Relocating Germanness : discursive disunity in unified Germany

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Relocating Germanness : discursive disunity in unified Germany

edited by Patrick Stevenson and John Theobald

Macmillan , St. Martin's Press, 2000

  • : uk
  • : us

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The "New Germany" has been described as "unified but not united". In spite of political and economic unification in 1990, the social divisions between east and west Germans are as wide as ever. The contributions to this book explore the cultural and linguistic reasons for this continuing disharmony, drawing on and analyzing a wide range of evidence: from television news, dramas and talk shows, newspapers, novels and cabaret, to oral histories and job interviews.

Table of Contents

  • A decade of cultural disunity - diverging discourses and communicative dissonance in 1990s Germany, P. Stevenson & J. Theobold
  • the New Germany on the screen - conflicting discourses on German television, U.H. Meinhof
  • "Go East, Young Man..." gendered representations of identity in television dramas about "East Germany", K. Horschelmann
  • diverging discourses of East German "Kabarett" - cultural and linguistic "misbehaviour", J. McNally
  • can oil unite with water? Braun and Bisupek on German disunity, G.T. Reifarth
  • united consumers? advertising discourse and constructions of German identity, H. Kelly Holmes
  • ideological practices in East and West German media - reporting the Thuringian miners' hunger strike, S. Schrabback
  • disgraceland GDR - locating the admirable amongst the abject, J. Theobold
  • narratives of the GDR - what parents tell their children, B. Linklater
  • changing communicative practices amongst East Germans, P. Auer
  • arriving at identities - positioning of speakers in German TV talkshows, G. Liebscher
  • "Es ist so: jedenfalls erscheint es mir so" - markers of uncertainty and vagueness in speeches of East and West German politicians, S. Elspaff
  • the influence of attitudes and social networks on long-term linguistic accommodation in Germany, B. Barden
  • competing language ideologies in Germany - when East meets West, J. Dailey O'Cain.

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