Sprachregelung

A voice control is a statement or agreement, shall be designated as certain things when the language would allow several options per se.

Importance

Language rules can specify how and when and in what context individual words and statements are to be used, what words and statements are to be avoided and which terms are to use instead. Language rules come from the usual practice in politics and government; now they are also common in most large organizations. You shall ensure that statements made by various parts of the organization does not sound contradictory, though they give the same thing or the same thing is meant. They also provide (if they are adhered to ) that only being told what would give the management of the organization concerned. A voice control often includes a euphemism.

Language rules used in the political arena, especially to anchor a particular view of things or conditions in the public consciousness. A term used as a brand name; with him occupied one a political issue. Often two or three terms of general language be joined, for example:

  • Cooperative School
  • 35 -hour week with no loss of pay

Increasingly common is in the political realm, use as euphemistisches synonym for the declaratory formula compromise ( a compromise formula is a bad compromise because not built by consensus). A known example of informal language regime is the use of the prefixes " atomic " and " nuclear ":

  • Proponents talked since the end of the 1950s, nuclear energy, nuclear power plant, etc.;
  • Opponents used the term " atomic "

Almost everyone interested knew this Convention; was immediately clear by the choice of words, which side someone standing.

Similarly, some on the political left and many left-wing extremists spoke in the 1970s of " Germany " instead of " Germany ", uz this in order to signal their political views and overbearing to a narrowing- term rather than a common, but in their eyes to use. For all other politically interested, it was almost taboo to use the word " Germany "; in the phase of prohibitions handed it to the ethos checked bureaucracy already made ​​if the respondent from Germany or West Berlin from Berlin or West Berlin said.

Examples

Examples of language rules:

  • In the GDR had to East Berlin in official statements generally as " Berlin, capital of the GDR " are referred to.
  • In the Federal Republic of Germany was not allowed to be spoken of as a state for a long time in official statements of the GDR, instead, " Soviet Occupation Zone " or similar terms were still being used.
  • Many government agencies and other organizations in industrialized countries stipulate that official announcements must be written gender neutral.
  • The Third Reich was, in the context of the DC circuit language arrangements for many areas, such as " Kinderlandverschickung " ( for evacuation from bombed cities).
  • A computer manufacturer specifies that may be spoken in manuals for the products sold PCs only "plastic", not " plastic". ( "Plastic" has the connotation / secondary meaning " cheap, not particularly durable .")
  • Because of the rejection of anglicisms following language rules have been in the scene spoke conservative naturalized: World network = internet; Home page = Home; Link = link.
  • " 35 -hour work week with full pay " was a euphemism for the term " full compensation ", which is very positive with justice and similar connotations.

It could mean " those who work more earn more; who works less less ". In fact, however, was meant: the working time should decrease from 40 to 35 hours; wages should still remain the same. De facto would be (if you would have done it in one step, and if the pace of work would have remained the same) have been an increase in the hourly rate of 14.3%.

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