TY - BOOK AU - Warner,Chantelle TI - The pragmatics of literary testimony: authenticity effects in German social autobiographies T2 - Routledge studies in rhetoric and stylistics SN - 9780415501309 (hbk.) PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - German literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Social aspects KW - German language KW - Rhetoric KW - History KW - Germans KW - Ethnic identity KW - Pragmatics N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-206) and index; Autobiographical style, myth, and the practice of literary testimony -- Exemplarity effects: Feridun Zamaiglu's Leyla as a typical Turkish tale -- Mimesis effects: styling testimonial voices -- Immediacy effects: deictic shifts and point of view in Verena Stefan's shedding, Peter handke's hopeless unhappiness, and Ruth Kleger's still alive -- Narrativity effects: how Bernward Vesper's the Trip became an exemplary testimony to the German autumn of 1977 -- Addressivity effects: facework and deference in the literary testimonies of Chima Oji, Einasi Dikmen, and Feridun Zaimoelu ER -