Lehrende/r: Dr. Ulrike Schneider
Veranstaltungsart: Proseminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan: PS Eng Ling
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 45
Anmeldegruppe: PS Engl. Ling.
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007. Nähere Informationen hierzu entnehmen Sie bitte www.info.jogustine.uni-mainz.de/senatsrichtlinie
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: You need to have taken part in - and passed - the introductory course to English Linguistics! Otherwise, this class requires: - Handing in regular homework assignments. - Planning and teaching an entire session as a group. - Active participation in class. - A final term paper.
Inhalt: From the blurb of Word-Formation in English by Ingo Plag - which will be our main textbook: This book is an introduction to the study of word-formation, that is, the ways in which new words are built on the bases of other words (e.g. happy - happy-ness), focusing on English. The book's didactic aim is to enable students with little or no prior linguistic knowledge to do their own practical analyses of complex words. Readers are familiarized with the necessary methodological tools to obtain and analyse relevant data and are shown how to relate their findings to theoretical problems and debates. The book is not written in the perspective of a particular theoretical framework and draws on insights from various research traditions, reflecting important methodological and theoretical developments in the field. I couldn't have put it any better - if you replace book with course, this is the exact description of what we will be doing in class.
Empfohlene Literatur: Bauer, Laurie (1983): English Word-formation. Cambridge: CUP. Denham, Kristin and Anne Lobeck (2013): Linguistics for Everyone. An Introduction. (2nd ed.): Wadsworth. Finegan, Edward (2012): Language: Its Structure and Use (6th ed.): Wadsworth. Katamba, Francis (2005): English Words. Structure, History, Usage. (2nd ed.). London and New York: Routledge. Plag, Ingo (2003): Word-Formation in English. Cambridge: CUP.
