Talk:Sitz im Leben

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The term decreases/goes back on the German Protestant theologian Hermann Gunkel, the founder of the religion-historical school. Today the term is used also outside of the theological research, whenever it concerns to examine a text for its sociologically relevant aspects. In linguistics the seat in the life is examined and determined today by the text pragmatics.

Example

The seat in the life of a Abzählreimes („Ene mene Miste… “) is to select from a group of children one which may make the beginning with a play.

-- The Anome 09:36, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

sitz: meaning

'Setting' is a bit imprecise. It really refers to a precise and relatively static position, 'place, domicile'. Sitz im Leben is a silly term, which can be and has been dignified over the years by people referring to it reverently as a 'specialist term'. If one espouses the idea that a psalm, for example, has its origin in the temple ritual, then the word 'origin' seems to me more appropriate than 'Sitz', not least because it does not preclude the possibility that the psalm may set out, like words themselves, on a wonderfully meandering social-historical-cultural journey. Everything starts somewhere, but it doesn't have to stay there. Pamour (talk) 14:58, 10 September 2011 (UTC)