Englisches Seminar - Ruhr-Universität Bochum

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M.A.-STUDIUM (4. + 5. Studienjahr) LINGUISTIK Vorlesung --- --- Onysko Varieties of English: Different Voices – Same Language?, 3 CP 2 st. mi 12-14 HGB 30 (vgl. Vorl.-Nr. 050 608) “Who would have predicted that English would cease to be an ‘English’ language?” (Romaine 2006: 590) The current role of English as a global language is epitomized in its manifold varieties used in various parts of the world. This lecture will embark on a tour into different “Englishes” to show that a uniform conception of English as British or American Standard English fails to capture the fact of widespread variation in the language. While dialects characterize the use of English in its homelands, national varieties of English have come into being on different continents partly due to the controversial colonial heritage of the British Empire. More recently, the increasing socio-economic status of English, its concomitant institutionalization as a lingua franca of international communication, and its global spread as a common commercial voice has sparked some controversy based on concerns about linguistic hegemony. To steer through these manifold facets of the English language, our lecture will first of all discuss some of the attempts to categorize different varieties of English, question the concept of native speaker, and provide a possible synthesis of classification. Having set the theoretical frame, we will explore linguistic and sociohistorical characteristics of different varieties among the following main types: - Dialects of English on the British Isles and in the USA - Major contact varieties (English based Pidgin and Creole languages, contact between English and minority languages) - Varieties of English as a second language and official language (e.g. Indian English, Singapore English, etc.) - English as a global voice Since in many cases, English varieties emerge from scenarios of language contact, the lecture will put special emphasis on types and phenomena of language contact. An overview of relevant literature and other resources will be provided in the first session.
<strong>Seminar</strong>e 050 680 Onysko Varieties of English: Case Studies and Research, 5 CP 2 st. mi 14-16 GBCF 05/705 Building on the lecture on Varieties of English, this seminar will offer the opportunity to investigate individual varieties of English in more detail. In the first few sessions, we will discuss readings concerned with the role of English as a global language, and closely analyze case studies on dialectal, contact-induced, and multilingually grounded varieties of English. The remaining part of the seminar will provide a platform for the exchange of research based on participants’ interests (e.g. Maori English, Nigerian Pidgin English, Gaelic influence on Irish English, Maltese English, the influence of English on languages in Europe, English as an institutional language, English as a global language of popular culture, etc.). It is a further aim of the seminar to hone linguistic skills for detecting possible contact-induced features and to discern common patterns of variation emerging from the diverse and widespread uses of English. The general workload for the seminar includes reading assignments, discussion leading, a presentation and a research paper. Reading assignments, syllabus, a selected bibliography, and other relevant material will be circulated and made available online from the first session onwards. Recommended: Participation in lecture on Varieties of English 050 681 Onysko Cognitive Semantics, 5 CP 2 st. do 12-14 GB 5/39 Nord This seminar is going to explore the issue of how meaning is constructed in language. This tantalizing question has inspired a variety of approaches in modern linguistics, which try to solve the conundrum in terms of truth-conditional semantics and structural feature semantics, by way of emphasizing pragmatic and functional aspects of communication, and by blending elements of these approaches. The path we will take shall bring us closer to how meaning is created and represented in the mind of a speaker, which is the primary concern of a cognitive perception of language. As such, we will follow the development of prototype theory (e.g. why is a robin birdier than a kiwi), we will pursue the claim that metaphor is pervasive in
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