Abstract:

Musical expressions have been preserved in various forms for centuries, so they can rightfully be considered as a significant source of knowledge of the lifestyle, spiritual culture and aesthetic values of man. In the metaphorical language, especially phraseology, we, therefore, also note the appearance of phraseological units containing a musical component. This article compares Croatian and Slovak phraseological units which, as a component, have a name of the most widespread membranophone musical instruments, i.e. the terms of bubanj, doboš, talambas and bubon. The collected phrasemes are analysed from the semantic and etymological aspect. Special attention is paid to the function which the researched components have in shaping the overall imagery of the phrasemes. In the contrastive analysis of the selected part of the pheaseological funds of the two related languages, an important place is given to the determination of the degree of pharseological equivalence.

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