120119 SE Linguistics Seminar (222) = Seminar Linguistik/BA Thesis (2009W)
Communicative practices
Continuous assessment of course work
Labels
Diese LVA gilt für das Masterstudium English Language and Linguistics nach UG2002, das Diplomstudium (UniStG) und das Lehramt UF Englisch (UniStG).
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 Tu 15.09.2009 14:00 to Mo 28.09.2009 14:00
- Registration is open from Fr 02.10.2009 14:00 to Th 08.10.2009 14:00
- Deregistration possible until Sa 31.10.2009 23:59
Details
max. 18 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Wednesday
14.10.
08:30 - 10:00
Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Wednesday
21.10.
08:30 - 10:00
Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Wednesday
28.10.
08:30 - 10:00
Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Wednesday
04.11.
08:30 - 10:00
Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Wednesday
11.11.
08:30 - 10:00
Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Wednesday
18.11.
08:30 - 10:00
Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Wednesday
25.11.
08:30 - 10:00
Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Wednesday
02.12.
08:30 - 10:00
Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Wednesday
09.12.
08:30 - 10:00
Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Wednesday
16.12.
08:30 - 10:00
Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Wednesday
13.01.
08:30 - 10:00
Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Wednesday
20.01.
08:30 - 10:00
Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Wednesday
27.01.
08:30 - 10:00
Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
As an introduction to the ethnography of communication, this course examines cultural variation in communicative practices across a number of different languages and contexts, that is, the different uses which can be made of verbal and non-verbal semiotic resources to represent and communicate thoughts, attitudes and values and to express identities. Students will first be introduced to certain concepts such as 'communicative situation', 'culture' and 'identity' before moving on to discuss variation in the categorisation and realisation of speech acts such as greeting, complimenting or requesting; turn-taking and address systems; cultural markers; intertextuality; the negotiation of roles and identities; kinesics (gesture, facial expression); intercultural communication and pragmatic failure (misunderstandings).
Assessment and permitted materials
i) an essay to be handed in in January (about 6,000 words) and (ii) a classroom task, details of which will be provided during the first session
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Participation in this seminar should help sensitize language students to the nature and scope of intercultural variation in communicative behaviour and to their own personal and cultural communicative styles.
Examination topics
After several introductory sessions, the seminar will consist largely of the presentation and analysis of numerous examples, including those provided by the students themselves.
Reading list
Students should prepare for the seminar by reading at least Chapters &, 2 and 4 of Muriel Saville-Troike The Ethnography of Communication : An Introduction (Third Edition, 2002. Oxford: Blackwell). Books available at FACULTAS bookshop.
Association in the course directory
Diplom 343, UF 344, BA 612
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