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Lehrende/r: PD Dr. habil. Martina Lampert
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
05.008.200
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Credits:
8,0
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 (spoken) discourse and (written) text, 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 take part in two short in-class (team) activities: a (PowerPoint supported) article review; and engaging in their own close comparative analysis of a sample of free choice, students will present their initial findings of an individual or a team 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:
This seminar will take a closer look at the two major subsystems of communication via language and explore their systematic differences:
Talk in direct face-to-face interactions not only features specific verbal phenomena such as discourse markers, well, okay etc., so-called non-clausal units, phrases, or single words, or ‘sound objects’ like uh and hm along with typical structural particulars, among them restarts, interruptions, repeats, or pauses, but speakers also engage in diverse non-verbal activities, e.g., eye-contact, manual gestures, facial expressions, or body posture, as vital component sources of information.
By contrast, texts, apart from their typical verbal design, composed of complete and complex syntactic structures that are visually represented as alphabetical (letters) and non-alphabetical symbols (punctuation marks), call 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.
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