Questions about Questions - Einzelansicht

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Veranstaltungsart	Seminar	Veranstaltungsnummer
SWS	2	Semester	SoSe 2019
Einrichtung	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Sprache	englisch
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Belegungsfrist	01.04.2019 - 20.05.2019 Belegung über PULS

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		Tag	Zeit	Rhythmus	Dauer	Raum	Lehrperson	Ausfall-/Ausweichtermine	Max. Teilnehmer/-innen
	Seminar	Do	10:00 bis 12:00	wöchentlich	11.04.2019 bis 18.07.2019	1.09.1.15			30

Kommentar	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. “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, QUESTIONS ARE EVERYWHERE. You use them when texting your friends via WhatsApp on your iPhone, when beginning to flirt with your crush on a romantic occasion and to propose to him/her later on (if all goes well), or to demand explanations after a painful break-up (if all goes wrong). These few examples alone show that questions are perhaps the most powerful device that language provides us with for socially interacting with each other. In this course, we will examine these powerful social objects. We will begin with really basic issues about their linguistic form, such as: - How do we form questions in English? - Which major types of questions exist/can we distinguish in English? - How do these types differ from each other in terms of their syntactic and semantic features? 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 perspective and see what we can DO with/by asking questions, what actions we can perform with them? 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."
Literatur	tba

Kommentar

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

“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, QUESTIONS ARE EVERYWHERE. You use them when texting your friends via WhatsApp on your iPhone, when beginning to flirt with your crush on a romantic occasion and to propose to him/her later on (if all goes well), or to demand explanations after a painful break-up (if all goes wrong).
These few examples alone show that questions are perhaps the most powerful device that language provides us with for socially interacting with each other.

In this course, we will examine these powerful social objects.
We will begin with really basic issues about their linguistic form, such as:

- How do we form questions in English?
- Which major types of questions exist/can we distinguish in English?
- How do these types differ from each other in terms of their syntactic and semantic features?

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 perspective and see what we can DO with/by asking questions, what actions we can perform with them?

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."

Literatur

tba

Strukturbaum

Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester SoSe 2019 , Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024