Communicative Strategies in West and East German Historical (Biographical) Discourse
https://doi.org/10.25205/1818-7935-2024-22-3-20-33
Abstract
The article presents the results of analyzing East and West German historical biographies from the narrative point of view, exemplified by texts devoted to the same historical personalities but composed in two different parts of Germany. Within the general narrative strategy, specific strategies such as explanation, informing, self-presentation, objectification and evaluation have been singled out. They are realized by communicative tactics such as rational argumentation, personalization, describing evaluation criteria, ascribing evaluative characteristics, appealing to personal or group opinion leaders, appealing to possible past, comparison, tentativeness, attracting attention and indirect address.
About the Author
M. К. Movchan
Novosibirsk State University;
Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Marina K. Movchan, Postgraduate Student in German Philology, Specialist
Novosibirsk, Saint Petersburg
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Movchan M.К. Communicative Strategies in West and East German Historical (Biographical) Discourse. NSU Vestnik. Series: Linguistics and Intercultural Communication. 2024;22(3):20-33. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25205/1818-7935-2024-22-3-20-33
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