122227 SE Linguistics Seminar / MA historical & descriptive linguistics (2015W)
What and why: describing English and explaining it
Continuous assessment of course work
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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 We 16.09.2015 00:00 to Mo 21.09.2015 23:59
- Registration is open from We 30.09.2015 00:00 to Su 04.10.2015 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Sa 31.10.2015 23:59
Details
max. 21 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Monday
12.10.
10:00 - 12:00
Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
Monday
19.10.
10:00 - 12:00
Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
Monday
09.11.
10:00 - 12:00
Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
Monday
16.11.
10:00 - 12:00
Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
Monday
23.11.
10:00 - 12:00
Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
Monday
30.11.
10:00 - 12:00
Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
Monday
07.12.
10:00 - 12:00
Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
Monday
14.12.
10:00 - 12:00
Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
Monday
11.01.
10:00 - 12:00
Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
Monday
18.01.
10:00 - 12:00
Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
Monday
25.01.
10:00 - 12:00
Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
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.
Assessment and permitted materials
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.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
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.
Examination topics
Classroom introduction to empirical description and scientific explanation, guided classroom exercises, oral presentation of research projects and critical discussion, guided production of written papers.
Reading list
To be provided
Association in the course directory
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
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