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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - According to a new study, the culture of debate in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament has changed significantly in recent years.
The tone had become rougher with the arrival of the AfD in 2016, the number of heckling had risen and outraged discussions were increasing, according to a study published on Monday by the linguist and political scientist Heidrun Kämper, which was commissioned by Südwestrundfunk and Deutschlandfunk have given.
Kämper compared 125 plenary minutes of the current legislative period up to July 2020 with all corresponding transcripts of the previous one, announced the two broadcasters.
According to the study, the language, tone and topics have changed.
It is much more provoked and insulted.
"It's not about political content, about political statements, but about staging," Kämper is quoted as saying.
For example, while the word “call to order” has been used 135 times in the current legislative period, it only appeared twice in the legislature.
Quiet was asked 137 times, in the previous legislative period this was only 39 times.
In addition, the issues of anti-Semitism and racism are much more common than before.
Terms like democracy, understanding democracy, being democratic were used more than twice as often.
Kämper heads the linguistic upheaval work area at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language in Mannheim.
She had already examined the debate culture for the first 100 days of the AfD in the Bundestag.
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