Names Denoting the German National Football Team Abroad and In the Home Country. A Perspective on... more Names Denoting the German National Football Team Abroad and In the Home Country. A Perspective on the Articles Published after the SemiFinal Between Germany and Brazil in the 2014 World Football Championship. Before or after every football game of a national football team, we can read dozens of articles or facebook posts about the game. The Romanians have accustomed themselves with calling the Romanian national football team Tricolorii. The French present their team with Les Bleus, The Brits with the Three Lions. Each country has its own characteristics which it uses in order to title its national football team. However, a rather interesting question is: " How does a title become one abroad? ". Is it inspired from the title used in the home country or is it inspired from stereotypes? I will try to find an answer while presenting and commenting the titles used to denote the German national football team in the UK, the Netherlands and USA.
This paper continues the research comprised in my PhD dissertation regarding the perspective of G... more This paper continues the research comprised in my PhD dissertation regarding the perspective of German nationals and other nationalities upon the German national football team. The paper consists of a pragmalinguistic analysis of Twitter posts distributed during the Women's World Cup. The aim is to observe whether or not the women's football team is associated with the German national feeling or not, as it applies in the case of the men's football representative.
Names Denoting the German National Football Team Abroad and In the Home Country. A Perspective on... more Names Denoting the German National Football Team Abroad and In the Home Country. A Perspective on the Articles Published after the SemiFinal Between Germany and Brazil in the 2014 World Football Championship. Before or after every football game of a national football team, we can read dozens of articles or facebook posts about the game. The Romanians have accustomed themselves with calling the Romanian national football team Tricolorii. The French present their team with Les Bleus, The Brits with the Three Lions. Each country has its own characteristics which it uses in order to title its national football team. However, a rather interesting question is: " How does a title become one abroad? ". Is it inspired from the title used in the home country or is it inspired from stereotypes? I will try to find an answer while presenting and commenting the titles used to denote the German national football team in the UK, the Netherlands and USA.
This paper continues the research comprised in my PhD dissertation regarding the perspective of G... more This paper continues the research comprised in my PhD dissertation regarding the perspective of German nationals and other nationalities upon the German national football team. The paper consists of a pragmalinguistic analysis of Twitter posts distributed during the Women's World Cup. The aim is to observe whether or not the women's football team is associated with the German national feeling or not, as it applies in the case of the men's football representative.
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