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Publication details [#26832]

Schäffner, Christina and Peter Porsch. 1993. Meeting the challenge on the path to democracy: discursive strategies in government declarations in Germany and the former GDR. Discourse & Society 4 (1) : 33–55.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discursive practice | metaphor | political language | text analysis | text type

Language as a subject

German

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper examines sample texts of the 'government declaration' text-type produced in the ex-GDR and in the united Germany for similarities and differences in concepts that reflect aims of political actions, in agents performing these actions and in textual superstructure.