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Similar to ramblings, Geschwurbel is a disparaging expression in colloquial language for supposedly or actually incomprehensible, unrealistic or empty statements. The word is mainly used in environments where linguistic forms of expression are of particular importance for a delimiting representation, such as in politics , religion , advertising or the humanities . In literary criticism , the term is used to denounce bad style .

Sections of written text as well as parts of spoken speech can be referred to as gurgles . In most cases, no content reference is included for the attempt to downgrade, and the intention is often beyond that to avoid an argumentative presentation for the intended disqualification. Since it is seldom possible to outline the content of statements marked for a conceptual definition of the expression, the linguistic act of self-presentation is often examined more closely (see section Politics ).

Etymology and Distribution

The word Geschwurbel is etymologically derived as a verbal noun from the verb swirl, swirl, swirl ( Middle High German swerbe , for to be dizzy, stagger, turn in a circle, move whirling, whirling, move, move in confused crowd) and is next to the Nouns Schwurbel and Schwirbel with a similar meaning, but, in contrast to these, emphasizes less on the individually grasped process than on its repetition. In Grimm's German dictionary it is listed as a lemma and reproduced as “ beworrene crowd, schwarm, confuser lärm, staumel ”; Johann Andreas Schmeller's Bavarian dictionary serves as a reference . The underlying verb is inherited from the old Germanic verb * swerbana- "rub, wipe".

The word is not established everywhere in the German-speaking area and is rarely used: According to the text corpus of the University of Leipzig, it belongs to frequency class 17 (for comparison: gibberish belongs to frequency class 15). The 25th edition (2009) and the 24th (2006) did not appear in the dictionary of spelling , but it is now listed online in the dictionary. In the sense of shallow or foolish talk, gossip , gossip or rambling are often used synonymously . Prate is a putative form schwâweln with wobble , spill used (u / f / b-relationship), from a root word with the meaning of the "shaking, tremors, vary wobble", and points such as, schwurbeln 'on a movement whose Direction is not fixed.

application

politics

In politics, the term is used in connection with (supposedly) ideologically motivated rhetorical statements. Example:
This goes hand in hand with the nebulous rhetoric of the autonomous scene - a swirl of "structural conditions of oppression" and their overcoming "in the here and now", which probably serves more for self-styling than for political debate.

In addition, on certain occasions (interviews, roundtables) put forward repeatedly platitudes called Geschwurbel.

literature

In reviews , for example, the verbose portrayal of thoughts, sensations and feelings while neglecting the plot, the excessive use of metaphors or a confused narrative style is referred to as gurgling. Example: The
fact that such an arch-reactionary gossip is translated into German at all can only be due to the fact that the rambling fervor of an exuberant storytelling was confused with the depth of the Russian soul. (Jörg Magenau on the novel "A wreath for the grave of the wind" by Alan Tschertschessow in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 17, 2003, p. 32)

Others

The term is also used in relation to works of fine art ( abstract gurgling in oil ) and philosophy ( learned gurgling about God and the world ), occasionally with special reference to postmodernism (that sounds like postmodern gurgling ).

A variant used by Eckhard Henscheid , among others, is Hirnschwurbel .

See also

Web links

Wiktionary: Geschwurbel  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: Geschwafel  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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  1. ↑ too confused see Duden online version .
  2. ↑ see gibberish or synonymously drivel , other chatter (versions Duden-online)
  3. ↑ a b Geschwurbel, n. . In: Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm: German Dictionary. Hirzel, Leipzig 1854–1961 ( woerterbuchnetz.de , University of Trier).
  4. ↑ SCHWURBELN, SCHWÜRBELN, verb . In: Grimm: German dictionary. Hirzel, Leipzig 1854–1961 ( woerterbuchnetz.de , University of Trier).
  5. ↑ SWIRL, m. . In: Grimm: German dictionary. Hirzel, Leipzig 1854–1961 ( woerterbuchnetz.de , University of Trier).
  6. ^ Johann Andreas Schmeller: Bavarian Dictionary. 2nd ed., Volume 2, 1877, p. 647.
  7. ^ Vocabulary portal
  8. ↑ Duden online Geschwurbel
  9. ↑ SCHWAFELN, verb. chatter . In: Grimm: German dictionary. Hirzel, Leipzig 1854–1961 ( woerterbuchnetz.de , University of Trier).
  10. ↑ The time , 2 September 37/2004 2004, p 6 online version
  11. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 21/2005, p. 39
  12. ↑ The time 21/2005, S. 61, online version
  13. ↑ The time 47/2000, S. 15, online version
  14. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 28, 1996, p. 37
  15. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 15, 1995, p. 13
  16. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 12, 1996, p. 11
  17. ↑ in his trilogy of ongoing nonsense