Original scientific paper
Trumpets at the Parkuša Crosswalk: Cognitive Metaphorization of Son's Affection in My Mother by Goran Samardžić
Vedad Spahić
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, University of Tuzla, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Indira Šabić
orcid.org/0000-0003-0489-3099
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, University of Tuzla, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
The authors approach the poem My Mother by Goran Samardžić from the perspective of cognitive metaphorization, to point out the individual and collective experience resulting from human interactions with the extralinguistic world. By decoding cognitive processes, they identify metaphorical mappings and mergers and metonymic extensions, starting from basic concepts representing the embodied cultural and personal experience of the lyrical subject. The body and the senses are engaged in the realization of metaphorical language which poetizes filial love. In addition to the basic cognitive concept that mother is the source, the poem is upgraded with metaphors that are conceptualized in perceiving and projecting the lyrical subject in the categories of space and time through interaction with everything that fills space/time as a family and existential inventory. Samardžić's lavish metaphorical and metonymic extensions in this poem are based on concepts: life is a vertical line (good is up and bad/death is down), the body is a container/machine, sound is fury, death is a thief, son is a possessor, part for a whole, whole for a part. Paying homage to the mother as the originator and source, Samardžić paid a warm tribute to the otherwise rich Bosnian body of literary works that nurture the mother's cult, poetically validating cultural experiences and perceived family schemes.
Keywords
cognitive processes; conceptual metonimy; the mother; filial love; the theory of conceptual metaphor
Hrčak ID:
254105
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Publication date:
1.3.2021.
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