Publisher's Synopsis
This study seeks to show that women involved in National Socialism in the years 1924-1934 developed and shaped a recognisable discourse which communicated and reflected their position and status with the NS movement.;The analysis is based on a variety of text-types produced by female members of NS women's organisations and includes official correspondence, circulars, reports, pamphlets, monographs and articles from NS women's journals. It draws upon several areas of linguistic theory, including feminist linguistics, semantics, pragmatics and discourse analysis and the salient features identified in the female discourse are placed within a sociolinguistic framework.;While previous research into language in National Socialism has largely ignored the possibility of a cohesive female discourse, the study supports the idea that this discourse was dynamic and at times hetergeneous whilst also displaying many self-defining and self-referential features. It is characterized by its ambiguities and apparent contradictions which expresses separateness and difference, yet also solidarity with NSDAP.
