Pragmatic set phrases (pragmatic phrasemes) are also called communicative routine formulas. They have been given particular attention by research in the field of conversational analysis and foreign language teaching, but they are also a research subject in phraseology, though on the periphery of the discipline. Pragmatic set phrases are mainly used in oral communication, but they also appear quite often in newspaper texts, where there is a preference for certain classes of set phrases. This paper deals with problems in the classification of pragmatic set phrases which appear in commentary texts of different types of German newspapers. The material for the investigation is taken from the recently compiled Helsinki Commentary Corpus.
Which text types have appeared in editions of a daily newspaper in the course of 75 years? A classification built on corresponding preliminary work in media studies and text linguistics has been presented in order to to show their differentiation. On the basis of the example of December issues of the “Berliner Zeitung” from the years 1945, 1960, 1975, 1990, 2005 and 2020, evidence for the differentiated text types will be sought. The diachronic comparison reveals strong dependence of the repertoire of text types on historical circumstances, but also on editorial decisions.
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Welche Textsorten erscheinen in den Ausgaben einer Tageszeitung im Verlaufe von siebeneinhalb Jahrzehnten? Fur deren Differenzierung wird eine Klassifikation vorgestellt, die auf entsprechende Vorarbeiten aus Medienwissenschaft und Textlinguistik aufbaut. Am Beispiel je einer Dezember-Ausgabe der „Berliner Zeitung“ aus den Jahren 1945, 1960, 1975, 1990, 2005 und 2020 werden Belege fur die unterschiedenen Textsorten gesucht. Im diachronen Vergleich tritt die starke Abhangigkeit des Textsortenrepertoires von den historischen Umstanden, aber auch von Entscheidungen der Redaktion zutage.
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