Politische Bewegungen bringen seit jeher Lieder hervor, die gesellschaftliche, staatliche und ökonomische Missstände in Wort und Klang verarbeiteten und damit Spiegel der Geschichte, der Kultur, der Sprache brisanter Zeiten sind – so auch das politische Lied der 68er. Diese Arbeit untersucht, inwieweit das politische Lied der 68er politische Sprache abbildet und welche Textsortenmerkmale es damit aufweist. An fünf repräsentativen Liedtexten ermittelt sie Textmerkmalsbündel auf Ausdrucks- wie Inhaltsseite und analysiert empirisch die Ebenen Textkontext, Textthema, Textfunktion, Lexik und Grammatik. Daraus ergeben sich zwei Ausprägungen der Textsortenvariante: zum einen die poetischen, narrativen Lieder zu Beginn der 68er, zum anderen die aggressiveren, appellativen Lieder der radikalen Phase. Die Lieder gewinnen ihren Reiz besonders dadurch, dass sie funktional politische Intentionen vermitteln, gleichzeitig aber sprachästhetische Momente offenbaren. Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Botschaft und Gestalt signalisieren die Liedermacher politische Inhalte ästhetisch; dies belegen spezifische poetische Strategien wie Biermanns Bilderstrategie, Süverkrüps Wortbildungsstrategie, Degenhardts Sinnesreiz- und Verschleierungsstrategie sowie Hüschs Beschönigungsstrategie.

The series Sprache und Wissen ["Language and Knowledge"] is a publication platform for high-quality papers on German linguistics with interdisciplinary focus. The series takes on current trends in the scientific community from a linguistic perspective in order to show how general and expert knowledge are made possible through language and gain perspective through it. The linguistic treatment of discursive knowledge formats aims to advance the field of linguistics and other sciences interested in language in an innovative way. The series presents papers with semantic, pragmatic, and syntactic approaches from the perspective of variety-specific as well as text- and discourse-linguistic cognitive interest. The series welcomes monographs as well as systematically-structured anthologies and conference proceedings.

The series Sprache und Wissen ["Language and Knowledge"] is a publication platform for high-quality papers on German linguistics with interdisciplinary focus. The series takes on current trends in the scientific community from a linguistic perspective in order to show how general and expert knowledge are made possible through language and gain perspective through it. The linguistic treatment of discursive knowledge formats aims to advance the field of linguistics and other sciences interested in language in an innovative way. The series presents papers with semantic, pragmatic, and syntactic approaches from the perspective of variety-specific as well as text- and discourse-linguistic cognitive interest. The series welcomes monographs as well as systematically-structured anthologies and conference proceedings.

The series Sprache und Wissen  ["Language and Knowledge"] is a publication platform for high-quality papers on German linguistics with interdisciplinary focus. The series takes on current trends in the scientific community from a linguistic perspective in order to show how general and expert knowledge are made possible through language and gain perspective through it. The linguistic treatment of discursive knowledge formats aims to advance the field of linguistics and other sciences interested in language in an innovative way. The series presents papers with semantic, pragmatic, and syntactic approaches from the perspective of variety-specific as well as text- and discourse-linguistic cognitive interest. The series welcomes monographs as well as systematically-structured anthologies and conference proceedings.