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Grammar writing and usage past and present: Improper, corrupt and barbarous- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Julia Schlüter
- Angaben
- Seminar/Hauptseminar
2 SWS
Zeit und Ort: Do 10:15 - 11:45, M3/02.10; Bemerkung zu Zeit und Ort: In the second week of term, MA students as well as BA/Lehramt students in their Vertiefungsmodul are expected to take part in an introduction to research methods (unless they have already participated in the Übung Methods and Theories in Linguistics ). Thus, these participants are required to reserve the following times and dates: Mon, 22 October 2018, 8 10 h OR 14 18 h AND Thu, 25 October 2018, OR Fri, 26 October 2018, 10 14 h. To coordinate course dates and times, please register for the following Virtual Campus course by 18 October at the latest and take part in the survey you will find there: https://vc.uni-bamberg.de/moodle/course/view.php?id=29894. You will receive notice of the time slots you have been allotted on 19 October.
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- General organization
1. Modules:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
LA GY: Wahlpflichtmodul Englische Sprachwissenschaft bei Kombination mit dem Fach Russisch Seminar (6 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies: Master Module English Linguistics: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies: Profile Module English Linguistics I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies: Consolidation Module English Linguistics I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA: Master Module or Profile Module I or III English Linguistics: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (max. 8 ECTS)
2. Registration and Deregistration:
Registration via FlexNow from 24 September 2018, 10:00h, to 18 October 2018, 23:59h.
Deregistration via FlexNow from 24 September 2018, 10:00h, to 30 October 2018, 23:59h.
For students transferring to the University of Bamberg, for Erasmus students and for those who need the credit to register for their upcoming final exams a few places will be reserved. If the course is fully booked please contact the lecturer personally.
3. Requirements for successful completion of the course:
4 ECTS: regular active participation in class + oral presentation with handout
5/6/8 ECTS in MA English and American Studies Consolidation Module English Linguistics I/II/III: regular active participation in class + oral presentation + oral exam
5 ECTS in other programmes or modules: regular active participation in class + oral presentation + assignment of 2500-3500 words
6 ECTS: regular active participation in class + oral presentation + seminar paper of 3000-4000 words
8 ECTS BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik Vertiefungsmodul: regular active participation in class + oral presentation + seminar paper of 3500-4500 words
8 ECTS in other programmes or modules, and visiting students: regular active participation in class + oral presentation + seminar paper of 4500-6000 words
4. Language of instruction:
English
- Inhalt
- Description:
In this seminar we will look at English grammar and grammars of English from a variety of perspectives. From the 18th to the 20th centuries, much of English grammar writing has been prescriptive, instructing readers which grammatical structures should be used and which should be avoided because they were considered improper, corrupt, barbarous or otherwise inadvisable. We will read about how the grammar of English underwent standardization and which idealizations were adopted. Using published research and carrying out studies of our own, we will investigate the hotly debated question of which role prescriptive grammars played in the process.
This tradition was continued in the 20th century by styleguides such as Strunk's Elements of Style (1918) and Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), which had considerable influence on the writing of generations of students in the US and Great Britain, respectively. More recently, the ubiquitous Microsoft grammar checker has been argued to have developed into the most powerful prescriptive language force in the world.
Modern descriptive grammars (e.g. Quirk et al. 1985 and Biber et al. 1999) have shifted the focus from prescription to description based on actual (rather than idealized) usage.
Learners' grammars, making deliberate use of simplification for didactic purposes, represent yet another type of grammar that is particularly relevant for future teachers of English.
We will contrast the accounts of syntactic phenomena given in different grammars of English with real usage as documented in large collections of texts (corpora), both historical and contemporary. Phenomena will include the following:
- sentence-initial and and but
- preposition stranding, e.g. the picture she was looking at
- double negation, e.g. he won t do no harm
- double comparison, e.g. the most happiest person
- irregular past tense forms, e.g. sung, drunk, dove, snuck
- split infinitives, e.g. to fully understand
- which and that as relativizers
- shall and will with 1st person subjects
- active and passive constructions
The Übung that accompanies the seminar (Thursdays, 16:00 - 16:45; beginning in the second week of term) is designed for discussions of linguistic project work and other assignments with the teacher individually and/or in small groups. Individual arrangements will be made also, if necessary, concerning the time of the Übung. Therefore clashes with other courses scheduled for the same time slot as the Übung can be avoided.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 8
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
- Zugeordnete Lehrveranstaltungen
- Ü: Übung zum Hauptseminar "Grammar writing and usage past and present: Improper, corrupt and barbarous"
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Dozent/in: Prof. Dr. Julia Schlüter
Zeit und Ort: Mi 14:00 - 14:45, U9/01.03; Bemerkung zu Zeit und Ort: This course begins only in the second week of term.
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft einschließlich Sprachgeschichte
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