Semantiska strukturer för adjektiv som betecknar smaker i svenskan och kroatiskan

Šoštarić, Margita. (2018). Semantiska strukturer för adjektiv som betecknar smaker i svenskan och kroatiskan. Diploma Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of English Language and Literature > Chair of Scandinavian Languages and Literature. [mentor Antunović, Goranka and Stanojević, Mateusz-Milan].

Preview

PDF (Swedish) - Unpublished version (manuscript) Download (1MB) | Preview

Abstract

This master thesis aims to examine the semantic structure of adjectives denoting the basic tastes in Swedish and Croatian. The thesis is construed as a contrastive study of both monolingual and parallel data for the two languages, whereas its interpretative models and main ideas are strongly based on the very tenets of cognitive linguistics. Through the analyses we gained insight about different features of the lexemes’ use: their morphosyntactic patterns, affective value, contextual traits and underlying mental concepts, which all contribute to the interpretation of the different meanings they can realise in the two languages. In the last part we focus on a single lexical pair, bitter and gorak, and analyse them using the cognitive linguistic model based on the schematic concept, as well as by performing a statistical analysis of the data using multiple correspondence analysis and logistic regression. The analyses reveal a number of interesting tendencies in the use of the adjectives, highlighting both shared and language-specific characteristics.

Actions (login required)

View Item