Die Aussagekraft der Bilder in deutsch-polnischen Sprachführern / The expression power of pictures in German-Polish phrasebooks)
DOI: 10.23817/lingtreff.13-14 (published online: 2019-02-04)
Keywords: German-Polish phrasebooks, pictures, communication
The article describes German-Polish phrasebooks, i.e. the reference books used by Germans in everyday communication, while traveling through Poland. The main part of phrasebooks consists of exemplary sentences or short dialogue sequences. Over the time their contents were extended among other things by illustrations. Types of graphic elements in phrasebooks and their relationship with the text material were presented here. On this basis their role in the process of communication was determined. The study has a diachronic character and includes phrasebooks from the 16th century to the present day.
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