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Aspects of Sociolinguistics (AE_HSSOLI)- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Thomas Herbst
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Mon 8:30 - 10:00, C 601
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
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Das Hauptseminar Linguistics gehört in folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zu folgenden Modulen:
BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A (auf Anfrage!) Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien: Hauptmodul L-Gym Linguistics MA English Studies: Modul 10 MA Linguistik: Modul 2/11
Scheinerwerb: Referat + Hausarbeit
- Contents
- This class will focus on various aspects of sociolinguistics (including dialectology), including the following: Social and educational issues such as:
What your language gives away about your regional, social, educational background. Do some people have a superior competence of English than others? (Bernstein's theory of a language deficit vs. Trudgill's difference hypothesis) Educational issues How people accommodate to other people's speech. How accommodation may lead to language change.
Linguistic issues such as:
The emergence of Standard English Why it was so important in Britain to speak and RP and why it no longer is Media language in Britain and the US Differences between accents and dialects in the UK and the US: phonetics/phonology, morphology, grammar etc.
Participants are expected to be acquainted with the terminology, facts and theories that are taught in the Basismodul.
Topics for seminar papers will be available in the first session of the seminar.
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 25
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Monday, 12.2.2018, 19.00 and lasts till Saturday, 31.3.2018, 23:59 über: mein Campus.
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2018:
- Language Variation (LangVar)
- Department: Chair of English Philology and Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Herbst)
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