KONTRASTIVNA ANALIZA STRUČNOJEZIČNIH KOLOKACIJA S IMENICAMA KUĆA I HOUSE U DISKURSU ARHITEKTURE

Abstract

This paper is dedicated to a qualitative contrastive analysis of specialized collocations with the nouns kuća and house in architectural discourse. Binary collocations were extracted from specialized representative comparable corpora of Croatian and English architectural texts. The goal is to analyse similarities and differences in collocational patterning in architecture in these two languages with special emphasis on the role of the macrocontext as a cognitive configuration of professional knowledge networks. The analysis confirms the idiosyncratic nature of collocational patterning even in the professional language context, i.e., incongruent ways of conceptualization and lexical realization. Specialized collocations in this segment of architectural terminology are mainly created by syntagmatic co-occurrences of general language lexemes. Their semantic profiling and transparency primarily result from the macrocontext. It acts as a cognitive mechanism that governs the processes of syntagmatisation, lexicalisation and terminologisation. The analysis is theoretically grounded in the contemporary approach to specialist languages.