METAPHORIC MEANINGS OF ENGLISH ADJECTIVES SHARP AND BLUNT AND SERBIAN ADJECTIVES OŠTAR AND TUP IN THE COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE
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This paper analyzes the derivation of metaphoric senses of English adjectives sharp and blunt and Serbian adjectives oštar and tup. The aim of the analysis is to identify conceptual metaphors motivating the derivation of the given senses, i.e. to reveal abstract notions conceptualized through the presence or absence of sharpness as the source domain including the establishment of similarities and differences between the two languages in terms of these conceptualizations. The analysis results have shown that there is a considerable variety of abstract notions conceptualized through sharpness as the source domain. Furthermore, there is a great similarity between English and Serbian taking into consideration domains understood relying on the given physical quality of objects. Some of the conceptual metaphors identified in the semantic dispersion of the analyzed adjectives in both languages are highly productive in the sense that a significant number of meanings have been derived on the basis of them.
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