Open AccessPolitischer Sprachgebrauch
Author(s) -
Thomas Niehr
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
lubelskie materiały neofilologiczne/lublin studies in modern languages and literature
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2450-4580
pISSN - 0137-4699
DOI - 10.17951/lsmll.2021.45.1.75-85
Subject(s) - politics , variety (cybernetics) , linguistics , sociology , term (time) , order (exchange) , epistemology , the republic , political science , social science , philosophy , computer science , law , artificial intelligence , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , economics
In this article, special features of political communication are presented. Researchers agree that political language is not a technical language or variety in the traditional sense. Nevertheless, there have been attempts to define the characteristics of political language use more precisely. Such attempts originate from the linguistic subfield of „politolinguistics“, whose history is briefly described in order to outline the methodological advances of this discipline. Finally, the article provides an overview of important research results in politolinguistics and of discourses that are and have been of long-term importance for the history of communication in the Federal Republic of Germany.