VERWENDUNG DER WERTENDEN SUBSTANTIVE IN DEN PLENARSITZUNGEN DES BUNDESTAGES
USE OF EVALUATIVE NOUNS IN THE PLENARY SESSIONS OF THE BUNDESTAG

Summary/Abstract: This work analyzes the use of evaluative nouns in the plenary sessions of the Bundestag in 2015 and 2018. These are the plenary sessions at which the budget for the coming year was discussed. The first part of the work shows how you can express an evaluation using simplices, derivatives and compounds. The explicit and implicit evaluations are considered separately. For all groups of nouns, attention is also drawn to colloquial nouns that are not typical of political discourse. Supported by examples from the corpus, it is then shown how often such nouns are used in the corpus and who uses them more often (the government or the opposition). In the last part of the work, the pragma-semantic functions of evaluative nouns are presented. It is shown what the object of evaluation can be in the analyzed corpus (the person, action or situation) and which aspect of the object being evaluated is expressed with the evaluative nouns.

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