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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
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).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Friday 27.11. 16:00 - 19:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Saturday 28.11. 10:00 - 13:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Monday 30.11. 17:00 - 20:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
  • Tuesday 01.12. 17:00 - 20:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
  • Wednesday 02.12. 17:00 - 20:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
  • Thursday 03.12. 17:00 - 20:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

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.

Assessment and permitted materials

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.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

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.

Examination topics

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

Reading list


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.

Association in the course directory

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

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