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Makale Özeti:
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Many people would argue that metaphor is a
characteristic of extraordinary rather than ordinary speech.
However, Lakoff and Johnson (2003: 8) strongly disagree,
claiming that our conceptual system is fundamentally
metaphorical in its nature. Moreover, metaphors do not only
shape our communication but the way we think or act.
Occurring primarily in thought, metaphors are grounded in
culture; hence they serve as a valuable resource for crosscultural
linguistic research. This paper aims to study
similarities and differences of the English and Croatian
perspectives on love in terms of a journey. For the purpose
of this research, Lakoff and Johnson’s eight metaphorical
linguistic expressions of the LOVE IS A JOURNEY
conceptual metaphor from Metaphors We Live By (2003)
were used in a survey and offered to 28 native Croatian
speakers and former English language and literature
students majoring in the field of translation studies who
were asked to provide their Croatian equivalents. After the
survey was conducted, the research has shown the great
similarity of metaphorical linguistic expressions in English
and Croatian language. However, it has shown that, in order
to maintain the same effect, sometimes different tenses or
voice perspectives have to be used. Furthermore, it has
shown the existence of the same metaphorical expression in
the respective languages, yet used within different
conceptual metaphors. Moreover, the research has shown
not only interliguistic but also intralinguistic differences, i.e.
synonimical options that the Croatian language has due to
close geographical, historical, cultural and linguistic
contact with Serbian language. In conclusion, it has been
proved that even though two languages might share the same
conceptual metaphor, the actual linguistic expressions
underlying the conceptual metaphor may be coined on the
basis of cultural-ideological differences, thus referring to
metaphors being both cognitive as well as cultural entities.
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