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Lehrende/r: PD Dr. habil. Martina Lampert
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
05.008.200
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Anmeldegruppe: ELing 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 state-of-the-art introduction to the situational and functional characteristics of both speech and writing, which will include reading of seminal articles from a small cross-section of expert studies as exemplary investigations into both speech and writing, 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 in-class (team) activities: a (PowerPoint supported) article or chapter review; engaging in their own (group) research on an aspect of free choice from a cross-section of text and discourse exemplars, doing their own close comparative analysis of their distinctive features, students will present their initial findings of an individual or a group research project, which will then serve as a sound basis for their term papers.
Details of organization and study material will be available by the first meeting.
Inhalt:
The (notion of the) sentence has always been at the center of linguistic analysis, and both academic and school grammars consider it the basic unit of language structure. Yet, as the numerous attempts at its definition do not fail to demonstrate, the concept seems to be problematic overall as a self-contained and explanatory unit of language: Meaningful communication regularly manifests itself in (written) text, which encompasses sequences considerably larger than a sentence, and (spoken) discourse, which typically comes in smaller and less ’orderly’ chunks than the canonical sentence.
Looking ‘above’ sentence, we will in this seminar explore the diverse structures that ‘build up’ texts: Apart from its typical verbal design, composed of complete and complex syntactic structures that are visually represented as alphabetical (letters) and non-alphabetical symbols (punctuation marks), writing calls on a variety of vision-based formats like patterns of organization on a two-dimensional display (layout, tables, figures etc.). And, increasingly in the new technologies, ‘writing’ also goes beyond static spatial arrangements: In the course of the digital literacy (r)evolution, various dynamic options have developed that functionalize time-/motion-based devices and implement sophisticated non-linear techniques that fundamentally restructure the text format, as in hypertext.
Direct face-to-face interactions, such as casual conversations, by contrast, overwhelmingly feature verbal phenomena ‘below’ the sentence – so-called non-clausal units, phrases, or single words. We will, then, deal with discourse markers, such as well, okay etc., or ‘sound objects’ like uh and hm along with typical structural particulars, among them hesitations, restarts, interruptions, repeats, or pauses. In addition, we will also account for the fact that speakers regularly engage in diverse non-verbal activities, e.g., eye-contact, manual gestures, facial expressions, or body posture, as vital component sources of information in discourse.
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