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122227 SE Linguistics Seminar / MA historical & descriptive linguistics (2015W)
What and why: describing English and explaining it
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max. 21 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
Lehrende
Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
- Montag 12.10. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
- Montag 19.10. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
- Montag 09.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
- Montag 16.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
- Montag 23.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
- Montag 30.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
- Montag 07.12. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
- Montag 14.12. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
- Montag 11.01. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
- Montag 18.01. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
- Montag 25.01. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
In this course we try to tackle the challenges involved in describing and explaining properties of English. We shall see that languages differ from many other phenomena in that their empirically observable manifestations (i.e. speech or written texts) contribute only a small proportion to what makes them manifestations of language rather than just sounds or visual patterns. Thus, we shall have to address the question how properties that languages assume in human minds come about and how they can at all be grasped. Apart from that, we shall try to explore how some properties of English ranging from sound patterns to meanings and pragmatic conventions can be explained. That is we shall not be content with discovering what English is like, but shall seek to understand why it is as it is.
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
Assessment will take the following aspects into account:
Written test at the end of the first month, classroom participation, bibliographical work, project design, reports on project work, oral presentations at the seminar conference, and a written seminar paper.
Written test at the end of the first month, classroom participation, bibliographical work, project design, reports on project work, oral presentations at the seminar conference, and a written seminar paper.
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
The course aims to make participants aware of the difference between observing and describing English on the one hand, and being able to explain and understand it on the other. More generally, it aims at making participants aware that also such familiar phenomena as languages are worthy of being denaturalized and made problematic. Rather than accepting that English happens to be as it is, participants will get the opportunity to learn that that the question why this is so can both be asked and addressed.
Prüfungsstoff
Classroom introduction to empirical description and scientific explanation, guided classroom exercises, oral presentation of research projects and critical discussion, guided production of written papers.
Literatur
To be provided
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
Studium: MA812; BA612; UF344
Code/Modul: MA 04; BA 6.2; UF 222
Lehrinhalt: 12-8124
Code/Modul: MA 04; BA 6.2; UF 222
Lehrinhalt: 12-8124
Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33