Language Variation and Identity in the History of English - Single View

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Type of Course	Seminar	Number
Hours per week in term	2	Term	WiSe 2016/17
Department	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Language	englisch
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application period	04.10.2016 - 20.11.2016 enrollment

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		Day	Time	Frequency	Duration	Room	Lecturer	Canceled/rescheduled on	Max. participants
	Seminar	Mi	12:00 to 14:00	wöchentlich	19.10.2016 to 08.02.2017	1.19.1.16	apl. Prof. Dr. Wischer	21.12.2016: Akademische Weihnachtsferien 28.12.2016: Akademische Weihnachtsferien	30

Description	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. The English language, as it is used today, is not one uniform language. It varies a lot from one region to another, from one social group to another, and even from one situation to another. This language variation is the result of language change, which is often interrelated with issues of identity: the use of a particular accent, as e.g. RP in British English the choice of ‘learned words’ of Latin origin in the time of the Renaissance or the preference of certain grammatical forms or constructions in private or formal letters in Middle English. In this course, we will learn about how questions of identity can contribute to language change. We will also try to find out how such issues can be studied with regard to historical stages of a language. We may relate historical circumstances to comparable situations in Modern times. In addition to providing students with more in-depth and specialized knowledge on dialectal diversity and diachronic change in the English language, the purpose of this course is to enable students to apply sociolinguistic models and methods to various case studies. In the first session we will agree on the exact themes for each seminar considering the course topic and the interest of participants.
Literature	Texts to be read for each session will be announced on moodle.

Description

Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading.

The English language, as it is used today, is not one uniform language. It varies a lot from one region to another, from one social group to another, and even from one situation to another. This language variation is the result of language change, which is often interrelated with issues of identity: the use of a particular accent, as e.g. RP in British English the choice of ‘learned words’ of Latin origin in the time of the Renaissance or the preference of certain grammatical forms or constructions in private or formal letters in Middle English.
In this course, we will learn about how questions of identity can contribute to language change. We will also try to find out how such issues can be studied with regard to historical stages of a language. We may relate historical circumstances to comparable situations in Modern times. In addition to providing students with more in-depth and specialized knowledge on dialectal diversity and diachronic change in the English language, the purpose of this course is to enable students to apply sociolinguistic models and methods to various case studies.
In the first session we will agree on the exact themes for each seminar considering the course topic and the interest of participants.

Literature

Texts to be read for each session will be announced on moodle.

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