Lehrende/r: PD Dr. habil. Martina Lampert
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Credits: 2,0
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: ELing 760
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: After a state-of-the-art introduction, this class will adopt a decisively empirical stance and a ‘learning by doing’ method to empirical research in form of small-scale case studies. To obtain credit, participants are expected to prepare two short (group) in-class activities(of about ten minutes each per participant): a (PowerPoint supported) state-of-the-art review on a topic centering on multiple modes; and, engaging in their own (group) research on an aspect of free choice, students will present their initial findings of an individual or a group research project (which will then serve as a sound basis for participants’ potential term papers). Details of organization and study material will be available by the first meeting.
Inhalt: This (research) seminar will take a closer look at and introduce participants to a fairly recent approach in linguistics: For one, its focus will be on the multiple modes that make up direct face-to-face interactions, acknowledging the obvious fact that in an(y) act of speaking interlocutors will necessarily draw on all the dimensions of communication available to speech. Apart from the verbal repertoire, non-verbal sources of information such as the prosodic cues of pitch contour or variation in loudness as well as eye-contact, manual gestures, facial expressions, and body posture prove vital components in discourse. In addition, the emerging study of multimediality, targeting printed and electronic text, will provide another strand of research to be covered in the seminar: The language-image link in printed media, functionalizing spatial displays, typography, and colors will be a central topic of discussion as will be the structural changes in the communicative practice of electronic communication.
