Semester: Winter term 2019

3.02.172 S Variational pragmatics: Investigating (in-) directness across cultures and varieties -  

Event date(s) | room

• Donnerstag, 17.10.2019 8:00 - 10:00 | A14 1-112
• Donnerstag, 24.10.2019 8:00 - 10:00 | A14 1-112
• Donnerstag, 7.11.2019 8:00 - 10:00 | A14 1-112
• Donnerstag, 14.11.2019 8:00 - 10:00 | A14 1-112
• Donnerstag, 21.11.2019 8:00 - 10:00 | A14 1-112
• Donnerstag, 28.11.2019 8:00 - 10:00 | A14 1-112
• Donnerstag, 5.12.2019 8:00 - 10:00 | A14 1-112
• Donnerstag, 12.12.2019 8:00 - 10:00 | A14 1-112
• Donnerstag, 19.12.2019 8:00 - 10:00 | A14 1-112
• Donnerstag, 9.1.2020 8:00 - 10:00 | A14 1-112
• Donnerstag, 16.1.2020 8:00 - 10:00 | A14 1-112
• Donnerstag, 23.1.2020 8:00 - 10:00 | A14 1-112
• Donnerstag, 30.1.2020 8:00 - 10:00 | A14 1-112

lecturer

• Dr. Ilka Flöck, she/ her

Study fields

• Studium generale / Gasthörstudium

Lehrsprache
englisch

Anzahl der freigegebenen Plätze für Gasthörende
2

Für Gasthörende / Studium generale geöffnet:
Ja

Hinweise zum Inhalt der Veranstaltung für Gasthörende
This undergraduate course offers an introduction to the most prominent concepts and frameworks within the discipline of pragmatics (speech act theory, conversational implicature, politeness theories and approaches to analyse conversation) and will give insights on how these concepts have been applied in research. We will further introduce some research traditions within the field of pragmatics and discover answers to questions like: Are there any differences in the use of requests in American and British English? Do Australian and British students use different requests in e-mails to university faculty? How does pragmatic competence develop in EFL learners? Are there differences in the use of mock impoliteness in Australian and British English? Do learners use the same request strategies in e-mails as native speakers do? Does pragmatic competence increase with a stay-abroad? Does pragmatic instruction in EFL teaching work? This course pursues the aim of involving students in applying the knowledge they gain in empirical research. This means (in practical terms): you choose a topic from a list of possible topics (or come up with one yourself), you give a group presentation on that topic, you work out a small-scale empirical project within this topic (i.e. you collect and analyse data yourself), you present your findings on a poster at the end of the semester (still as group work), you pick one aspect of your study and write a short report on that (individual work).

Hinweise zur Teilnahme für Gasthörende
Sehr gute englische Sprachkenntnisse (mind. C1 des CEFR)