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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, Tatjana, author.

Series:

Compact.

Compact

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germanic languages--Social aspects.

Germanic languages.

Languages in contact--Europe.

Languages in contact.

Europe--Languages--Foreign words and phrases.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (40 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hamburg, Germany : Anchor Academic Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 19, 2014).

ISBN:

3-95489-708-3

OCLC:

871779762