Signale zur Markierung von Diskursrelationen im Vergleich: Am Beispiel von Zeitungsleitartikeln in Deutschland und Taiwan

Abstract

The present work deals with signals for marking discourse relations, which play an outstanding role for the understanding of a text. The aim of the study is to use German and Taiwanese newspaper editorials to capture signals that mark discourse relations. An attempt is made to classify signals according to their linking functions. This should contribute to the fact that implicit and explicit discourse relations can be differentiated from one another and compared with each other. In the literature search, a contrastive study on discourse relations around newspaper editorials is not yet available. It is therefore interesting to look at how signals that mark discourse relation are used in the newspaper editorial, and whether language-specific differences can be derived from them, and what conclusions can be drawn from the results of the analysis on foreign language didactics.