PHRASEME IN DEUTSCHEN UND KROATISCHEN POLITISCHEN TEXTEN
PHRASEMES IN GERMAN AND CROATIAN POLITICAL ARTICLES

Summary/Abstract: In order to depict complex political contents, newspaper reporters often use picturesque and expressive terms. Phrasemes are especially adequate for these purposes because of their expressivity, idiomaticity, motivation as well as picturesque qualities. The aim of this research paper is to establish similarities and differences between the Croatian and German language based on the description and systematization of the Croatian and German phrasemes found in political articles by the means of contrastive analysis. The aim of the research is based on the hypotheses that (1) on account of their expressivity, phrasemes are used in political journalism in order to depict complex political contents, that (2) they mostly represent semantic groups Social World and Basic Phenomena: Man-World, as well as that (3) they fulfil the pragmatic function of the emotionally colored attitude of the speaker regarding a topic and the subsequent influence on the emotions of the reader. For the purpose of this research paper, phrasemes from the German newspapers Die Zeit and Der Spiegel and the Croatian Globus and Nacional are analyzed.

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