‚Depression‘ im Lichte der konzeptuellen Metaphern im Deutschen. Eine Untersuchung am Beispiel verbaler Kollokationen

Abstract

Illness and the accompanying psychological and physical states are often hard to verbalize. For this reason and in order to appropriately describe a given state of illness one has to resort to metaphorical expressions. Based on this assumption we aim using depression as an example and deploying the Conceptual Metaphor Theory to show how psychological diseases can be conceptualised. Four main conceptual metaphors pertaining to depression have been singled out and discussed. The basis for the investigation constitute verbal collocations which have been extracted from the DWDS corpus and analysed using the Wortprofil tool.

Keywords

• depression
• conceptual metaphors
• collocations