The Orient and Morgenland in German discourse: a semiotic and postcolonial analysis

This paper offers a semiotic and postcolonial investigation of how the two terms of Orient and Morgenland shape German cultural discourse about the East. Drawing on Ferdinand de Saussure’s principle of the arbitrariness of the sign and postcolonial concepts of othering, this research examines how th...

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Main Author: Yang Yiqi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2025-06-01
Series:Language and Semiotic Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/lass-2025-0029
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