Rationality and Emotion in the Language of Economy Based on Selected Examples of Vocabulary from the Economic Press at the End of the 19th Century Cover Image

Sachlichkeit und Emotion in der Wirtschaftssprache anhand ausgewählter Wortschatzbeispiele aus der Wirtschaftspresse des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts
Rationality and Emotion in the Language of Economy Based on Selected Examples of Vocabulary from the Economic Press at the End of the 19th Century

Author(s): Grażyna Strzelecka
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, 19th Century
Published by: Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT – Wrocławskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe
Keywords: emotions; economic language; economic press; 19th and 20th century

Summary/Abstract: The article presents examples of vocabulary in quotations from the economic press from 1885–1886, which on the one hand show the rationality of the language of economy, but on the other hand emotions. It is – as it was hundred years later – a time of economic prosperity and of impending crisis. For comparison, examples from the press of the 20th century (1995–1996) are cited to show similarities and development of the language of economy during this period. Emotions have always accompanied economic processes, its successes and failures, for over 100 years.

  • Issue Year: 17/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 291-302
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: German