Anthropocentrism in the Structure and Description of Language

Abstract

Although the connection between language, meaning and culture has been dealt with on several occasions in Serbianlinguistics, we thought it appropriate to point out several examples of the lexical-grammatical structure of the Serbian language that illustrate the anthropocentric view of relations in the world immediately surrounding man. In order to realise our intention, we opted for verb constructions in which we can see the semantic transition from the original to the secondary domains, where the original domain primarily indicates the state of affairs typical of man or living beings in general.