Unit name | Current Topics in Modern Sociolinguistics |
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Unit code | GERM30047 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Langer |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of German |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit will investigate salient features currently discussed in modern German sociolinguistics. The exact nature and number of topics may vary from year to year but it will typically include issues on the methodological problems of sociolinguistics, linguistic purism and "bad German")feminist linguistics, and diaphasic, diastratic and diatopic variation.
Aims:
Successful students will:
Two seminar hours per week across one teaching block (22 contact hours).
One of the following:
a) A written assignment of 3000 words and a two hour exam (50% each)
b) A written assignment of 3000 words (25%) and a three hour exam (75%)
c) One written assignment of 6000 words (or equivalent)
d) Two written assignments of 3000 words (50% each)
e) One oral presentation (25%) plus one written assignment of 1500 words (25%) plus one written assignment of 3000 words (50%)
Fleißige StudentInnen haben folgende Bücher auf dem Schreibtisch stehen und schmökern schon vor Kursbeginn ein wenig darin.
Riehl, Claudia M. 2004. Sprachkontaktforschung. Tübingen: Narr.
von Polenz, Peter. 1999. Deutsche Sprachgeschichte vom Spätmittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Band III. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter.
sowie: www.spsh.uni-kiel.de