Business rhetoric in German novels from Buddenbrooks to the global corporation

"Throughout the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first, Germany has maintained its position as one of the world's largest economies. In the literature of this period, business is often depicted as a performance that requires great linguistic skill. This book is a study of the rep...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Schonfield, Ernest, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, New York : Camden House 2018.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39838006*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Managing Appearances in Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks, 1901
  • 2. Oratory and Publicity in Heinrich Mann's Der Untertan, 1914/18
  • 3. Organizing Speech in Gabriele Tergit's Kasebier erobert den Kurfurstendamm, 1931
  • 4. Seeing through the Rhetoric in Bertolt Brecht's Dreigroschenroman, 1934
  • 5. Giving an Account of the Self in Ingeborg Bachmann's Matina, 1971
  • 6. Negotiating Bureaucracy in Hermann Kant's Das Impressum, 1972
  • 7. Corporate Discourse in Friedrich Christian Delius's Unsere Siemens-Welt, 1972
  • 8. Producing Ethos in Kathrin Roggla's wir schlafen nicht, 2004
  • 9. Communicative Contests in Philipp Schonthaler's Das Schiff das singend zieht auf seiner Bahn, 2013.