Dichotomous Structures: The Metaphors Knowledge is Light and Ignorance is Darkness in English and Serbian = Dichotome Strukturen: Die Metaphern Wissen ist Licht und Unwissenheit ist Dunkelheit im Englischen und Serbischen

Pápista, Zsolt (2019) Dichotomous Structures: The Metaphors Knowledge is Light and Ignorance is Darkness in English and Serbian = Dichotome Strukturen: Die Metaphern Wissen ist Licht und Unwissenheit ist Dunkelheit im Englischen und Serbischen. In: Languages and Cultures in Time and Space. Újvidéki Egyetem Bölcsészettudományi Kar, Újvidék, pp. 125-141. ISBN 9788660655426

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze how image-schematic structures build the foundation of the conceptual metaphors KNOWLEDGE IS LIGHT and IGNORANCE IS DARKNESS in English and Serbian idioms with the components Eng. light and dark, as well as Serb. svetlo(st) and mrak / tama. Since the source domains in question, namely LIGHT and DARKNESS, as well as their target domain counterparts, KNOWLEDGE and IGNORANCE, represent bipolar concepts, it can be hypothesized that the image-schematic structures underlying the idioms would reflect these conceptual dichotomies. The results show that there are different ways in which image-schemas may lend structure to the metaphorical interaction between bipolar source and target domains. These conceptual dichotomies can manifest themselves in two ways: on the one hand, as different constellations of schemas along a temporal dimension in a single schematic structure, or, on the other hand, as two mutually incompatible alternative structures differing in one or more specific schemas.

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