Geraldine Theresa Horan: Mothers, Warriors, Guardians of the Soul (2003)

[Julia Ulrich]

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>>From the series
Studia Linguistica Germanica

Series Editors: Stefan Sonderegger and Oskar Reichmann


Geraldine Theresa Horan

MOTHERS, WARRIORS, GUARDIANS OF THE SOUL
Female Discourse in National Socialism 1924-1934


2003. vii, 350 pages. 9 illustrations. Cloth.
Euro 94.00 [D]/ sFr 150,- / approx. US$ 94.00
ISBN 3-11-017232-1
(Studia Linguistica Germanica 68)


This study shows that women involved in National Socialism in the years
1924-1934 developed and shaped a recognizable discourse which
communicated and reflected their position and status within the NS
movement.

The analysis is based on a variety of text-types produced by members of
NS women's organisations, and includes official correspondence,
circulars, reports, pamphlets, monographs and articles from NS women's
journals. It draws upon several areas of linguistic theory, including
feminist linguistics, semantics, pragmatics and discourse analysis, and
the salient features iden-tified in the female discourse are placed
within a sociolinguistic framework.

While previous research into the language of the NS-system has largely
ignored the possibility of a cohesive female discourse, the study
supports the idea that this discourse was dynamic, and at times
heterogeneous, whilst also displaying many self-defining and
self-referential features. It is characterized by its ambiguities and
apparent contra-dictions, which expresses separateness and difference,
yet also solidarity with the NSDAP.

The author is Lecturer in the Department of German at the University of
London.


>>From the Contents:

1. Introduction: existence of a linguistic Frauenwelt?
2. Morpho-semantic analysis
3. Lexico-semantic analysis
4. Textual analysis
5. Conclusion


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