Düsseldorf School (Linguistics)
Düsseldorfer Schule (sometimes also called the Düsseldorf approach ) describes a linguistic research paradigm based on semantic-pragmatic perspectives on constructed reality and linguistic history.
Based on the ideas of the then Düsseldorf professor for German philology and linguistics, Georg Stötzel , the Düsseldorf School developed methodologically and in numerous empirical work through its students (e.g. Karin Böke, Matthias Jung, Thomas Niehr or Martin Wengeler) and Colleagues (e.g. Dietrich Busse, Fritz Hermanns or Wolfgang Teubert). As a former assistant to Peter von Polenz from 1962 to 1966, Stötzel follows the tradition of classic linguistic historiography. During his time in Düsseldorf he developed the concept of a language history as a history of discourse on the basis of a contemporary language history, which Peter von Polenz describes in his three-volume history of language. A history of discourse understood in this way is theoretically and methodologically understood as a semantic-pragmatic analysis that is particularly committed to hermeneutic and philological principles. Based on Georg Stötzel's model, the “Düsseldorfer Schule” empirically focuses on the history of public language use and makes this accessible through research in large, national print newspapers. The empirical orientation is also in the tradition of Peter von Polenz, who, like Dietrich Busse, assumes a public dominated by mass media, in which reality or realities appear as "that which is prepared according to social rules of attention control." Description of the history of discourse in the sense of an analysis of public linguistic usage materialized empirically in the work of the people mentioned above.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Peter von Polenz: German language history from the late Middle Ages to the present . 2nd Edition. tape 2 . Berlin et al. 2000, p. 121 ff .
- ^ Dietrich Busse: The public as a space of discourse. Conditions for the development of meaning changes in public language use. In: Böke Karin, Matthias Jung, Martin Wengeler (eds.): Public language use. Practical, theoretical and historical perspectives. Opladen 1996, p. 351 .