120225 SE MA Seminar - Focus: Historical Linguistics / Linguistics Seminar (2024W)
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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An/Abmeldung
Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").
- Anmeldung von Mo 09.09.2024 12:00 bis Mo 23.09.2024 12:00
- Abmeldung bis Do 31.10.2024 23:59
Details
max. 15 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
Lehrende
Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
By default, classes will take place on site and in person.
- Mittwoch 09.10. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Mittwoch 16.10. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- N Mittwoch 23.10. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Mittwoch 30.10. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Mittwoch 06.11. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Mittwoch 13.11. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Mittwoch 20.11. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Mittwoch 27.11. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Mittwoch 04.12. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Mittwoch 11.12. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Mittwoch 08.01. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Mittwoch 15.01. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Mittwoch 22.01. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Mittwoch 29.01. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Information
Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
Participants will (a) contribute actively to class work, they will (b) carry out assignments, and they will (c) design and carry our research projects on the semantic history the word(s) they have chosen. This means they will report their work in oral presentations and submit final seminar papers. (d) Following the principles of open science, data samples retrieved from corpora, as well as any classifications, will be shared via our Moodle platform.Participants will not only be allowed, but encouraged and required, to use the online OED, various available corpora, as well as extant research literature.
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
Students will be assessed on the basis of:• assignments (10%)
• active participation (10%)
• a presentation: 20%
• extracted (and classified) data shared online: 10%
• a seminar paper (6,500-7,000 words): 50%Grading scale: 0–59.9% = 5; 60–69.9% = 4; 70–79.9% = 3; 80–89.9% = 2; 90–100% = 1Regular attendance and active participation are required (student are allowed to miss maximally two classes over the whole semester).
• active participation (10%)
• a presentation: 20%
• extracted (and classified) data shared online: 10%
• a seminar paper (6,500-7,000 words): 50%Grading scale: 0–59.9% = 5; 60–69.9% = 4; 70–79.9% = 3; 80–89.9% = 2; 90–100% = 1Regular attendance and active participation are required (student are allowed to miss maximally two classes over the whole semester).
Prüfungsstoff
Participants will demonstrate that they have familiarized themselves with the OED, that they know how to access and use relevant diachronic corpora, and that they have acquired principles of semantic analysis and the description of semantic change on the basis of extant literature.
Literatur
** Fitzmaurice, Susan M. 2016. Semantic and pragmatic change. In Merja Kytö & Päivi Pahta (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of English historical linguistics (Cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics), 256–270. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139600231.016)
Fortson, Benjamin W. 2008. An Approach to Semantic Change. In Brain D. Joseph, Richard D. Janda & Brian D. Joseph (eds.), The handbook of historical linguistics (Blackwell handbooks in linguistics), 648–666. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub. (DOI: 10.1002/9781405166201.ch21)
Nerlich, Brigitte. 2006. Metonymy. In Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, 109–113. Elsevier. (DOI: 10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/01008-7)
** Oxford English Dictionary. Using the OED. (https://www.oed.com/information/using-the-oed/. accessed: January 2024)
** Traugott, Elizabeth C. 2013-. Semantic Change. In Mark Aronoff (ed.), Oxford research encyclopedia of linguistics (Oxford research encyclopedias). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. (DOI:10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.323).
Traugott, Elizabeth C. 2006. Semantic Change: Bleaching, Strengthening, Narrowing, Extension. In Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, 124–131. Elsevier. (DOI: 10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/01105-6)
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**: Highly recommended (and ideally read even before the seminar)
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Fortson, Benjamin W. 2008. An Approach to Semantic Change. In Brain D. Joseph, Richard D. Janda & Brian D. Joseph (eds.), The handbook of historical linguistics (Blackwell handbooks in linguistics), 648–666. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub. (DOI: 10.1002/9781405166201.ch21)
Nerlich, Brigitte. 2006. Metonymy. In Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, 109–113. Elsevier. (DOI: 10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/01008-7)
** Oxford English Dictionary. Using the OED. (https://www.oed.com/information/using-the-oed/. accessed: January 2024)
** Traugott, Elizabeth C. 2013-. Semantic Change. In Mark Aronoff (ed.), Oxford research encyclopedia of linguistics (Oxford research encyclopedias). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. (DOI:10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.323).
Traugott, Elizabeth C. 2006. Semantic Change: Bleaching, Strengthening, Narrowing, Extension. In Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, 124–131. Elsevier. (DOI: 10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/01105-6)
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**: Highly recommended (and ideally read even before the seminar)
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Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
Studium: MA 812 [2];
Code/Modul: MA 4, MA 5;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0496
Code/Modul: MA 4, MA 5;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0496
Letzte Änderung: Mi 09.10.2024 18:05
Our first task will be to get a grip on the semantic meanings that words have conventionally encoded during their histories and to learn to distinguish them from the pragmatic meanings they could help to convey in specific utterance contexts. For that purpose, we shall hold OED definitions against examples of use attested in corpora. In a next step, we shall try to trace changes in the frequencies with which words were used to convey different meanings they were conventionally associated with. For that purpose, we shall try to identify syntactic or collocational clues by which the different meanings a word can express can be distinguished. Next, we shall try to identify the mechanisms involved in bringing the changes we have identified about (such as metaphorically or metonymically motivated re-analyses). Finally, we shall try to develop plausible hypotheses about the reasons for which word meanings may emerge, narrow, widen, change, or get lost.
During the first part of the seminar, we (a) learn to interpret entries in the OED and to derive systematic descriptions of conventionalized semantic meanings from them. We also (b) practice corpus work and learn how to make the most of online corpora, their interfaces, and the types of queries they allow. Finally, (c) we learn how to export corpus results into calculation programmes such as Excel, and how to use them for analysing and visualising our results. For each of these three tasks, students are given assignments that will be assessed.
For their seminar projects, participants select (sets of) words in accordance with their own preferences and interests and the recommendations of the instructor. They will develop systematic accounts of their semantic development. These accounts will contain quantitative analyses, interpretations of exemplary attestations, as well as discussions of the mechanisms that may have been involved in bringing observed changes about. They may also include informed speculations about possible deeper reasons underlying these changes.