Emotionen in medialen Diskursen am Beispiel von Memes

Abstract

The aim of this article is to show which means and strategies can be used to manifest or generate emotions as communicative phenomena in memes. The research corpus includes Polish memes on German-Polish relations. The research has an interdisciplinary character – it is primarily based on a media and discourse linguistic approach, but also combines elements of emotion research with it. The article is divided into a theoretical part, in which the most important terms are defined, and an empirical part. The analysis is based on a qualitative approach. The selected memes are analysed with a special focus on the language-image relations, which have a significant influence on the manifestation, thematisation and evocation of emotions in this (multimodal) form of communication.

Keywords

• meme
• emotion
• discourse
• multimodality