Naslov
Landscape Named in Our Own Image

Autori
Brozović Rončević, Dunja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Movements, Narratives and Landscapes

Mjesto i datum
Zadar, Hrvatska, 05.06.2015. - 07.06.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
landscape ; place-names ; body

Sažetak
This paper focuses on the analysis of the linguistic and cultural construction of the physical environment upon some universal bodily metaphors. Within the framework of cognitive linguistics and cognitive anthropology, metaphors are viewed as models through which humans conceptualize and perceive the world around them. Since our conceptual system, which is largely metaphorical, plays a central role in defining our reality, humans spontaneously use metaphors in describing real-world spatial relations. We ground our views on the assumption that there are some universal patterns by which humans perceive and apprehend geographical reality. Our aim is to show how people project their own body images in naming geographical features of their natural environment. The same bodily metaphors are independently used in various, genetically unrelated languages in order to name similar geographical objects and spatial relations. Those metaphors are commonly used in geographical terminology, and they often serve as the basis for metaphorically motivated place names in the onymization process. Since the sense of place plays a great role in human life, narratives sometimes are constructed upon those place names that are shaped according to bodily metaphors. Relevant linguistic and onomastic data from various languages (including non-Indo-European languages) will be analyzed and compared with the aim of establishing which bodily metaphors used in the shaping and naming of our geographical environment can be perceived as universal, and which are culturally or linguistically conditioned.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Etnologija i antropologija

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