CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE THROUGH METAPHORS WITH WHITE AND BLACK AS ORIGINAL DOMAINS IN SERBIAN AND SPANISH

Authors

  • Jelena Kovač The International School of Belgrade

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18485/zivjez.2017.37.1.5

Keywords:

metaphors, conceptual metaphors, white, black color, conceptualization of positive and negative, Serbian and Spanish

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to single out a certain number of expressions with white and black in Serbian and Spanish, respectively, as an illustration that the same metaphors are used in both languages ​​to denote the positive, ie the negative. The corpus is excerpted from monolingual dictionaries of Serbian and Spanish, as well as from dictionaries of Serbian and Spanish phraseology. The results of the research showed that in the Serbian language, expressions with white color in most cases have a positive connotation, while in Spanish these expressions refer mainly to negative concepts. When it comes to expressions with black color, they are used exclusively in both languages ​​to conceptualize the negative.

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Published

2017-12-30

How to Cite

Kovač, J. (2017). CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE THROUGH METAPHORS WITH WHITE AND BLACK AS ORIGINAL DOMAINS IN SERBIAN AND SPANISH. Živi Jezici: Journal for Foreign Languages and Literatures, 37(1), 111–120. https://doi.org/10.18485/zivjez.2017.37.1.5

Issue

Vol. 37 No. 1 (2017)

Section

Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

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