceptual relationships within the lexical network in question may be illuminated.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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