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Lehrende/r: PD Dr. habil. Martina Lampert
Veranstaltungsart:
online: Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
05.008.200
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Credits:
8,0
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Anmeldegruppe: Engl Ling 200
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
After a solid recap and update of the essentials of spoken interaction in its relevant domains, the course will familiarize students with basic tools and fundamental skills to promote their self-determined study of authentic English data in exchanges with co-present interlocutors; this stage will include imparting the necessary methodological practices to successfully perform a multimodal analysis, such as transcription, acoustic analysis, or gesture annotation. Adopting a decisively empirical ‘learning by doing’ method, students will then engage in their own small-scale multimodal interaction case studies, and everybody in this seminar will have the opportunity to work on a topic tailored to their personal interest while reckoning on maximum individual support.
To be granted Active Participation, students are expected to hand in four written tasks in total during the semester: answering some study questions on a selection of introductory survey chapters; a critical reading report of a research article to be chosen from a large cross-section of current multimodality research; an outline of their own small-scale multimodal project; and finally a scientific poster that is supposed to present initial findings of and insights from their ongoing study. As Modulprüfung, a term paper of about 3,500 words will have to be handed in after the end of the term in PDF form, whose date of submission will be announced in due time.
Inhalt:
In this bachelor seminar, we will take a closer look at authentic communication in face-to-face settings: While on first sight speech may seem to clearly dominate such exchanges, they involve not only verbal language, in our case English, but also—and critically so—other modes that co-present participants constantly combine to convey their ultimate message, among them actions of the entire body as well as interactions with the physical environment. For one close-to-home example, just imagine yourself giving a PowerPoint Presentation in class.
But even if we were to limit our analyses to the verbal dimension in face-to-face interaction, we immediately have to recognize the ubiquitous presence of diverse activities beyond the verbal as vital component sources of information in spoken discourse. And as participants, in interactive exchanges, will systematically draw on ‘sign systems’ other than verbal resources to convey their messages, a full-fledged analysis of such exchanges will accordingly have to pay respect to all dimensions of communicative behavior: verbal expressions; prosodic cues like pitch and intensity along with emotional and attitudinal functions of intonation; co-ordinated embodied actions such as facial displays, gaze shifts, manual gestures, and changes in body posture; the manipulation of objects in the immediate surrounding, for instance, mugs in a coffee break encounter, maps and pointers during an architect meeting, or remote controls in a university lecture.
In this course, then, we will engage in a fairly recent comprehensive approach in linguistics—Multimodal Interaction Analysis, the academic study of meaningful behavior of co-present interlocutors in natural context. This strand of research, involving scholars from various disciplines, acknowledges, and takes seriously, the obvious fact that an(y) act of speaking necessarily features and, in fact, integrates all the dimensions of communication available to speech. Researchers have been studying a wide range of communicative events, from family dinner tables, over all kinds of workplace, to exchanges in cars and shops or during guided visits, and they found co-present interlocutors to always and simultaneously employ the diverse resources the acoustic and visual channels provide for—smoothly and routinely integrating verbal, vocal, and bodily modes of expression.
Empfohlene Literatur:
The essential course material will be made accessible for participants in PDF form. Among others, it will include the reading materials surveying the state of the art in the various strands of relevant research, PowerPoint Presentations to introduce the course topic(s), several how-to’s for the written tasks students are expected to carefully carry out as well as a pool of texts for course members to choose from. Additional texts will be provided on request; participants are, however, expected to thoroughly research up-to-date literature on their respective projects.
Zusätzliche Informationen:
This digital class will place a strong focus on written competences and, in particular, on academic writing, promoting participants’ skills in major research presentation formats. Students will also have the opportunity to do empirical research of their own, using authentic multimodal data from ready at hand internet sources; this exploratory work, which will occupy them over the second half of the term, will serve as the sound basis for their empirical term paper.
Further detailed updates on the course and its organization will be available shortly before the start of the term.
Digitale Lehre:
As announced, this bachelor seminar will be entirely digital, using the LMS-software of JGU at https://lms.uni-mainz.de.
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