Lehrende/r: PD Dr. habil. Martina Lampert
Veranstaltungsart: Vorlesung/Übung
Anzeige im Stundenplan: Hist.Linguistics
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 45
Anmeldegruppe: English Historical Linguistics
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: Participants of this class should have attended the Introduction to English Linguistics and (ideally) Spoken English; to obtain credit, a text analysis will have to be done and a final written test will have to be passed.
Inhalt: This proseminar will provide a solid survey of the stage in the emergence of English that is of immediate relevance for what might be called Modern Standard English and also of English as the lingua franca of the modern age as a result of its global spread. While focusing on the prominent issue of that time, standardization and codification of English in the domains of pronunciation, grammar, and the lexicon, the class will not lose sight of the fact that the English language, despite this term’s immediate association as a holistic and unified entity, has never been a linguistic monolith but has always been a collection of texts that have varied regionally and socially, in registers and in styles, affected by various sociocultural forces. Special attention will be on the changing (?) attitudes of contemporary language experts toward what has been considered the ‘correct’ use of language -- all the more so since many of these views (or sometimes biases) have remained issues of debate in university courses (like essay classes) and, maybe even more pronounced, in the foreign language classroom.
