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Lehrende/r: Prof. Dr. Günther Lampert
Veranstaltungsart:
online: Proseminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
05.008.160
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Credits:
6,0
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Anmeldegruppe: Engl Ling 160
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.
Nähere Informationen hierzu entnehmen Sie bitte www.info.jogustine.uni-mainz.de/senatsrichtlinie
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
All information pertaining to this class will be found on the platform https://lms.uni-mainz.de, which you can access via your zdv account once you have been registered as a regular participant.
The platform is first of all meant to serve what is now being called asynchronous teaching, but it seems to have a potential for synchronous communication as well.
Asynchronous communication here means that you can study and work on the course material at whatever time of day you prefer.
All information pertaining to this class will be found on the platform https://lms.uni-mainz.de, which you can access via your zdv account once you have been registered as a regular participant.
The platform is first of all meant to serve what is now being called asynchronous teaching, but it seems to have a potential for synchronous communication as well.
Asynchronous communication here means that you can study and work on the course material at whatever time of day you prefer.
Personally, I will be available via e-mail at lampert@uni-mainz.de any time. I will try to respond to your queries immediately after receiving them.
At regular intervals, you will receive newsletters (announced via e-mail), which are meant to provide essential information. Please read them carefully!!
This class is a historical proseminar (3 credit points, 90 hours workload, type of exam: Studienleistung, not a Modulprüfung).
Inhalt:
This asynchronous on-line class will systematically survey the manifold results of contact-induced changes that have affected English at practically all levels of the language. In fact, the history of English can be described in terms of a long series of language and dialect contacts:
The story begins with early Germanic and Anglo-Saxon contacts (or non-contacts) with the Celts, the Romans, and the Scandinavians (Vikings), on the continent and in Britain (from 300-1100 CE)
This long period is then followed by consequences of the Anglo-Norman Conquest of 1066, resulting in large-scale English-French contacts, prompting the question of why English could survive the Conquest in the first place, and leading to a restructuring of the entire English vocabulary, by both loss and importation.
Next, we will have to observe the many ways in which Latin (and, to a lesser degree, Greek) came to serve as models for English over the next few centuries (in vocabulary, in grammar, in style, register, and genres).
The story then culminates in the emergence of many extraterritorial Englishes (like American, Australian, or New Zealand Englishes), as a consequence of dialect contact, and entirely new languages (pidgins, creoles, mixed languages), under the influence of (forced) language contact in the eras of colonization and post-colonization.
Finally, we observe the recent rise of new dialects (regional and ethnic), in both Britain and the US, as an effect of contact, levelling, and diffusion, and under the impact of what has come to be called superdiversity.
Empfohlene Literatur:
All the necessary material will be found at lms@uni-mainz.
Digitale Lehre:
Participants should have attended the Introduction to English Linguistics and (ideally) the Spoken English class.
To fulfill the requirements of Active Participation in this entirely digital course, participants will, in the first section, have to read a couple of chapters from introductory textbooks or handbook articles (Text Pool 1); divided up into week-by-week reading assignments accompanied by some written tasks, such as answering a few study questions or write a short abstract.
All the course material will be made accessible to participants in pdf form on the lms-platform. It will include introductory readings, PowerPoint Presentations to introduce and survey the course topic, links to videos, as well as a pool of texts for participants’ final task.
To obtain credit, a summary of two research articles selected from Text Pool 2 will have to be handed in by August 8, 2023. Everybody will be free to choose these articles according to their personal interests, expanding on an aspect of the topics covered in the introductory chapters. This summary will have to be 600 words long.
There will be no other final test of whatever sort.
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