Gedenken auf Deutsch. Theoretische Überlegungen und
Analysen einer Erklärung und zweier präsidialer Reden
zum 8. Mai
Commemoration in German. Theoretical reflections and analyses of one declaration and two
presidential speeches on May 8th
Author(s): Armin BurkhardtSubject(s): Sociolinguistics, Politics and communication, Stylistics
Published by: Instytut Germanistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Commemorate; speech act type; memorial speech; textual illocution; text type; text components; commemoration of the dead; consensual; integrative; defeat vs. liberation; (collective) guilt; victim;
Summary/Abstract: Considerations on the grammar and semantics of the German verb gedenken[commemorate] lead to a discussion and a typological definition of GEDENKEN as a speech actand to a textlinguistic-rhetorical characterization of the commemorative speech as a subtype of thegenus demonstrativum. After a deductive determination of the text components that, consideringGerman history, are to be expected in a commemorative speech on the anniversary of the end ofWorld War II, an official government statement from 1965 and two presidential commemorativespeeches from 1985 and 1995 are analyzed as examples. The aim is to examine to what extent thesecomponents are reflected in them, how their size and relationship to one another change over timeand which other lexical-semantic means are typical for the design of these texts.
Journal: tekst i dyskurs – text und diskurs
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 17
- Page Range: 257-302
- Page Count: 46
- Language: German