Universität Wien

122251 AR Linguistics Course (Advanced 1-5) - Appl. & TEFL / Hist. & Descr. (2015W)

Language production in English: syntax, discourse and dialogue

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Freitag 27.11. 16:00 - 19:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Samstag 28.11. 10:00 - 13:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Montag 30.11. 17:00 - 20:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
  • Dienstag 01.12. 17:00 - 20:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
  • Mittwoch 02.12. 17:00 - 20:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
  • Donnerstag 03.12. 17:00 - 20:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Please note: This course will be offered as a blocked seminar between Friday, 27 Nov to Thursday, 3 Dec 2015. - - -
In recent decades, there has been a rapprochement between the study of grammar in linguistics and the study of language production in psycholinguistics. Linguists, often claiming that their models have psychological reality and/or that they are modelling the language user, have supplied hypotheses for psychologists of language to test. Psycholinguists, in turn, have made discoveries about language production that some linguists have found relevant for their own work. The course will provide a general introduction to research in language production, followed by a deeper treatment of (a) incrementality, the gradual build-up of utterances through time, coupled to the observation that people often start talking before they have fully planned what they are going to say, (b) structural priming, the effect of previous lexical items and syntactic structures on the ongoing utterance, and (c) prediction or advance planning, the look-forward aspect of language production. These themes will bring us into ever closer contact with the context of speech and with the orientation to interactants in dialogue (rather than the individual speaker) that has characterized the work of the last fifteen years or so. The course will end with a consideration of the current integration of both linguistics and language psychology in the embrace of cognitive science.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Students will be assessed on the basis of a written analysis of a text to be conducted after the classes end and on their degree of active and relevant participation in classwork.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

The aim of this course is to provide insight into cross-fertilization between models of grammar and models of the speaker(-hearer). The approach will be functionalist in the sense that we will be trying to determine the extent to which the circumstances under which people communicate (with restrictions on their time, rivalry for the ‘floor’ in conversations, brains that think ahead, etc.) co-determine the structure of our clauses and sentences. Students will be made aware of major proposals in this field of study and of their implications for the study of English.

Prüfungsstoff

Readings, classroom discussions, joint analysis of samples of discourse, presentations

Literatur

Required (to be discussed in class)
Auer, Peter (2009). On-line syntax: Thoughts on the temporality of spoken language. Language Sciences 31 (1). 1-13.
Clark, Herbert H. (1994). Discourse in production. In Morton Gernsbacher (ed.), Handbook of Psycholinguistic Research, 985-1021. New York: Academic Press.
Dabrowska, Ewa (2014). Recycling utterances: A speaker’s guide to sentence processing. Cognitive Linguistics 25(4). 617-653.
Levelt, Willem J.M. (1999). A blueprint of the speaker. In Colin M. Brown & Peter Hagoort (eds), The Neurocognition of Language, 94-122. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Loebell, Helga & Kathryn Bock (2003). Structural priming across languages. Linguistics 41 (5). 791-824.
MacDonald, Maryellen C. (2013). How language production shapes language form and comprehension. Frontiers in Psychology. 4.226.1 (April 2013). Available at https://www.academia.edu/4472547/How_language_production_shapes_language_form_and_comprehension.

Optional background reading
Ferreira, Victor S. & J. Kathryn Bock (2006). The functions of structural priming. Language and Cognitive Processes 21. 1011-1029.
Pickering, Martin J. & Simon Garrod (2004). Toward a mechanistic psychology of dialogue. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27. 169-226.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: UF 344, ME 812; UF MA 06
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.3-223-225, ME4, MA5; UF MA 4B,
Lehrinhalt: 12-0195

Letzte Änderung: Do 09.01.2025 00:16