Lehrende/r: PD Dr. habil. Martina Lampert
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: ELing S 200
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: To obtain credit, participants are expected to prepare two short (group) presentations in class: first, reviewing an article/chapter from current research into electronic registers; second, engaging in their own (group) project, they will carry out an analysis of an authentic sample from an e-subregister and then present their initial findings and insights in class, which will then be their exploratory work for their term papers. Details of organization and additional information will be available during the first meeting; study material will be provided for individual download in pdf format.
Inhalt: While laypeople’s comments on electronic, or internet, communication range from acknowledging it as the Digital Revolution to considering it a major risk to humanity, linguists may probably agree that if the internet is a revolution, it is likely to be a linguistic revolution. In this class, we will take a closer look at electronic communication from a register perspective, that is, as a situationally specified variety of the English language. Starting out from a survey of basic differences between (spoken) discourse and (written) text, this course will zero in on the situational conditions and the medial constraints typical of electronic ‘messages,’ comparing them to a cross-section from ‘traditional’ spoken and written communication, e.g., conversations or academic prose. And as this analysis will conclusively document, it is language-external characteristics that turn out to be the prime determinants of the linguistic ‘profiles’ distinguishing between the subregisters like emails, chats, forums, revealing recurrent patterns of organization which follow from situational conditions and communicative purposes and give rise to register, genre, and stylistic variation.
