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120053 SE Linguistics Seminar (222) = Seminar Linguistik/BA-Arbeit (2009S)

Retextualisations. Discourse analysis in practice.

11.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work

ECTS UF Englisch: 3P.
Diese LVA gilt für das Bachelorstudium nach UG2002, das Diplomstudium (UniStG) und das Lehramt UF Englisch (UniStG).

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 18 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 11.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
  • Wednesday 18.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
  • Wednesday 25.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
  • Wednesday 01.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
  • Wednesday 22.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
  • Wednesday 29.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
  • Wednesday 06.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
  • Wednesday 13.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
  • Wednesday 20.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
  • Wednesday 27.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
  • Wednesday 03.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
  • Wednesday 10.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
  • Wednesday 17.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07
  • Wednesday 24.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Besprechungsraum Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O2-07

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This seminar is intended to involve participants in an exploration of how English is used in the design of a variety of written texts. All kinds of texts will be possible cases for treatment: serious and not-so-serious ones, polemical, political, poetical ones, newspaper articles, advertisements, public notices, cooking recipes, works of fiction, and so on.

Assessment and permitted materials

The class demonstrations are intended to prepare the ground for individual participants to work on their own seminar essays which will be the main means of assessment, though some consideration will also be given to performance in class.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The purpose of the seminar is to develop awareness from analysis, to get participants to consider what motivates the different features of textual design and what effect these have on interpretation, and in general to think critically about how language is used to influence and persuade.

Examination topics

Participants will be divided into groups and each group will be asked to find examples for themselves of texts in English of a particular type and to demonstrate to their fellow students how they can be analysed and compared by making linguistic changes of one kind or another so as to as to produce an alternative 'retextualised' version. The result might be either a variant of the original text or a different kind of text altogether - it might, for example, be a simplification, a parody, a film script, a translation, and so on.

Reading list

Participants are expected to prepare for the seminar (before the first session) by getting thoroughly familiar with the survey section (pp. 1 - 82) of Widdowson's Discourse Analysis (OUP 2007).
During the seminar, more references will be provided to give guidance to participants for their own analyses of particular types of text.

Association in the course directory

1081, 222, 821, 238, 722

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