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Instructors: PD Dr. habil. Martina Lampert
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.008.200
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
8,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 30
Registration group: ELing 200
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
After a solid state-of-the-art easy-to-read textbook introduction to the situational and functional characteristics of text and talk as well as the discussion of a small cross-section of expert studies as exemplary investigations from 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.
Contents:
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 or structural particulars like hesitations, 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.
Writing, in contrast, calls on a variety of vision-based signs like alphabetical (letters) and non-alphabetical symbols (punctuation marks), patterns of organization on a two-dimensional display (layout, tables, figures etc.) in addition to its typical verbal design, first and foremost its ‘orderly’ syntax, composed of complete and complex sentences. Increasingly in the new technologies, however, ‘writing’ goes beyond static spatial arrangements, functionalizing time-/motion-based devices and implementing sophisticated non-linear, dynamic options that have developed in the course of the digital literacy (r)evolution and result in fundamentally restructuring the text format, as in hypertext.
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