Wertende Referenz im historischen Diskurs über die Annexion Bosnien-Herzegowinas
Evaluative reference in the historical discourse on the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina

Author(s): Alma Čović-Filipović
Subject(s): Language studies, Political history, Politics and communication
Published by: Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Sarajevu
Keywords: language; political communication; BiH; annexation;
Summary/Abstract: The discourse concerning the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina belongs to the scientific objects of history science which have been within a scientific focus of history science as well as of numerous associated disciplines. This paper examines the discourse from the linguistic perspective, in particular from the discursive linguistic perspective, as a part of the political discourse, and thus of political communication. In this sense, contemporary media texts written in the three daily newspapers – the Neue Freie Presse, the Sarajevoer Tagblatt and the Bosnische Post – have been examined to identify valuing references to central reality clippings of this discourse. The aim of this paper is to show how the valuing reference towards the country's annexation process and its closely related issues support communicative goals of justification, diminishing and reinterpretation of annexation in political and media communication.

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