ITALIAN AND SERBIAN SOMATIC EXPRESSIONS CONTRASTED
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https://doi.org/10.18485/zivjez.2025.45.1.1Keywords:
phraseology, phraseologisms, somatisms, contrastive analysis, Italian, SerbianAbstract
This paper deals with a contrastive analysis of Italian and Serbian phraseologisms that contain two somatisms (i.e. names of body parts). Although Italian and Serbian are not typologically similar languages, our initial hypothesis is that that we will identify in the corpus a significant number of absolute and/or partial equivalents, because somatic phraseology, due to the universality of bodily experience, reveals correspondences even among unrelated languages. With the aim to verify whether and to what extent the Italian somatic phraseologisms have an equivalent in Serbian and taking Italian as the source language and Serbian as the target language, we have extrapolated a corpus of more than 250 somatic phraseologisms from the general and phraseological dictionaries of two languages. Using the contrastive analysis method, we established the type of interlinguistic equivalence between 55 Italian phraseologisms containing in their lexical structure two somatisms and their Serbian equivalents. The results show that two analyzed languages, although not related, reveal more universal than idiosyncratic dimension. Since phraseologisms also carry cultural information, their interlinguistic comparison can shed light on the way of life and customs of one ethnic group and help us understand how members of two linguistic communities conceptualize reality and the phenomena.
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