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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Günther Lampert
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.008.760
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
8,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 30
Registration group: ELing 760
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
In current linguistic approaches, both metaphor and metonymy are no longer considered just as a matter of words (preferably restricted to poetic texts) but rather as basic tools used in the conceptualization of our everyday lives. Metaphor is seen as crucially involving the mapping of concepts across two domains (such as from space to time in “the time will come”), and metonymy is considered a cognitive process where one conceptual entity provides access to another within the same conceptual domain (“lend me your ear”). Verbal irony on the other hand occurs when speakers say something that seems to be the opposite or at least something different of what they mean (a soccer player shouting “Great!” when s/he has just missed the goal).
The seminar will thus introduce participants to current trends in metaphor, metonymy and irony research (including the study of multimodal, i.e. visual metaphor, and especially to their use of in political rhetoric – metaphors can kill). In adddition we will also direct our attention to the potential that such an approach has for teaching purposes.
Detials of organization during first meeting. Note that the class will be held in P 206, which is the room equipped with computers, allowing us to use digitalized material in the study of metaphor, metonymy, and irony.
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