Terminology related to the raising of domestic animals in the Ruthenian language of Vojvodina (cognitive linguistic approach)

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The monograph Terminology related to the raising of domestic animals in the Ruthenian language of Vojvodina (cognitive linguistic approach) is partially based on the author's PhD dissertation which was defended at the Faculty of Philosophy of Novi Sad, Serbia and awarded for the best doctoral thesis written on a minority-related topic in 2023, by the Centre for Research on Minorities at the University of Insubria in Italy. Written and defended in the Vojvodinian Ruthenian language, the dissertation is particularly significant since it is the first of that kind. Its aim is to research the Ruthenian language fragments related to the conceptualisation and categorisation of domestic animals. An interdisciplinary framework of Cognitive Linguistic theories and methodologies were employed, including conceptual metaphor analysis, categorization, and association experiments.

This publication reveals prototypical members of domestic animal categories in the contemporary world image in the Ruthenian language of Vojvodina which is reconstructed through the results of association experiments. Considering the levels of research that show a petrified image of the world, manifested at the level of nominations and phraseologisms, the shift of certain members of these categories was followed. In that sense, a horse, a cow and a dog changed their places in categories, which also shows a change in human needs from domestic animals from labor-related assistance and providers of food to people's best and and most loyal friends. [Publisher's text]

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