Diverse konzepte des patriotismus im Deutschen diskurs – eine framebasierte semantische analyse

This paper presents a cognitive-semantic analysis of the concept of patriotism in German. The theoretical and methodological framework is the frame semantics. The source of the textual data is the newspaper Bild, chosen for its highest circulation in Germany, its supra-regional reach and its wide range of semantic aspects. The time frame of the corpus data 2006−2018 was set due to events developing the discussion on patriotism in Germany, such as the 2006 Football World Cup and the migration crisis, especially its escalation in 2015. The results show the most relevant concepts of patriotism, defining their conceptual framework. They identify four main categories of description, i.e. politics, society, economy and sport, which delineate differentiated conceptions of patriotism. The different concepts are valued differently depending on their ideological profiling. The analysis reveals not only the current conceptualisation of the concept of patriotism, but also the redefinition and process of detabooing of patriotism in the German cultural area.