Linguistische Analyse von Emotionen am Beispiel der polnischen und deutschen Boulevardpresse

Abstract

The article presents the results of an analysis of emotions that is mainly based on the assumptions of discourse linguistics and partly also of media linguistics. The article focuses on the question of how emotions are constructed, manifested and generated by means of signs or sign complexes in texts of media discourses in Poland and Germany and how they can shape these discourses and help shape reality (e.g. German-Polish relations). Analysing emotions is a relatively well-known and fast-growing phenomenon that has its roots in many areas of science. However, German emotion research rarely analyses affect in the linguistic context of media and discourse. For this reason, this area of investigation is considered to be relatively unexplored and in need of research. The analysis refers to texts from the Polish and German tabloid press, whereby the examples presented are in most cases based on pan-European discourse events with a strong potential for emotional impact.

Keywords

• emotion research
• media discourse
• affect
• german-polish relations