120084 SE Linguistics Seminar / BA-Arbeit / MA historical & descriptive linguistics (2010W)

Corpus-based Analyses of Linguistic Variation

11.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Continuous assessment of course work

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Registration is open from Mo 13.09.2010 00:00 to Su 26.09.2010 23:59
Registration is open from We 29.09.2010 00:00 to Tu 05.10.2010 23:59
Deregistration possible until Su 31.10.2010 23:59

Details

max. 18 participants

Language: English

Lecturers

Päivi Irmeli Pahta

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Thursday 14.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
Thursday 21.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
Thursday 28.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
Thursday 04.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
Thursday 11.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
Thursday 18.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
Thursday 25.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
Thursday 02.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
Thursday 09.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
Thursday 16.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
Thursday 13.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
Thursday 20.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
Thursday 27.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The goal of the seminar is to introduce diachronic pragmatics, a young and relatively unknown discipline, which constitutes an interface between two well-established areas of linguistic investigation: pragmatics and historical studies. First, the aims and methodological assumptions of the discipline will be presented with special emphasis on the main aim of historical pragmaticists, i.e. investigating old documents in search for traces of orality. In the course of the seminar the students will work on individual projects geared at analysing historical data (literary texts, diaries, letters, etc.) within the framework of diachronic pragmatics in order to establish the degree of "pragmaticity" of the old sources.

Assessment and permitted materials

Class participation; oral paper presentation; final written essay

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The aim of the course is to grasp the interface between the methodologies traditionally employed by synchronic pragmatics and their applications to the new field of diachronic pragmatics coping with “bad data”, i.e. the analysis of spoken language of the past on the basis of written sources.

Examination topics

Oral presentations of assigned topics followed by a discussion and a written version of the paper.

Reading list

Reading for the first session: Chambers, J.K. 2002. Studying language variation: An informal epistemology. In: J.K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill and Natalie Schilling-Estes (eds.), The Handbook of Language Variation and Change, 3-14. Oxford: Blackwell (or later editions). Other readings will be announced during the course.

Association in the course directory

Studium: Diplom 343, UF 344, BA 612, ME 812;
Code/Modul: 222, 226/228, 236/238, 721-723, 821, BA8, ME4;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0211

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