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Proseminar II: Language Contact- Dozent/in
- Michaela Hilbert, M.A.
- Angaben
- Proseminar
2 SWS
Zeit und Ort: Do 10:00 - 12:00, U2/130
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Participants should register by email (michaela.hilbert(at)uni-bamberg.de) until the 8th of October, including name, course of studies, semester and contact email address.
The number of participants is limited to 24.
Requirements: weekly reading assignments, active participation in class, short oral presentation, final term paper.
- Inhalt
- Whenever and wherever people meet, their respective languages meet as well. And just as the outcome of encounters between people are – to say the least – diverse, the effects of language contact can equally cover a broad range, from the borrowing of individual words to heavy influence on one or both languages; from hardly any result at all to the “death” of one language or the creation of an entirely new, sometimes seemingly “mixed”, language.
This seminar will investigate causes, types and effects of language contact and will of course use English as the prime example. We will take a look at the different ways in which English developed on the British Isles in contact with Celtic, Latin, Scandinavian and French. We will turn to what happened when the English language was exported to the rest of the world, giving rise to various varieties, such as Indian English or Nigerian English, and to pidgins and creoles, such as Tok Pisin or Jamaican Creole. We will expand our view to include topics like the influence of English on Modern German, and language contact in multilingual urban settings like London or New York.
All this will of course be based on, accompanied by, and serving as a testing ground for existing theoretical notions relevant to the topic, involving theories of language contact and language change, code-switching, diglossia, bi- and multilingualism, as well as social and political aspects.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- The course will mainly be based on
Donald Winford (2006) An introduction to contact linguistics. Malden, Mass. et al.: Blackwell.
A good introductory book is
Sarah G. Thomason (2001) Language contact. An introduction. Edinburgh: EUP.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 6
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft einschließlich Sprachgeschichte
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