{"id":338,"date":"2014-11-09T00:23:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T22:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0x0a.li\/?p=338"},"modified":"2023-04-04T12:39:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T10:39:35","slug":"wir-blieben-strittig-an-diesem-tag-ueber-wendekorpus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/0x0a.li\/en\/wir-blieben-strittig-an-diesem-tag-ueber-wendekorpus\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We remained contentious that day.&#8221; On &#8220;Reunification Corpus&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8221; is a violent word. Not only because a We always requires that You or They be excluded: The violence of We is also an inclusive one. To say \u201cWe\u201d is to take possession of those one presumes to speak for. We consumes. And yet, it seems that the only way to resist We is with another We.<\/p>\n<p>Unless, that is, one can elude all this We-speak. The 25 years that have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, or <em>die Wende<\/em> \u2014 which an official We, that of reunified Germany, celebrates today \u2014 have not been long enough to digest all the little Wes, the ones spoken for and thus consumed. If one goes back to that time \u2014 whose images today are icons of a linear, inevitable course of history \u2014 and looks at its verbal images, a multiplicity of Wes emerges that can only persist as independent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"distribute-box\">\n<div class=\"cover\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/0x0a.li\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/cover_reunification_corpus.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"details\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title\">Reunification Corpus<\/li>\n<li>Hannes Bajohr<\/li>\n<li>Translated by Julia Pelta Feldman<\/li>\n<li>2014<\/li>\n<li>6979 Characters<\/li>\n<li class=\"download\"><strong>Download:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/0x0a.li\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Reunification-Corpus_0x0a.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Institute of the German Language\u2019s \u201cWendekorpus\u201d (Reunification Corpus) contains thousands of Wes. According to its self-description, it was \u201ccooperatively compiled by the IGL and the former Central Institute for Linguistics of the erstwhile GDR\u2019s Academy of Sciences, as part of the project <em>Gesamtdeutsche Korpusinituative<\/em> (East-West German Corpus Initiative).\u201d It is comprised of approximately 3.3 million continuous word forms culled from 3,387 texts generated between mid-1989 and the end of 1990, such as newspaper articles, leaflets, interviews, speeches, and parliamentary minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Through the Institute of the German Language\u2019s website one can access this <em>Wende<\/em> corpus. The IGL provides a program for corpus analysis. COSMAS II allows searches for word forms, conjunctions, collocations, and concordances. It allows, too, for some of the little Wes to evade the one great We.<\/p>\n<p>For the poem \u201cReunification Corpus,\u201d I had COSMAS return all sentences that begin with \u201cwe.\u201d In order to get a more readable, concise from, I limited the sentence length to exactly six words: short enough for clear statements, long enough to allow for nuances. The result is not a single great We but many little ones. It is a self-contradictory, schizophrenic cacophony of voices of the reunification period that does not want a denouement and does not need one: \u201cWe remained contentious that day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>(Thanks to Julia Pelta Feldman for the translation of &#8220;Reunification Corpus.&#8221;)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8221; is a violent word. Not only because a We always requires that You or They be excluded: The violence of We is also an inclusive one. To say \u201cWe\u201d is to take possession of those one presumes to speak for. We consumes. And yet, it seems that the only way to resist We is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/0x0a.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/0x0a.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/0x0a.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0x0a.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0x0a.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/0x0a.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"https:\/\/0x0a.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/0x0a.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0x0a.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0x0a.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}