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The connection between language and politics is a much-studied
issue and has brought forth an abundance of literature. The present
introduction offers an initial approach to the subjects discussed
and the methods employed by recent research. Its main focus is
pragmatic in that it examines politicians' use of language in
concrete communicative situations. The volume provides a set of
instruments for analyzing political texts and illustrates its use
with reference to numerous examples. Each chapter rounds off with
indications for further reading and exercises designed to help
readers engage more profoundly with the material and embark on
their own analyses of political language use.
Hitherto, research on grammaticalization has been largely
language-typological and universalist in its leanings and as such
has been consistently gaining ground within the framework of German
studies. The present monograph proposes a theory of
grammaticalization collating various approaches and discussing them
on a broad empirical basis. The material drawn upon is largely
taken from spoken West Central German. The area covered by the
grammaticalization phenomena discussed is documented on 16 language
maps. The inclusion of diachronic analyses places the present-day
grammaticalization processes in a broader context.
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