TENDENCIES IN CONTEMPORARY GERMAN LANGUAGE
The course is a 6-credits-course consisting of a theoretical module of 30 hours (held in the 2nd semester).
- target of the course is to familiarize students with general knowledge about language variation and recent tendencies of contemporary German language.
- a further target of the course is a more profound study of some essential language varieties such as national standard varieties, gender languages, youth speech and other special languages used in German speaking areas.
- After a successful participation in the course students will have a good command of the different language varieties of contemporary German language
- Having participated successfully in the course students will be able to operate identification, classification and analysis of synchronic linguistic varieties of recent German.
Language level B2 in German language is required for participation.
The theory lecture (German Linguistics) starts in the 2nd semester (February 18, 2019).
In the class students will familiarize with fundamental knowledge about recent tendencies and developments of contemporary German language. Issues treated and debated in the module are the pluricentricity and national variations of German, gender languages, youth languages, mediolects, the influence of contact languages as well as discrepancies between colloquial speech and German standard language. During the lessons various examples of language varieties and special languages will be analyzed and discussed.
Ammon, Ulrich: Die deutsche Sprache in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Das Problem der nationalen Varietäten. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1995
Braun, Peter: Tendenzen in der deutschen Gegenwartssprache, Stuttgart/Berlin/Köln: Kohlhammer, 19984.
Efing, Christian / Neuland, Eva: Soziolinguistik der deutschen Sprache, Stuttgart: UTB, 2016.
Kessel, Katja / Reimann, Sandra: Basiswissen Deutsche Gegenwartssprache, Tübingen: Francke, 2017
Moraldo, Sandro M.: Deutsch aktuell. Einführung in die Tendenzen der deutschen
Gegenwartssprache, Roma: Carocci, 2004.
Gegenwartssprache 2, Roma: Carocci, 2011.
Neuland, Eva: Jugendsprache, Tübingen: Narr, 2008.
Further bibliographical and didactic material will be provided during the semester (Aulaweb).
Ricevimento: Will be comunicated in September 2018.
2nd semester (18 February 2019)
see Aulaweb and website www.lingue.unige.it
GERMAN LINGUISTICS
The theory lessons will be concluded by an oral exam in which the arguments treated during the class will be asked about. During the exam the students have to provide evidence of their profound knowledge of the arguments dealt with during the lessons, the designed texts and the materials published in Aulaweb.
Oral exam
Target group
The exam can be recognized as an optional exam (esame a scelta) in the first or in the second year of the master course in "Translation and Interpreatation" LM 94
Credits
The exam is equivalent to 6 credit points.
Languages
Lessons will be held in German language.
