Fachsprache in literarischen Texten: Analyse der Rechtssprache in Bernhard Schlinks Der Vorleser

• Autores: María Pilar Castillo Bernal
• Localización: Lebende Sprachen, ISSN 0023-9909, Vol. 63, Nº. 2, 2018, págs. 330-350
• Idioma: alemán
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  • This work focuses on the German novel Der Vorleser by Bernhard Schlink, a former Professor of Law and Judge of the Constitutional Court at North Rhine-Westphalia. After its publication in 1995, the novel quickly became part of the literary canon in Germany with high sales numbers and it was included in the syllabus for secondary schools at several Länder. This success is due to the interest of the topics it deals with regarding the National Socialism regime: the struggle of the German society with its past and the trials around the extermination camp of Auschwitz celebrated in Frankfurt in the 60 s. This study aims at analysing the account of the trials presented in the novel. More specifically, the legal language shall be examined in the context of a literary text and the characteristics of the special language found in the novel shall be checked against relevant studies on legal texts. The main purpose is to establish to what extent special language used in a literary text presents the same features that can be detected in a specialised text