Publisher's Synopsis
In the linguistic research on the Wende undertaken so far, phenomena like vocabulary change and political language usage have been in the forefront of interest. This has involved a high degree of neglect for broad areas of everyday and spoken language and their socio-cultural moorings. The present volume sees itself as an empirical contribution to rectifying that situation. There are three main subjects: >East< and >West< as categories of social affiliation established and concretized in communication; patterns and strategies of oral communication employed by East and West Germans (e.g. in job and guidance interviews); changes within the East German communication society.
