This volume looks at ten private autobiographies by (in part) literate eyewitnesses from the First World War with little writing practice to examine semantic-cognitive (coherence) and grammatical-structural (cohesion) textual contexts. It asks to which extent writers who usually only communicated orally were able to coherently and cohesively create long, complex texts by utilizing the means of written language.

Andrea Herbst, Regensburg, Germany.