METAPHORICAL CONCEPTS OF SOMATIC EXPRESSIONS IN GERMAN AND MACEDONIAN PHRASEOLOGY

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of certain phraseological expressions that contain parts of the human body as the main component. With the help of comparative analysis, we try to explain their use in different language environments, primarily according to the metaphorical concept. Despite the large and rich selection of phrases and phraseological expressions, we analyze somatic phrases remarkable in their structure for our analysis. The analysis of phraseological expressions in both languages, Macedonian and German, is performed according to the classification of phrases according to Bergerova (2005) and in terms of the degree of equivalence according to Brown and Krallmann (1990). We analyze the idioms which contain the parts of the human body: heart, head, and hand, to present the similarities and differences in the language pair of Macedonian and German. The discussed phraseological expressions are excerpted from certain works, novels, dictionaries, parts of the bible, etc. Applying the conceptual method of analysis, the idioms are divided into thematic and semantic fields. Most of the noted idioms (heart, hand, head) reflect the human being - his/her personal and intellectual characteristics, physical appearance, feelings, etc. Very rarely they certainly reflect other meanings in the language, which were also presented in this paper.

Keywords: idioms, somatic expressions, phraseological expressions, language pair German-Macedonian, metaphorical concepts.