Von Absagebriefen zu Absagegeneratoren – Konstanz und Wandel in Form und Inhalt von deutschen Absageschreiben auf Bewerbungen

• Authors: Szczęk, Joanna

Title variants

DE

From refusal letters to refusal letter generators – constancy and changeability in the form and content of German job application refusal letters

Abstracts

EN

The situation in the job market and specific expectations of job applicants lie at the heart of a peculiar “career” that has recently been experienced in refusal letters. Additional elements influencing their form and content are German law regulations. Aperitif-Briefe, Eisschreiben, and refusal letters proper are the three main variants of this text genre which has undergone noticeable evolution in the investigated period of 2001–2012. The aim of this article is to indicate the development stages of this text genre, paying special attention to the aids offered to refusal letter authors by developing technology, especially by media.

Keywords

EN

refusal letters; refusal letter generators; refusing; job applications

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Germanica
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 11

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Szczęk, Joanna

other

Universität Wrocław, Institut für Germanische Philologie, Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Linguistik, 50-140 Wrocław, Pl. Nankiera 15b

Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/18570

DOI

10.18778/1427-9665.11.02