ON WHY ANGER CAN BE POURED, STEELED, AND BOILED: CORPUS-DRIVEN STUDY OF ANGER METAPHORS IN CROATIAN

Sa？etak The Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) proposed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and its exclusion of culture as the motivational mechanism for metaphorical expressions has given rise to other theories such as the Conventional Figurative Language Theory (CFLT) proposed by Dobrovol’skij and Piirainen (2005). The main contribution of this article is the representation of the anger- related metaphors in the selected corpus of the Croatian language according to their frequency of appearance in non-literal expressions selected via MIP procedure. “ANGER IS HEAT” and its two subversions, “ANGER IS A HOT FLUID IN A CONTAINER” and “ANGER IS FIRE” metaphors, were found to be very productive in Croatian, thus providing further evidence in favor of the universal status of these metaphors. The analysis yielded examples of the “ANGER IS HOT AIR IN A CONTAINER” metaphor as well as the use of different colors to describe anger, thus suggesting that cultural development played a role