| Abstract [eng] |
The object of the research is the linguistic expression of the crisis concept in Lithuanian and German. The aim of the research – to reveal and compare the peculiarities of crisis conceptualization in Lithuanian and German public discourse. The Lithuanian and German public discourse of the last two decades was chosen for the research. The main research method is the analysis of conceptual metaphors based on the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor. Different research provisions of linguistic traditional concepts are combined and customary CMT toolset is supplemented with the newer Deliberate Metaphor Theory. The latter method helps to address conceptual crisis metaphors not only on thought and linguistic levels, but also in discourse. Defensive statements of the thesis: 1. The crisis concept in Lithuanian and German public discourse is verbalized by identical conceptual metaphors, encompassing the entire human perception of the hierarchical structure of the world; however, metaphorical expressions reflect differences in the features of the source domain. 2. The minimum of the crisis concept features reflected in the meanings of lexical names, generalize fixed crisis images in metaphorical expressions. 3. Conceptual crisis metaphors, reconstructed in public discourse, confirm the relation between three distinct functions of a metaphor: cognitive, linguistic and communicative. |
