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Lehrende/r: PD Dr. habil. Martina Lampert
Veranstaltungsart:
online: Proseminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
05.008.160
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Credits:
6,0
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Anmeldegruppe: Engl Ling 160
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
Participants registering for this proseminar should have attended the Introduction to English Linguistics, and it is strongly recommended that they have completed or are currently taking a Spoken English class.
To fulfill Active Participation in this digital course, students will have to thoroughly read an introductory textbook, divided up into week-by-week reading assignments, and send in some written tasks, such as answering study questions or write a short chapter summary.
To obtain credit, a reading report of a research article will have to be handed in as Studienleistung: Everybody will be free to choose a text according to their personal interest from a cross-section of scholarly papers, each expanding on one or another aspect of the topics covered in the textbook.
Inhalt:
This proseminar will provide a solid survey of the very stage in the historical evolution of English that is of immediate relevance for what might be called Modern Standard English, the form of English that we encounter and engage with most of the time. And what is more, Late Modern English is the period that is also deeply connected with the global spread of the English language, the ‘lingua franca of the modern age,’ witnessing the emergence of English varieties around the globe.
In this class, we will especially focus on the pertinent and prominent themes underlying the public discourse about the many critical and multifaceted themes of English on its way to become a standard national variety: Among them are ‘hot’ issues like the standardization and codification of English in the domains of pronunciation, grammar, and the lexicon, along with their ensuing instruction in the emerging school system—all of which gave rise to vivid debates and hard negotiation within and across diverse groups in English society. These discussions also included the status of and the (often hostile) attitudes toward the emerging national variants beyond the ‘model’ variety now known as English English, such as the Northern American varieties or Australian English.
Yet the class will also not lose sight of another critical characteristic of English prominently surfacing during the Late Modern time: While, as supra-regional variety, it is immediately associated with the ideology of the nation state—“a dialect with an army and a navy” as the saying goes—and is, thus, tacitly conceived as a holistic and unified ‘system,’ the English language has never been a linguistic monolith; quite the opposite, it has always included multiple varieties that unmistakably document diversity: regional and social, in registers and in styles, all of which are expressive of and affected by various and diverging sociocultural forces.
In this proseminar, special attention will be placed on the language regards that reflect the attitudes of contemporary language experts—grammarians, lexicographers, and ‘phoneticians’—revolving around fierce debates over what has been and has to be considered its proper, correct use. And though one might expect that such ideologies have long been overcome, we will instead learn that they are still very much alive and have in fact remained with us to this day: Indeed, many shibboleths of the Late Modern times keep surfacing not only in current university courses (like essay classes), but even more pronounced, it seems, in the foreign language classroom. In light of these observations, this course addresses a highly sensible topic and is of consequential relevance for all those who will become English teachers.
Empfohlene Literatur:
All course materials will be made accessible for participants in PDF form. Among others, they will include PowerPoint Presentations to introduce and survey the course topics or various how-to’s for the task assignments.
Digitale Lehre:
The class will be entirely digital, using the LMS-software of JGU at https://lms.uni-mainz.de.
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