The concept of the GDR in modern virtual German-language communication (based on the material of the social network "Instagram")

Tumanova Ekaterina Olegovna

This research is devoted to publications and comments by German-speaking authors on the social network "Instagram" containing hashtags related to the history and everyday life in the GDR. We have selected key lexemes that verbalize the concept of the GDR in modern virtual communication and are units of the cultural memory of the German people. The article describes in detail the four main groups of units of historical memory of the East Germans.

Keywords:GDR, Instagram, concept, hypertext, lexemes.