Politische Landschaften

In the context of the birth of national constructs, Benedict Anderson coined the successful concept of imagined communities. The creation of a national language, a myth of origin, and a memorial culture allows for the constitution of a field of national time. Rainer Guldin shows: There is a spatial field corresponding to this temporal one. For instance, national formations in Europe have kept being attributed to certain landscape typologies. Due to his discoursive, medial approach, Anderson's scope does not even reach certain landscape phenomena. This theoretical gap is closed here for the example of the German language area.

Rainer Guldin (Dr. phil.), geb. 1954, lehrt Deutsche Sprache und Kultur an der Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano (Schweiz). Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Theorie der Metapher, Mehrsprachigkeit und Übersetzung.