Wooden anguage and cultural identity in writing journalistic titles in the Romanian and German press in pre- and post-communist Romania (Un)detecting irony. Analysing responses to irony in three different discursive contexts

Abstract

This paper aims, starting from the configuration of communicative relations evoked in the journalistic title (pertaining to Romanian and German media texts, written in Romania in the pre-and post-revolutionary postwar period), to debate over some issues involved in the study of linguistic heterogeneity at the level of authorial peritext. Specifically, the communication intends to present some cultural correspondences detectable in the Romanian and German press in Romania in the pre-and post-revolutionary period in the journalistic title construction. It will address issues related to how wooden language is handled in the two types of press, cultures respectively, as well as aspects of the relationship between otherness and identity within the Romanian and German communities from Romania at the level of verbal post-revolutionary peritext (after 1989).