SLAVE TO LOVE – A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF LUST METAPHORS IN ENGLISH AND SERBIAN NADEŽDA SILAŠKI University of Belgrade TATJANA ĐUROVIĆ University of Belgrade Abstract: Basing our study on Lakoff‟s (1987) and Kövecses‟ (2003) classification of LUST metaphors in English, in this paper we provide a contrastive analysis of English and Serbian metaphors for LUST (the latter being compiled from the Serbian online edition of Cosmopolitan) to show the similarities in the conceptualisation of this emotion in the two languages and in particular point out its gendered nature. Key words: Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Critical Metaphor Analysis, LUST metaphors, English, Serbian, gendered metaphors. 1. Introduction As fully documented by Kövecses (2003), emotion language is rich in metaphors and other forms of figurative language. Although emotions cannot be conceptualised in a way that contradicts universal real physiology (i.e. the functioning of body in emotion), members of different cultures “can choose to conceptualise their emotions in many different ways within the constraints imposed on them by universal physiology” (Kövecses 2003:165). In other