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122047 PS Proseminar Linguistics 2 (2019S)

Describing English as a lingua franca: Corpus and conversation

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Continuous assessment of course work

Moodle

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).

Registration is open from Fr 15.02.2019 00:00 to Sa 02.03.2019 18:00
Deregistration possible until Su 31.03.2019 23:59

Details

max. 25 participants

Language: English

Lecturers

Marie-Luise Pitzl-Hagin

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

N.B. Presentations are held as a mini-conference in one long session on Fri, June 7 (16.00-21.00). Attendence of this mini-conference is mandatory. Please ONLY REGISTER for this course if you have time to attend the entire session on Fri, June 7.

Tuesday 19.03. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Tuesday 26.03. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Tuesday 02.04. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Tuesday 09.04. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Tuesday 30.04. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Tuesday 07.05. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Tuesday 14.05. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Tuesday 21.05. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Tuesday 28.05. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Friday 07.06. 16:00 - 21:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Tuesday 18.06. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Tuesday 25.06. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

In this course, you will engage with and carry out descriptive research on English as a lingua franca (ELF). After an introduction to ELF, students will be made familiar with language corpora and basic principles of corpus linguistics as well as with key concepts of conversation analysis that are relevant to the study of spoken interactions. Students will be introduced to VOICE (the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English), a one-million word corpus of spoken ELF interactions. For their term papers, students will carry out small individual research projects in which they analyze an aspect of ELF interactions in VOICE. For this purpose, some students will draw on corpus linguistic methods whereas others will rely more extensively on discourse analytic, conversation analytic and interactional sociolinguistic methods.

Assessment and permitted materials

Continuous assessment

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Course evaluation is based on:
• class participation, required reading, assignments & presentation (30 %)
• paper proposal with research log (20 %)
• term paper with research log (50 %)

The minimum requirements for passing the course are:
(a) regular class attendance (max. 2 absences)
(b) handing in paper proposal and other assignments on time
(c) giving presentation (on set date)
(d) handing in term paper with research log (on time)
(d) refraining from plagiarism in all tasks
(f) attaining a minimum of 60 % of all course points.

Examination topics