The article presents a linguistic and extra-linguistic characteristic of one of the qualities of the school educational discourse of the Third Reich – its militaristic quality, which has been singled out through the analysis of fiction films in the German language.
The article explores the emotional and evaluative function of metaphor actualizing the military realia in the speech practices of French soldiers in the early twentieth century. The author shows that the use of metaphors in professional communication is largely conditioned by the current psychological and extra-linguistic context and by the connotative meaning of the linguistic sign as well.
