- Credits: 6
- Ending: Examination
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
Knowledge:
- Acquiring of knowledge of trends in modern linguistics with overlap into other disciplines (e.g., semantics, textual linguistics, cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmalinguistics, neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics, politolinguistics, corpus linguistics).
- Acquiring knowledge of the concepts and selected theoretical foundations of the linguistic disciplines of applied linguistics (e.g. prototype theory, speech act theory).
Competencies:
- Acquisition of the competence to characterize applied linguistics and its place in modern linguistics, with emphasis on its relationship to traditional linguistic disciplines in the context of the development of linguistics.
- Acquisition of competence to identify and assess the current contribution and further potential of the knowledge of applied linguistics to the investigation of the principles of human language functioning (e.g. processes of speech production and comprehension, processes of acquisition of mother tongue or foreign language).
- Acquisition of the competence to explain the possibilities of applying the knowledge of applied branches of linguistics in linguistic communication and in the process of its improvement.
Skills:
Acquisition of the ability to comprehensively apply the acquired knowledge and competences in the production of one's own linguistic expression in the target language.
Indicative content
- The position and importance of the branches of applied linguistics in language research
- Basics of semantics and its reflection in language practice
- Basics of textual linguistics and corpus linguistics and their reflection in language practice
- Basics of cognitive linguistics and its reflection in language practice
- Basics of sociolinguistics, pragmalinguistics and politolinguistics and their reflection in language practice
- Basics of neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics and its reflection in language practice
Support literature
Required:
1. SPEYER, A. – REICH, I. (2020): Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft. Ditzingen: Reclam. ISBN-13:
9783150112762, ISBN-10: 3150112761.
2. ADAMCOVÁ, L. – ADAMCOVÁ, S. (2019): Linguistische Charakteristik der deutschen Sprache. München: LINCOM Europa. ISBN 9783862889686.
3. LÖFFLER, H. (2016): Germanistische Soziolinguistik. Berlin: Erich Schmidt. ISBN: 978-3-503-12222-6.
4. STEDE, M. (2018): Korpusgestützte Textanalyse: Grundzüge der ebenen-orientierten Textlinguistik. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto. ISBN: 9783823382041.
Optional:
1. GUTZMANN, D. (2019): Semantik: Eine Einführung. Stuttgart: Metzler. ISBN: 9783476048707
2. LÖBNER, S. (2015): Semantik: Eine Einfühgrung. Berlin: De Gruyter. ISBN: 9783110348156
3. SCHWARZ-FRIESEL, M. – CHUR, J. (2014): Semantik: Ein Arbeitsbuch. Tübingen: Narr. ISBN: 9783823368854
4. GODDARD, C. (2011): Semantic analysis: a practical introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199560288.
5. JANICH, N. (2019): Textlinguistik: 15 Einführungen und eine Diskussion. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto. ISBN: 9783823382201.
6. ADAMZIK, K. (2016): Textlinguistik: Grundlagen, Kontroversen, Perspektiven. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. ISBN 9783110339352.
7. ROTHMAYR, A. (2016): Linguistik für die Kognitionswissenschaft. Eine interdisziplinäre Ergänzung zur Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto. ISBN 978-3-8233-8000-9.
8. EHRHARDT, C. – HERINGER, H. J. (2011): Pragmatik. Padeborn: Fink. ISBN: 978-3-8252-3480-5
9. MÜLLER, H. M. (2013): Psycholinguistik – Neurolinguistik. Padeborn: Fink. ISBN 9783825236472.
10. DIETRICH, R. – GERWIEN, J. (2017): Psycholinguistik: Eine Einführung. Stuttgart: Metzler ISBN 9783476054944.
11. GLÜCK, H. (2016): Metzler Lexikon Sprache. Stuttgart: Metzler. ISBN 9783476026415
Requirements to complete the course
Interim evaluation: 30%
Final evaluation: 70%
Student workload
Total study load (in hours):
Full-time study: 156 hours. Of which:
52 hours – attendance at seminars
32 hours – preparation for seminars and for the interim evaluation
72 hours – preparation for the final exam
Language whose command is required to complete the course
German
Date of approval: 18.01.2022
Date of the latest change: 06.05.2022