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Some features of journalistic business German texts and their significance for reading comprehension

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  • Such texts naturally figure among those used in coursebooks aimed at the advanced student of Business German, e.g. Studium Wirschaftsdeutsch Butzphal G. Riordan C. Hodder & Stoughton London 1990 S. Cox et al., Business — auf deutsch, Munich, Klett Edition Deutsch, 1990.
  • Deuhme , M. 1991 . Phraseologie der deutschen Wirtschaftssprache. Eine empirische Untersuchung zur Verwendung von Phraseologismen in journalistischen Fachtexten , Essen : Verlag Die Blaue Eule .
  • Hawranek , Dietmar . 1989 . “ Im Jahr 2000 ist das ganz normal ” . In Der Spiegel 75 – 75 . 29
  • 1993 . “ Sicher wie in der Bank ” . In Der Spiegel 117 – 117 . 39
  • Examples of lexical items include allerdings, ohnehin, jedenfalls, zwar…aber and many of the ‘modal particles’ dealt with, for example, in Chapter 10 of Hammer's German Grammar and Usage (rev. M. Durrell, London, Edward Arnold, 1991). Cf. also Herrmann K. Wirtschaftstexte im Unterricht Goethe-Institut München 1990 10 ff 10 ff There are of course a very large number of phrasal discourse markers, and they constitute an essentially open class: two random examples would be Es deutet alles daraufhin, daβ… and Es ist wirklich an der Zeit, daβ…
  • Wirtschaftswoche 5/24.01.92
  • Duhme , M. op. cit. 18 – 18 . and 29–32
  • Fleischer , W. 1982 . Phraseologie der deutschen Gegenwarts-sprache , Leipzig : VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig .
  • Wirtschaftswoche 3 – 3 . 23,03.06.94
  • There is still no comprehensive bilingual phraseological dictionary for German and English, but students should be encouraged to refer to such works as Vol. 11 of Duden Drosdowski G. Scholze-Stubenrecht W. Duden — Redewend-ungen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten Duden Verlag Mannheim 1992 and H. Schemann, Deutsche Idiomatik. Die deutschen Redewendungen im Kontext, Stuttgart and Dresden, Klett, 1993
  • Cf. Mueller H. Die Rolle des Klischees im Deutschen The German Quarterly 1965 38/1 44 55
  • Cf. Fowler H.W. A Dictionary of Modern English Usage , 2nd edition Gowers Ernest Oxford University Press Oxford 1965
  • “ Qualm in Reich der Mitte ” . In Wirtschaftswoche 48 – 48 . 11, O9.03.95
  • 1995 . “ Teure Kriecher ” . In Der Spiegel 124 – 124 . 11
  • Cf. Buhlmann R. Fearns A. Einführung in die Fach-sprache der Betriebswirtschaft Goethe-Institut München 1989 111 131 Band 1
  • Cf. et al. Business — auf deutsch Klett Edition Deutsch Munich 1990 93 93
  • Cf. Hiffgen A. Duncalf-Edelsbacher J. Understanding German Accounts Pitman London 1994
  • Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon , Vol. 6 , Wiesbaden : Gabler Verlag . regularly revised

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