10-76-4-WD-2a/2c-3 | "About as exciting as watching paint dry?" Construction Grammar as a new method of describing Grammar (in englischer Sprache)
Seminar
Termine: wöchentlich Di 10:15 - 11:45 (2 SWS)
What do you have to know if you want to master a language? Your gut feeling might tell you that, at least, you need to know the words and the rules about how to combine these words in a grammatical and meaningful way. Traditional grammarians may say the same, but Construction Grammar (or CxG, for short) is a rebel! It rejects the traditional “dictionary-and-grammar model” and claims that the only thing you need to know is constructions. Essentially, a construction is an extension of the Saussurean sign (i.e. a conventionalized pairing of form and meaning), including morphemes, words, phrases and clausal patterns. CxG thus provides a holistic picture of grammar. In this class, we will deepen your understanding of English constructions. We will define key concepts in CxG (session 2) and revise empirical evidence for CxG (session 3). We will then take a look at particular English constructions and their relations, running the gamut from clausal (session 4 and 5), to morphemic (session 7) and pragmatic (session 8), to discourse-level constructions (session 9). During the last couple of sessions, you will be given the opportunity to do small-scale research on a construction of your choice.
Course requirements Module WD2 – 3CP (SL): Poster Module WD2 – 3CP (PL): Poster + written assignment (~5 pages) Module MMII – 6CP (PL): Poster + written assignment (~10 pages)
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10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-14 | Multimodal Narratives, Genre and Ideology (in englischer Sprache)
Blockveranstaltung
Einzeltermine: Fr 17.04.20 12:00 - 14:00 Sa 06.06.20 09:00 - 18:00 Sa 20.06.20 09:00 - 18:00 Sa 04.07.20 09:00 - 18:00
In the last decades, critical discourse analysis has moved from the verbal mode toward multimedia and multimodal artefacts. In this seminar we will cover the principal critical discourse approaches to textuality, addressing how these approaches can be extended to analyse narrative presented in visual and audiovisual text such as films, comics, graphic novels and interactive storytelling. After introducing the critical discourse methods, we will address how these methods can be used to construct systematic structures for reflecting media users’ prediction of narrative and genre. Moreover, we will employ the discourse approach to systematically unpack socio-political ideologies embedded in the multimodal texts. We will then explore how different media and genres achieve emotional, immersive and persuasive purposes of these ideologies in different ways drawing on the different media affordances and constraints.
| Prof. John Bateman, Ph.D. Dr. Chiao-I Tseng
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