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050 620 Busch
Pidgins and Creoles, 3 CP
2 st. do 16-18 GABF 04/614 Süd
Within the field of language contact, pidgins and creoles constitute very interesting
cases. Having developed mainly during the era of European seafaring, which was
connected to the exploration, colonization and exploitation of different American,
African and Asian regions, they can be found on all continents today. In this respect,
Jamaican Creole, significantly popularized by Bob Marley and his music, is a wellstudied
and often cited example.
This course is intended to introduce students to the interesting and wide field of
pidgin and creole studies. Different issues relating to the origin, structure and
sociolinguistics of pidgin and creole languages will be treated. Furthermore, some
pidgins and creoles will be analyzed more closely in terms of their structure with the
help of written material, whereas the main focus will be on the variety of Jamaican
Creole.
Students are required to turn in a written assignment in order to obtain their credits.
050 622 Zumhasch
Exploring Spoken English, 3 CP
2 st. fr 14-16 GABF 04/614 Süd
This course explores the characteristics of spoken English from a range of different
genres, such as narrative, language-in-action, service encounters, de<strong>ba</strong>te and
argument, or decision-making. We will study how to transcribe and analyze data from
a corpus of natural spoken English from a conversation analytic perspective.
Conversation analysis studies the way talk in interaction is structured and organized
and considers aspects like turn taking, adjacency pairs and preference organization,
repair mechanisms, or opening and closing conversation.
Students can obtain the required credit points by submitting a short orthographic
transcript and a written data analysis.
A bibliography and further readings will be made available via Blackboard.