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Publication details [#46670]
Burkhardt, Armin. 2003. Das Parlament und seine Sprache. Studien zu Theorie und Geschichte parlamentarischer Kommunikation. [Parliament and its Language. Studies on the theory and history of parliamentary communication.] (Reihe Germanistische Linguistik 241). De Gruyter. XIII+608 pp. 
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
German
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
This study on German Parliamentary Language shows how plenary debates have become more ritualized since 1848 and progressively deteriorate into media events. The Wende debate (1982) is used as demonstration of the most significant parliamentary language phenomena: quotations, allusions, presuppositions, forms of address, catchwords, key terms, the 'inclusive we', evaluative expressions, metaphor, rhetorical figures and the play on proper names.