Eine diskursanalytische Untersuchung zur Volkszählung von 1890 am Beispiel des Aussiger Anzeigers und der Zeitung Česká stráž

Considering the increasingly turbulent coexistence of the German-speaking population and the Czech-speaking population of the Bohemian lands in the 19th century, it seems useful to explore when the notions "nationality" and "nation" started to spread in the public. When searching for the answer to this question, particularly daily as well as weekly newspapers are helpful because they were the dominant mass media in the 19th as well as at the beginning of the 20th century. Thus, on the one hand newspapers reflected the public discourse, on the other hand they were also shaping it to a large extent. This paper therefore analyses the public discourse on the 1890 census in one German-language newspaper and one Czech-language newspaper from Bohemia, in order to see, whether or to what extent the categories "nationality" and "nation" had already been present in public discourse. The comparative approach is essential in order to show the discourse from a more complex perspective. In the paper, the main attention is being paid to the analysis of argumentation.