LOVE IN GERMAN AND SERBIAN IDIOMS

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to carry through a comparative study of somatic idioms in the semantic field of LOVE in German and Serbian language, on the basis of the cognitive and conceptual linguistic theory. The somatisms will be examined from the interlingual German-Serbian aspect, with German being the source language, and Serbian the target language. The corpus has been excerpted from the relevant monolingual and bilingual idiom dictionaries.

Keywords

• Phraseologismen, Emotion, Liebe, kontrastive Analyse, konzeptuelle Metapher