Contrastive Analysis of German and Czech Phraseology on the Example of the ›Arse‹ Component Cover Image

Kontrastive Phraseologie deutsch-tschechisch am Beispiel der Komponente ›Arsch‹
Contrastive Analysis of German and Czech Phraseology on the Example of the ›Arse‹ Component

Author(s): Jana Hofmannová
Subject(s): Comparative Linguistics
Published by: Odsjek za germanistiku - Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Keywords: Contrastive Analysis; Phraseology;

Summary/Abstract: According to the research portrayed in this article and the corpus developed from it, it is possible to argue that, when compared, phrases containing the component ›arse‹ in German and Czech languages exhibit 29% of equality in form and content: total equivalence in 14% and partial equivalence in15% of the cases. In the majority of the compared examples (i.e. in 39% of the cases), there is just semantical or content equivalence. The differences between the two languages are established in cases of null equivalence (27%)and phraseological false friends (5%) and amount to 32% in total.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 27
  • Page Range: 47-61
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: German