OVERVIEW

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).

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

After a successful participation students will have a good command of the different language varieties of contemporary German language

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

- 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.

PREREQUISITES

Language level B2 in German language is required for participation.

TEACHING METHODS

The theory lecture (German Linguistics) starts in the 2nd semester (February 20, 2020).

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

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.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

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).

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MICHAELA BÜRGER-KOFTIS (President)

JOACHIM HANS BERND GERDES (President)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

2nd semester (20 February 2020)

see Aulaweb and website www.lingue.unige.it

Class schedule

GERMAN LINGUISTICS

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

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.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Oral exam

Exam schedule

FURTHER INFORMATION

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.