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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martina Schrader-Kniffki
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
06.FUE.0702_1
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
6,0
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
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Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie zzgl. Bevorzugung höherer Fachsemester
Requirements / organisational issues:
Prerequisites for participation in this seminar are active regular participation as well as the willingness to read German and English scientific texts; depending on the subject studied, it should also be possible to read texts in the respective study languages.
Furthermore, an interest in empirical research is desirable as well as the possibility to use a smartphone with a camera.
Contents:
Different definitions are known for the sociolinguistic concept of Linguistic Landscapes:
"...study of the visible representation of multiple languages in a globalised world. (Pütz/Mundt 2019)
"[...] the LL of individuals or sign initiators are not simply defined through physical space, but also through 'electronic space, global travel, media awareness and usage, popular culture, as well as the virtual space of the Internet" (Bolton 2012: 30)
The definitions selected here mention as keywords languages, public space and virtual space; but also travel and popular culture. Thus the study of linguistic landscapes becomes a relevant topic of this interdisciplinary seminar on tourism.
The first step will be to read texts on the connection between Linguistic Landscapes and tourism in order to understand the phenomenon theoretically as well as to get to know methodological aspects for its investigation. The aim is to develop awareness of phenomena, content, text-image relationships and functions of multilingual public signage in tourist spaces.
Based on this knowledge, two excursions are planned for this seminar, the dates, objectives and contents of which will be discussed in the first session. During these excursions, the language landscapes will be observed and explored on site; specifically, a corpus of photographs of the respective 'landscapes' will be created, which will then be presented in the seminar session and can then be used for homework.
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