PLURICENTRICITY AND VARIATION IN GERMAN LANGUAGE
The course is a 6-credits-course consisting of a theoretical module of 36 hours (held in the 2nd semester).
After a successful participation students will have a good command of the different language varieties of contemporary German language
- 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, diatopic, diastratic and diaphasic varieties, youth speech and other special languages used in German speaking areas.
- After a successful participation 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.
- Aim of the class is to familiarize students with the most important methods of corpus linguistics used to investigate on lexis and grammatical structure of contemporary German language.
Language level B2 in German language is required for participation.
The theory lecture (German Linguistics) starts in the 2nd semester (February 20, 2020).
In the class students will familiarize with fundamental knowledge about the pluricentricity and national, diatopic, diastratic and diaphasic variations of German language, as well as about youth languages and the influence of contact languages and discrepancies between colloquial speech and German standard language.
During the lessons will be presented research methods of corpus linguistic used to explore lexical and grammatical structures of contemporary German language.
The program of the exams is valid according to the study regulations until February 2021.
Ammon, Ulrich: Die deutsche Sprache in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Das Problem der nationalen Varietäten. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1995
Andresen, Melanie / Zinsmeister, Heike: Korpuslinguistik, Tübingen: Narr, 2019.
Efing, Christian / Neuland, Eva: Soziolinguistik der deutschen Sprache, Stuttgart: UTB, 2019. (in corso di pubblicazione)
Löffler, Heinrich: Germanistische Soziolinguistik, Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2016.
Moraldo, Sandro M.: Deutsch aktuell. Einführung in die Tendenzen der deutschen
Gegenwartssprache 2, Roma: Carocci, 2011.
Neuland, Eva: Jugendsprache, Tübingen: Narr, 2008.
Neuland, Eva (Hg.): Sprache der Generationen. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, 2014.
Scherer, Carmen: Korpuslinguistik, Heidelberg: Winter, 2006.
Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung/ Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften (Hg.): Vielfalt und Einheit der deutschen Sprache. Tübingen: Stauffenberg, 2017.
"www.polyphonie.at
Further bibliographical and didactic material will be provided during the semester (Aulaweb).
Ricevimento: Go to professor's homepage: http://www.lingue.unige.it/?post_type=dipendente&p=2106
Ricevimento: Will be comunicated in September 2019.
MICHAELA BÜRGER-KOFTIS (President)
JOACHIM HANS BERND GERDES (President)
2nd semester (20 February 2020)
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.
