ang618 - The Language System

ang618 - The Language System

Institute of English and American Studies 6 KP
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Lecture
  • No access 3.02.175 - Show lecturers
    • Dr. Ilka Flöck, she/ her

    Thursday: 14:00 - 15:00, weekly (from 21/10/21)

Seminar
  • No access 3.02.172 - S Interlanguage Pragmatics: Studying EFL Learners' Pragmatic Competence Show lecturers
    • Dr. Ilka Flöck, she/ her

    Thursday: 12:00 - 14:00, weekly (from 21/10/21)

    “Hwæt sceolan we drinkan?”, what looks like an odd mixture of English and German is actually correct English – just more or less 1300 years old. One can still rather easily recognize the interrogative pronoun “what” only that the “hw” is nowadays reversed. “Sceolan” is probably a little hard to decipher at first glance, however at least for German natives it should – especially in combination with the last word of the question – be quickly identifiable as the equivalent to Modern English “shall” (or sollen – in OE the “sc” was pronounced as “sh”). The fellow who phrased this particular question therefore spoke perfect (Old) English, and yet how come that it looks more like a heavy German dialect than proper English? This issue will be one of the leading questions for this seminar. Where did the English language come from? Why is it even called English? Where did the languages before English go? Was there something like an “Old English period”? To answer those (and other questions) a period of language history lasting around 800 years will be examined. The focus will thereby not only lay with understanding the basics of Old English spelling, phonology and surface structure, but also in identifying key concepts of language contact and language change and how they have left traces within the everyday language we use.

  • No access 3.02.173 - Show lecturers
    • Nils Rademacher

    Tuesday: 10:00 - 12:00, weekly (from 19/10/21)

    The central topic of this seminar is to investigate language change. We will discuss roughly 1500 years focussing on periods that have conventionally been classified as "turning-points" in the linguistic history of the English language. Our inquiry will encompass processes of language internal change as well as the external influence as a result of language contact. The seminar itself will be presented as a downloadable podcast plus ppt-presentation, meaning that there is no weekly live session. However, we will meet a few times to clarify organizational matters and/or any questions that come up.

  • No access 3.02.174 - Show lecturers
    • Nils Rademacher

    Tuesday: 12:00 - 14:00, weekly (from 19/10/21)

    The central topic of this seminar is to investigate language change. We will discuss roughly 1500 years focussing on periods that have conventionally been classified as "turning-points" in the linguistic history of the English language. Our inquiry will encompass processes of language internal change as well as the external influence as a result of language contact. The seminar itself will be presented as a downloadable podcast plus ppt-presentation, meaning that there is no weekly live session. However, we will meet a few times to clarify organizational matters and/or any questions that come up.

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