Moodle UDE

This course focuses English-based pidgin and creole systems, with a special emphasis on how variation is quantified in these contact varieties. Sociolinguistic inquiry has traditionally focused on English dialects, a fact that has major implications for the theories that form the basis of the variationist paradigm. How do social factors impact speech patterns in post-colonial communities typified by language contact? Are social factors constructed in the same fashion, and how does language change proceed in these communities? Our consideration of these questions will rely on work that investigates variation and change in pidgins and creoles—languages that are born from social and economic disparity—and what impact these findings have on broader sociolinguistic theory. The study of creoles is centred in the broader sociolinguistic enterprise by assessing theories surrounding the social embeddedness (e.g., the post-creole continuum, social variation) and genesis of creoles (e.g., bioprogram hypothesis, gradualist theories). In pursuit of these goals, thorough discussion will be made of and data will be analysed from a number of creole varieties, including (but not limited to) Hawaiʻi Creole, Bislama, Jamaican Creole, and Tok Pisin.

Dass Deutsch nicht gleich Deutsch ist, wird jedem klar, der aus Norddeutschland kommt und Urlaub in Bayern macht. Unterschiede unseres Sprechens und Schreibens zeigen sich jedoch auch in Abhängigkeit davon, in welcher Situation wir uns befinden, welchen gesellschaftlichen Gruppen wir angehören und ob wir uns face-to-face oder per WhatsApp mit jemandem unterhalten. Diese Unterschiede der deutschen Sprache sind Gegenstand der Varietätenlinguistik.

Das Seminar gibt einen Überblick über die zentralen Begriffe und Konzepte der Varietätenlinguistik. Zudem soll die sprachwissenschaftliche Forschung zu ausgewählten Varietäten der deutschen Sprache vermittelt und mithilfe der Analyse authentischer Daten vertieft werden.

This course will focus on the role of social and linguistic factors in the transmission and diffusion of featural change in a specific constellation of varieties that fall under the category of Australian English(es), an umbrella term to refer to the variety spoken by between 20-25 million people (largely in Australia). Students will be exposed to a wide range of research concerning principles of language change, class and ethnolectal variation, and the linguistic ecology of Australia. The course will be hands-on, and students will work closely with the instructor to investigate changes in Australian English using data from the Sydney Speaks project (Travis et al. In Progress; https://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/sydney-speaks/). Methods introduced in this class are widely applicable to linguistic analysis, particularly for students interested in using real data to address questions concerning variation, English in the Pacific, language change, and ethnolects.

Dieser Kursraum ist für Mitwirkende der Arbeitsstelle interreligiöses Lernen (AiL). Er dient zur Unterstützung und Dokumentation der AiL-Veranstaltungen.