The terrorist attacks repeatedly determine the headlines of the coverage in the mass media. Some focus primarily on the facts, others focus on the horror and grief. The focus of the present article is therefore on the comparison of reporting on terrorist attacks in the German tabloid and quality press with regard to the strategies of emotionalization using language.
Der vorliegende Beitrag konzentriert sich auf die Frage, wie das Phänomen Terrorismus in Form schrecklicher Bilder vermittelt wird und welche Motive und Aspekte thematisiert werden. Das Korpus besteht aus multimodalen Kommunikationen, die mittels einer Internetsuche mit Hilfe der Suchmaschine Google ermittelt wurden. Unter multimodaler Kommunikation versteht man Kombinationen aus geschriebenen Texten und zweidimensionalen statischen Bildern, die zusammen mit anderen relevanten (Sub)Modalitäten wie Typografie und Farbe den Empfang bestimmen. In der Analyse wird folgenden Fragen nachgegangen: Was wird gezeigt? Wie wird es gezeigt? Welche Funktionen haben Text und Bild sowie die multimodale Kommunikation insgesamt?
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The present paper focuses on the question of how the phenomenon of terrorism is conveyed in the form of terrifying images and which motives and aspects are thematised. The corpus is composed of multimodal communications, which were determined by means of an internet search with the help of the search engine Google. Multimodal communications are understood to be combinations of written texts and twodimensional static images that, together with other relevant (sub)modalities such as typography and colour, determine the reception. The analysis will explore the following questions: What will be shown? How is it shown? What functions do the text and image as well as the multimodal communication as a whole have? Keywords: multimodal communication, multimodal text, multimodality, terrifying images, terrorism
The purpose of this article is to present the usefulness of parallel and background texts in the work of a translator of specialist texts. In the theoretical part, the issue of the concept of death and its types will be discussed. A short review of the definitions and characteristics of the parallel and background texts will also be made. The second part is devoted to the use of this type of texts in determining German equivalents of Polish terms related to human death.