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Lehrende/r: Dr. Florian Dolberg
Veranstaltungsart:
Proseminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
PS Eng Ling
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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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:
This course is geared towards students who have a pronounced interest in linguistics, who are comfortable with reading a fair amount of at times demanding scientific literature, who are willing to obtain and share information beyond what is directly offered in the seminar, and who are in the habit of freely sharing their insights (and difficulties) both in class and on-line.
All important technical and administrative information wil be relayed in the first session. Participants unable to attend the first session are required to obtain it from their peers.
Participants are required to fulfil all of the following requirements in order to obtain credit:
complete preparatory reading assignments prior to each session (this entails making notes and annotations),
discuss the relevant texts prior to class on ReaderPlus (i.e. at least one posting on topic per person per week by saturday noon),
actively and regularly partake in in-class discussions on the basis of these postings, notes and annotations,
collaboratively build and present an acceptable scientific poster on one topic in Construction Grammar,
evaluate the posters presented by others as well as
write an acceptable empirical term-paper.
Inhalt:
Construction Grammar (CxG) developed about two and a half decades ago in explicit opposition to then-prevalent componential or modular theories of grammar. The latter assert language is cognitively totally distinct from all other mental functions and that different aspects of language – such as sound structure vs. meaning vs. syntax – are mentally processed in, and hence are best described as, separate components or modules. Each of these modules is said to consist of its own set of elements (e.g. phonemes in phonology, or word forms in syntax) on the one hand, and a similarly module-specific set of rules, defining how these units may be combined on the other.
CxG takes issue with both these assumptions: CxG attempts to build a model of grammar that is consistent with all other modes of cognition, based on evidence suggesting that humans have one cognitive apparatus for all modes of cognition rather than several separate ones for vision, smell, language, etc. Moreover, CxG does without the – possibly spurious – opposition of linguistic elements (i.e. building blocks – phonemes, morphemes, words, phrases) versus an entirely separate set of rules (‘blueprints’) delineating how these units may be combined. Rather, as a functional approach to language, CxG holds that whatever ‘rules’ a language appears to have, these are not entities in their own right, but second-order phenomena derivable from language use alone.
In a way, CxG is grammar without rules. How this works? Sign up and find out!
Empfohlene Literatur:
Recommended and required readings will be relayed in the first session.
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