“…The main criterion for corpus generation was that of the mutual communication context (Busse & Teubert 1994: 23), that is, the explicit focus in terms of content on one of the five social and economic-political crises since 1973. All the relevant texts were digitized and, where necessary, transformed into machine-readable documents, as well as provided with a meta-data head, so that it was possible to flexibly build sub-corpora according to research interest (see for example Scholz & Wengeler 2012;Ziem et al 2013). The corpus-management program INGWER, which was developed in collaboration with semtracks, enabled systematic control of the corpus (for details see Ziem et al 2013).…”