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The embodied and the cultural in the conceptualization of pitch space in Croatian

Sanja Kiš Žuvela
E-mail: skiszuvela@muza.hr
Academy of Music, University of Zagreb

Ana Ostroški Anić
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Sažetak: Most conceptual metaphors that conceptualize musical pitch rely heavily on human perception, images and experience structured through spatial and orientation image schemas such as the schema of VERTIC...

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The polysemy of verbs expressing the concept SIT in English, Croatian and German

Dubravka Vidaković Erdeljić
E-mail: dvidakovic@ffos.hr
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Sažetak: This paper presents the findings of a corpus-based research of the posture verb SIT in English, Croatian and German. In line with the central tenets of cognitive linguistics we argue that figurative m...