Image schemas and the semantics of Serbian sports terminology: An innovative approach
- Autores: Janić Mitić A.A.1, Veličković M.V.1
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- University of Niš
- Edição: Volume 29, Nº 3 (2025)
- Páginas: 586-606
- Seção: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2687-0088/article/view/332248
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2687-0088-43843
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/BTGKOH
- ID: 332248
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The terminology used in specialized areas of study is an essential part of communication among people active in those fields. However, variations in terminology across languages and cultures can hinder communication. This paper aims to outline the potential of using image schema clusters in analyzing (Serbian/English) sports terminology. The image schemas of FORCE <F>, PATH <P>, LINK <L>, and BALANCE <B>, their scalar values, and their corresponding specifiers (<end path>, <cycle>, <up>, etc.) were used to annotate and analyze a group of 140 Serbian language sports terms. An important part of the annotation process was the parsing of the event/movement to determine the number of individual segments included in the performance of each and ascribing to it specific schemas, their level of scalarity, and the appropriate specifiers. The focus was on the dynamic mental simulations of movement in sports, which are described as dynamic events that depict the athlete’s body in motion through time and space. The analysis addressed the issue of overcoming non-literal descriptions in sports terminology in favor of conveying the abstract nature of the underlying structures, thus rendering them universal. The findings indicate that the proposed image schema identification protocol can be used to identify the image schema clusters and their scalar values that determine the terms in the corpus. The study contributes to the achievement of transparency and clarity in sports terminology by precisely determining and formulating the meaning of concepts related to specific sports terms, which is essential for unimpeded communication in this area.
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Aleksandra Janić Mitić
University of Niš
Email: aleksandra.janic.mitic@filfak.ni.ac.rs
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7168-3089
PhD, is Associate Professor at the Department of Serbian Language and Literature of the Faculty of Philosophy in the Universiyu of Niš and is currently the department chair. Her research interests include contemporary Serbian, cognitive linguistics, contrastive linguistics, lexicology, and morphology. She was a member of project Structuring Concept Generation with the Help of Metaphor, Analogy and Schematicity - SCHEMAS (Ministry of Science, Technological Development, and Innovation of Republic of Serbia, Grant No. 7715934) from 2022 until 2025.
Niš, Republic of SerbiaMarta Veličković
University of Niš
Autor responsável pela correspondência
Email: marta.velickovic@filfak.ni.ac.rs
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6039-9373
PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Department of English at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš. Her research interests include (applied) cognitive linguistics, translation studies, and contrastive linguistics. She was a member of project Structuring Concept Generation with the Help of Metaphor, Analogy and Schematicity - SCHEMAS (Ministry of Science, Technological Development, and Innovation of Republic of Serbia, Grant No. 7715934) from 2022 until 2025. She is currently the co-editor of The SASE Journal, the journal of the Serbian Association for the Study of English.
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