Lehrende/r: Prof. Dr. Guenther Lampert
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: Sem. Engl. Ling. Master
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
Inhalt: While most modern histories of the English language still subscribe to a view that foregrounds its descent from Germanic and the emergence of a standard language in one uninterrupted line of development residing in some national essence, new models have come to be suggested in recent years. From one such point of view, the history of English may be described in a very pervasive way as a history of language contacts of different kinds and in different steps: ranging from early Germanic or Anglo-Saxon contacts (or non-contacts) with the Celts, the Romans, and the Scandinavians, leading up to a cultural and a linguistic revolution (the rise of a written culture in a language that was set on its way to a profound typological change, from synthetic to analytic); accounting for the effects of the Anglo-Norman Conquest (partial bilingualism and the ensuing question of why English could survive in the first place) and the many ways in which Latin has served as a model for English over the centuries (in vocabulary, in grammar, in style, register, and genres). Moreover, the emergence of extraterritorial Englishes (like American, Australian, or New Zealand English) is seen as a consequence of dialect contact, of koinéization, and of founder effects, culminating in the development of entirely new languages (pidgins, creoles, mixed languages) under the influence of language contact and to the recent rise of new dialects (regional and ethnic), in both Britain and the US, as an effect of contact, leveling, diffusion, and crossing. Even the very equation of nation and language has been questioned and is increasingly replaced with such concepts as transnational or translingual English. This class will systematically survey the results of contact-induced changes in English at many levels and in many different varieties of the language. Though the time has not been fixed, the seminar wll most likely be on Friday 10-12.
