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WiSe 2015/16
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Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
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01.10.2015 - 10.11.2015
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14:00 bis 16:00
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16.10.2015 bis 05.02.2016
1.19.1.16
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23.10.2015
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“It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.” (Eugene Ionescoin)
Questions are an almost ubiquitous and somewhat inescapable component of much of our daily lives. Whether in everyday talk, in courtroom hearings, in lectures, seminars and examinations, when texting your friends via WhatsApp on your iPhone, when beginning to flirt with your crush on a romantic occasion or proposing to him/her later on (if all goes well), or demand explanations after a painful break-up (if all goes wrong), to name but a few examples, QUESTIONS ARE EVERYWHERE. They are perhaps the most powerful device that language provides us with for socially interacting with each other.
In this course, we will examine linguistic and pragmatic aspects of these powerful social objects.
We will begin with really basic issues about their form, such as: What question types exist in English, and how do we form them syntactically? How do they possibly differ semantically?
We will then look at features that are taken to be typical of questions, such as a particular pitch movement or intonation (sometimes even straightforwardly called “question intonation”).
Finally, we will try to take a more pragmatic and interactional perspective and see what we can DO with questions, what actions we can perform with them? And what other forms may be used just like questions. In the end, we may want to ask ourselves what counts as a question after all? (If there’s time, we may also want to look at what respondents answers to questions can tell us about the questions they respond to.)
As you see, there are a number of questions about questions. It’s about time we address them, because "The only stupid question is the one that is not asked."
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