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Instructors: Dr. Matthias Eitelmann
Event type:
hybrid: Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.008.200
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
8,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: Engl. Ling. 200
Contents:
Language varies considerably depending on the text type at hand. We use different language when writing a term paper – thus meeting the demands of register-adequacy –, than when having a conversation with our friends. A conversation with our friends differs from a conversation at a workplace. The language used in print media displays differences from the language used in online blogs. And what is more, each language user has their own idiolectal language features, which contribute to a speaker or writer’s individual language style.
This seminar explores language variation in terms of register and style by taking a wide array of different varieties into account: from spoken interpersonal varieties via written varieties to electronic varieties, which are characterized by their hybridity between spoken and written modes of communication.
Biber, Douglas & Susan Conrad (2019) Register, Genre, and Style. Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Pinker, Steven (2015) The Sense of Style. The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century. New York: Penguin.
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