Abstract
The aim of the paper is to investigate to what degree the linguistic means used to
emphasize a certain element in the text are received by German native speakers. The
research is based on a purpose designed questionnaire consisting of two excerpts
taken from parliamentary speeches in Bundestag. The questionnaire was administered
to 55 German philology students at the University of Leipzig. The students’
task was to read the excerpts carefully and then to decide which elements in the
text were emphasized by its author. The fi ndings of the study indicate how different
means of textual emphasis (syntactic, lexical and rhetorical ones) are recognized by
the students.
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