by Dieter E. Zimmer · Haffmans Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783251010219
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«Redens Arten. Über Trends und Tollheiten im neudeutschen Sprachgebrauch» is Dieter E. Zimmer's linguistic essay (Haffmans Verlag, paperback).
The essay analyzes fashions and oddities of contemporary German through the language of criticism and book flaps. Dieter E. Zimmer observes how publishing publicity and cultural reviews use unnuanced laudatory adjectives and how these expressions are recycled among them.
Published in 1988. Volume 21 of the Haffmans Taschenbuch collection, in the series «Zum Stand der Sprachforschung».
For those interested in the German language and in the evolution of rhetoric and public uses of the language.
German journalist, author, and translator (1934-2020)
