| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The topic is an investigation of the impact the introduction of letterpress printing had on the development and formation of a standard literary/written German language which is said to have brought about a revolution in communication in Central Europe. To that end, I analyzed from a stylistic point of view, the urban language of 16th century Nuremberg. I was not able to confirm a direct impact of the introduction of letterpress printing on the personal texts of the local citizens. However, there appears to exist a possibility that the style of pamphlets and single leaf woodcuts serving at the time as predecessors to the newspapers of later times, might have contributed to the raising of stylistic awareness of the writing-style of people.
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