Лингвокультурные особенности гимнов федеральных земель Германии

Abstract

The aim of the study is to determine the differentiating and integrating semantic features of the texts of the anthems of Germany’s states and their connection with the national anthem of Germany. Linguistic studies of hymn groups linked by a common criterion are dominated by the products of the collapse of the Soviet Union and colonial empires. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that the connecting feature of the group under consideration is not the historical past, but the common present and future as a part of a single nation state. In each of the sixteen anthems of the states, the speech means of implementing the identifying, unifying and ideological functions of the anthem are highlighted. It is established that the range of lexical expressions for the basic patriotic concepts HOMELAND and THE PEOPLE is not limited to “small motherland”. The semantic connection of the songs of the states with Germany’s anthem is realized in one or another extent by an appeal to the basic values of the nation state, which are unity, the rule of law, freedom, and only a few old texts contain the morpheme ‘deutsch’. As a result of the study, the linguocultural equivalence of the official and unofficial anthems of the states was proved and the complementary semantic relations between the national and federal anthems were determined.