Die Sprachsemantik der Musik und Bilder im indischen Film „Gulaal” und im deutschen Film „Gegen die Wand“
The Semantics of Music and Images in the Indian Film „Gulaal” and in the German Film “Gegen die Wand”

Summary/Abstract: The connection between music and images manifests itself in symbolic and semantic interactions, therefore music and images contain different signs and meanings in different cultures. Not only do the films deal with music and images, but also with diverse resources of signs. Therefore, these resources of signs lead to a multimodal analysis of songs and scenes in selected Indian and German films called “Gulaal” and “Gegen die Wand”. The paper investigates the semantic role of music and images and analyzes the cultural elements in the songs and tries to explore how the music and images are multimodal linked in the films and what feelings they can trigger among people. The aim of the paper is to examine the dialectical unity of music and images in selected films and to find out the symbolic meanings of images with music in both cultures and films. Moreover, this offers the opportunity to understand the verbal images as well as the poetic language of folk music in both films. The language used in the songs proves to be critical and emotional in the German film “Gegen die Wand”, whereas ideological and political in the Indian film “Gulaal”. In both films, sign modalities carry as codes and music and language not only serve as a sign of forewarning by directly or indirectly warning the protagonists of disaster, but they also serve as signs of love, grief and anger.

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