„Texts from East Germany” mainly consists of previously unpublished texts covering aspects of everyday language use in East Germany. In addition to contracts, evaluations, manuals, menus and personal ads, it contains numerous private letters and some speeches and conversations in the original audio and as transcripts.
The texts provide an insight into the use of language in day-to-day life in the GDR. They help us to understand the historical development and about regional, social, contextual and other differences. They also explain why the producers and recipients of these and similar texts still communicate differently than perhaps expected, even after over 30 years of “German unity”.
As part of this collection of texts, a “selected bibliography of language in the GDR” was also compiled.
The link to the body of work is: https://hu.berlin/ddrkorpus

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): German (deu)