HEAD AS A CONTAINER IN ENGLISH AND SERBIAN – A COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE
HEAD AS A CONTAINER IN ENGLISH AND SERBIAN – A COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE

Summary/Abstract: Within the theoretical framework of Conceptual Metaphor and Metonymy Theory in this paper we aim to establish the ways the container image schema is used in the conceptualisation of head/glava in English and Serbian to see whether these conceptualisations are shared in the two languages or, alternatively, whether they manifest any cross-conceptual and cross-linguistic differences. The corpus of our analysis has been compiled from various monolingual and bilingual English and Serbian dictionaries as well as dictionaries of idioms and idiomatic expressions in both languages. The main hypothesis of the paper is the following: since the mind is embodied and human concepts are crucially shaped by our bodies and brains, we expect to find little difference in the conceptualisation of head/glava as a container between English and Serbian. However, since the mind is also enculturated, i.e. culturally constructed and is filtered through specific languages, we hypothesise that the differences will mainly manifest not at the conceptual level, but in the linguistic instantiations in the two languages.

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