Kommunikative Beschränkungen im Spiegel deutscher und britischer Tagebücher. Eine Analyse des Wandels metakommunikativer Äußerungen zwischen 1840 und 1960.

Schmueser, P. and Schroeter, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9636-245X (2026) Kommunikative Beschränkungen im Spiegel deutscher und britischer Tagebücher. Eine Analyse des Wandels metakommunikativer Äußerungen zwischen 1840 und 1960. In: Metapragmatik: Wenn Sprachgebrauch zum Thema wird. Narr Francke Attempo, Tuebingen. (In Press)

Abstract/Summary

This paper is based on research we are conducting in an interdisciplinary project (linguistics and history), which analyses changing communicative norms and ideals between voice and silence as reflected in German and British diaries from 1840 to 1990. Combining approaches of qualitative close reading and software based coding (NVivo), we look at diarists‘ metacommunication pointing towards communicative options and constraints, affordances and risks, norms and ideals in the everyday life of ordinary people. For this contribution, we are using a data set compiling 20 British and 20 German diaries each from the 1840s and 1950s (i.e. 80 diaries in total) and focusing on diarists‘ recounting and metapragmatic reflections of communicative constraints. By analysing these, we argue, we can gain valuable insights into changes in communicative norms and their connections to broader sociopolitical, cultural and technological shifts going from the middle of the 19th to the middle of the 20th century.

Item Type	Book or Report Section
URI	https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/128140
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Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > Languages and Cultures Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > Languages and Cultures > German Arts, Humanities and Social Science > Language Text and Power
Publisher	Narr Francke Attempo
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