When learning a language we often need to rely on teaching books that, through illustrative examples and exercises, teach us how the respective language is spoken correctly. The content of these illustrations is however also a part of the material we learn, and the implications and ethics visible in them a part of the intended language knowledge. Through a discourse-oriented focus, these aspects of language knowledge become interesting. Apart from the linguistic, what other taught information can be found in regular teaching material? This essay aims to explore the content of German teaching books; it intends to analyze a selection of four books published by three different publishers for patterns and indications of consumption. These will be put under the microscope through selected parts of primarily the discourse linguistics developed by Ingo H. Warnke and Jürgen Sptizmüller. Subjects such as power, responsibility, and awareness will be discussed, but the main questions of the essay are: to what extent do illustrative examples from the selected four books express notions, implications, and tendencies of consumption? In the case they do: how is this manifested? What is implied, evaluated and indicated? In the end, these questions are investigated, evaluated, and answered.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-325594 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Forsström, Adam |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för moderna språk |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | German |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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