Lehrende/r: PD Dr. habil. Martina Lampert
Veranstaltungsart: Proseminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan: PS Lang
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Credits: 2,0
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 45
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
Kontingentschema: 90%BA Linguistik 90% BA Linguistik, 10% Anglistik/Amerikanistik/Englische Sprachwissenschaft
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: 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: This class will take a decisively practical stance toward a linguistic phenomenon that is highly pervasive in both spoken and written language, but also differs strikingly in its constructional characteristics between these modalities: In texts, such constructions are typically marked off by parentheses (see some examples in the following lines) or dashes; however, from a functional point of view, also sequences that are delimited by commas (like non-restrictive relative clauses in English) have to be taken into consideration when a full-fledged account of this construction is at issue. In (casual) discourse, in contrast, so-called parentheticals or comment clauses (“I guess you know,” “frankly”) are especially prominent; these formulaic sequences are more suitable to the production and reception circumstances of the spoken modality. In the proseminar we will, on the basis of a small ‘corpus,’ discuss and analyze how speakers and writers differently ‘announce’ the construction to their addressees, what the listeners and readers will have to ‘do’ in order to process the construction as intended; to this end, we will test various strategies and methods of analysis, all the more so since parenthetical constructions are deplorably underresearched in linguistics in general. The class, then, may well acquire the character of an innovative ‘research project’ where participants are invited to contribute their ideas on methods and do practical small-scale surveys with test persons, a text- or discourse-based analysis, or a corpus study, which will then be their exploratory work for their term papers and/or their (PowerPoint or poster) presentation in class.
