Kriegsmetaphorik in der politischen Sprache: eine kontrastive Studie am Beispiel von ukrainischen und deutschen Pressetexten
War metaphor in political language: A contrastive study on Ukrainian and German press texts

Summary/Abstract: The present study comparatively analyses metaphors and metaphorical phraseological units used in German and Ukrainian press texts to refer to the concept of WAR during the Russia-Ukraine war. The analysis focuses on the structural-semantic and conceptual features of the metaphors to highlight the culturally specific concepts of WAR represented by each metaphor. War metaphors are classified based on reference objects, their lexical source domains, and structural features. By contrasting German-Ukrainian lexical and phraseological pairs for semantic similarities and differences, full, partial, and zero equivalents are identified. The pragmatic functions of the selected metaphors are examined within their contextual embedding. The data consists of 205 Ukrainian and 105 German metaphors and metaphorical phraseological units collected from online dictionaries as well as digital versions of newspapers and magazines from February 2022 to December 2023.

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