THE DIACHRONIC APPROACH
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L’APPROCHE DIACHRONIQUE EN ANALYSE DU DISCOURS CONTRASTIVE
THE DIACHRONIC APPROACH IN CONTRASTIVE DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Author(s): Patricia von Münchow
Subject(s): Sociology of Education, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: Contrastive Discourse Analysis; diachronic approach; history textbooks; National Socialism; World War II;

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the observation that diachronic approaches are rare in discourse analysis and that synchronicity poses the problem of neglecting both the historicity of discourse production and inter-discourse, the author presents a methodological reflection on what distinguishes “geogra- phical” and diachronic approaches in Contrastive Discourse Analysis. This reflection is illustrated by some of the results of a contrastive analysis of the treatment of National Socialism and the World War II in German history textbooks between 1955 and 2016.

  • Issue Year: 70/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 81-94
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: French