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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788000303321

Autore

Kennedy Tatjana

Titolo

Anglicism usage in German political language : methoden, verfahren und tools / / Tatjana Kennedy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hamburg, Germany : , : Anchor Academic Publishing, , 2014

℗2014

ISBN

3-95489-708-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (40 p.)

Collana

Compact

Disciplina

409.4

Soggetti

Germanic languages - Social aspects

Languages in contact - Europe

Europe Languages Foreign words and phrases

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Anglicism Usage in German Political Language; List of Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical Framework; 2.1. The German Green Party: Ideology, Target Group and Communication Techniques; 2.2. Discourse analysis: Political Rhetoric; 2.3. Contact linguistics; 3. Empirical Analysis of "Der Grüne Neue Gesellschaftsvertrag"; 3.1. The Framework; 3.2. Anglicisms within the Green's Language; 4. A Green Language?; 5. Summary and Conclusion; 6. Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Every four years on Election Day, German citizens make their way to the ballot boxes to vote for the political party and candidate they would favour entering the government. What these voters are not aware of, is that whether their choice has resulted from political conviction or not, the set of political attitudes that found their favour is the result of a complex communication strategy the individual party's carried out long beforehand. Simply put: through political language, parties exercise power. This study looks at the mechanisms behind the communication strategy the Greens (BÜNDNIS90/DI