Selected references

Bieswanger, M., Becker, A. 2021. Introduction to English Linguistics. 5th ed. Tübingen : Narr Francke Attempto.

Handford, M. 2016. Corpus analysis. In Z. Hua (Ed.), Research Methods in Intercultural Communication: A Practical Guide (pp. 311–326). Malden, MA: John Wiley.

Kortmann, B. 2020. English Linguistics. 2nd ed. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.

Mair, C. 2022. English Linguistics. 4th ed. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.

Sidnell, J. 2015. Conversation Analysis. In B. Heine and H. Narrog (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis (pp. 167-192), 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Szczepek Reed, B. B. 2012. Conversation Analysis and prosody. In C. A. Chapelle (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (pp. 1082–1086), Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal1311

Studienleistung:
regular attendance, oral presentation, and active participation.

Prüfungsleistung:
written exam (date to be announced in the course).

Linguistics is a discipline concerned with the scientific study of human language. The seminar Linguistics II is designed to introduce students to the theories and methods of (some of) the following fields: Semantics (the study of meaning) and Pragmatics (the study of language use); Historical Linguistics (the  study of language change over time); Conversation analysis (the study of talk-in-interaction); Prosody in conversation (the study of sound patterns in talk-in-interaction; Sociolinguistics (the study of the relationship between language and society); Applied Linguistics (the study of foreign language learning and teaching); and Corpus Linguistics (the study of language through corpora). In this course, students will learn to define key concepts and apply their knowledge to investigate various linguistic phenomena.