Expositionsmittel des Deutschen am Beispiel von Parlamentsreden / The means of textual emphasis in German on the example of parliamentary speeches
published online: 2021-05-01
pp. 125–139
Keywords: emphasis, lexemes, phrases, German syntax and pragmatic, parliamentary speech
The article deals with lexemes and lexicalized phrases used in German to emphasise such elements in the text as a word, a phrase, a clause or the whole utterance. The analysed data consists of extracts from parliamentary speeches in Bundestag. The article aims mainly at examining emphasizing lexemes and phrases from the syntactic and pragmatic perspectives in order to elaborate their preliminary subclassification.
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