Zwischen Tönen und Texten: Eine kontrastive Analyse der Verwendung von musikalischen Fachwörtern in nichtfachlichen Kontexten in deutschen und tschechischen Medien

Abstract

The topic of this article is selected musical terms that are used metaphorically in German and Czech journalism. The largest German-language corpus, DeReKo (Mannheim) and the Czech National Corpus (Český národní korpus) serve as the material basis for this study. The analysis focuses on the contexts in which the examined terms are used metaphorically, as well as the concepts they refer to. At the same time, the functions that these technical terms fulfil in their respective context are examined. A significant portion of the article also includes a contrastive aspect by comparing the use of these technical terms in their metaphorical sense in German journalistic texts with their use in Czech texts. This allows for the identification of similarities and differences in the use of metaphors in both languages. Finally, a frequency analysis provides insights into how widespread this phenomenon is in the German and Czech media. The study takes into account not only current usage but also temporal development to identify changes over the years.

Keywords

• musical terminology
• metaphor
• specialist context
• contrastive analysis