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Lehrende/r: PD Dr. habil. Martina Lampert
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
S: Eng.Linguistics
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
- | 30
Anmeldegruppe: S Engl Ling
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
To obtain credit, participants are required to actively participate in the seminar and carry out their own small-scale (group) research on an aspect of free choice: Focusing on selected characteristics of spoken discourse and using authentic data of native speaker interaction, they will have to present their initial findings (via PowerPoint or poster) in class, which will then be their exploratory work for their term papers.
Details of organization and additional information will be available during the first meeting; study material will be available for individual download in pdf format.
Inhalt:
A brief glance at authentic spoken language will reveal a high frequency of linguistic phenomena largely absent from written text -- discourse markers, back-channeling, hesitations, restarts, interruptions, repeats, pauses, co-construction -- just to name a few, are ‘flooding’ any normal speech event:
Well, we went to, we went to San Francisco because I remember, uh, uh, oh, what the heck’s the name of that hotel we stayed? Big hotel. Mm. Oh, anyway, uh, but we just stayed there a couple of nights and that’s all, and then we took the bus back, of course.
This seminar will first introduce participants to the state of the art of an English ‘grammar of conversation’: This solid survey will not only acknowledge the particular production circumstances of spoken language, i.e., the various performance phenomena of oral face-to-face interactions, but also link them with the wide range of linguistic phenomena and recurrent structures that are typically found in interactive face-to-face settings. In the course of the seminar, we will also pay due respect to a cross-selection of spoken contexts, from casual conversations over service encounters to public interviews.
Adopting a ‘learning by doing’ approach to empirical research, we will, in this class, work on authentic spoken data and employ the linguistic tools available for such analysis: classical discourse analysis as well as the more recent approaches of acoustic and gestural analyses.
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