From ‘political correctness’ to ‘politische Korrektheit’: discourses of ‘PC’ in the German newspaper, Die Welt  

Oleh:

Johnson, Sally ; Suhr, Stephanie

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Discourse and Society (Full Text) vol. 14 no. 1 (Jan. 2003), page 49 - 68.
Topik: corpus linguistics; German newspaper discourse; national identity; political correctness
Fulltext: 49DS141.pdf (134.21KB)

Isi artikel

Discourses of ‘political correctness’ (‘PC’) are (Anglo-)American in origin. But one of the aims of this special issue of Discourse & Society is to explore ‘PC’ from the perspective of languages other than English and, in this article, we look at the case of German. After providing a brief discursive history of ‘political correctness’ in Germany, we present an empirical study of ‘PC’- related discourses in a corpus of texts gathered from the newspaper Die Welt. The analysis of the data begins with a quantitative survey of German ‘PC’- related terms from 1995 to 2000. This is followed by a qualitative analysis of the use of those terms during this period. The article reveals many similarities but also a number of interesting differences between Anglo-American and German discourses of ‘political correctness’, especially where the themes of national identity and the so-called ‘normalization’ of German historical consciousness are concerned.

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