Politischer Sprachgebrauch

Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature, vol. 45, pp. 75

Abstract

In this article, special features of political communication are presented. Researchers agree that political language is not a technical language or variety in the traditional sense. Nevertheless, there have been attempts to define the characteristics of political language use more precisely. Such attempts originate from the linguistic subfield of „politolinguistics“, whose history is briefly described in order to outline the methodological advances of this discipline. Finally, the article provides an overview of important research results in politolinguistics and of discourses that are and have been of long-term importance for the history of communication in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Authors 1

1. Thomas Niehr corresponding Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   RWTH Aachen University Institut für Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft Eilfschornsteinstr. 15 52062 Aachen