POLYSEMY OF THE LEXEMES HOME IN ENGLISH AND DOM IN SERBIAN2
Keywords:
polysemy, conceptual metaphor, conceptual metonymy, English, Serbian, contrastive analysisAbstract
Drawing on Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, Johnson 1987, Lakoff 1987) and Conceptual Metonymy Theory (Radden and Kövecses 1999, Radden 2000, Barcelona 2000) the paper presents a contrastive analysis of the lexemes home in English and dom in Serbian. The analysis of the material taken from monolingual dictionaries of English and Serbian (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Macmillan English Dictionary, Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary and Rečnik srpskoga jezika) shows numerous similarities between the metaphoric and metonymic extensions of meaning of the given lexemes that may be attributed to the common European cultural frame which English and Serbian appear to share. Specifically, two corresponding metonymic extensions and one metaphorical extension have been found in both languages. Some minor crosslinguistic differences have also been noted in the ways in which metaphors operate in English, but a more detailed corpus analysis of the whole lexical field of house/kuća is required in order to support the conclusions reached in this paper.
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