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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2021 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Thomas Messerli (thomas.messerli@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | The internet more generally and social media more specifically have given rise to participatory culture, to novel forms of collaborative undertaking, to joint action between spatially and temporally distant participants. These linguistic actions are not least of all mediated through a range of different comparatively short written texts, such as tweets, posts on Facebook and Instagram, submissions and comments on Reddit, or timed comments on Viki, to name but a few examples. In this seminar, we will approach those texts from a linguistic perspective, theorise the practices that the texts and more broadly the affordances provided by different online platforms give rise to, and apply our insights to short examples. In particular, we will use methods and theories of conversation analysis, discourse analysis and pragmatics to understand the narratives that these texts tell, the way in which their authors construct individual and group identities through them, and the co-construction and negotiation of meaning that the recipients of those texts employ. Apart from their basic knowledge in linguistics, participants in the course are encouraged to bring to the course their own expertise as users of social media as well as their own excerpts of data. This, and the analysis of data more generally, requires an ethically conscious and informed position, and we will therefore start our exploration with a session specifically dedicated to research ethics. |
| Lernziele | By the end of the course, students will have worked with broadly discourse analytic and pragmatic theories on one specific type of data (short online texts). They will have gained a deepened understanding of the text types that are part of the umbrella term in the title of the seminar, of some methodologies that can be applied to them, and of important theorisations and empirical studies on the topic. Students will have applied their knowledge to a range of different data - some of which provided in the course, some of it collected by the participants themselves, and they will have reflected on what constitutes ethically sound research practice in this field. |
| Literatur | All obligatory reading for the course will be made available on ADAM. |
| Weblink | ADAM |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | This seminar is for students of the MA English, MA Sprache und Kommunikation and BA English students who have completed ALL three introductory modules (including the proseminar papers). |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | Please register for this course in MOnA. In order to ensure a good learning environment, we aim at no more than 25 students per linguistics seminar. We ask you to sign up for classes via the following doodle link: https://doodle.com/poll/nieamrybtc4ywsi4?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link **Please only register for a maximum of TWO seminars and only for more than one if you really intend to take the course. ** Should you have not made it into one of the courses and you are only able to register on the list in a position higher than 25, we guarantee that we will take you in the course with the least student numbers. The doodle will open on August 1, 2021, 10am (CEST) and close on September 17, 2021, 2pm (CEST) in order to finalize student distribution in the week before term starts. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | Online-Angebot obligatorisch |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 10.15-12.00 | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 120 |
| Datum | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|
| Mittwoch 22.09.2021 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 120 |
| Mittwoch 29.09.2021 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 120 |
| Mittwoch 06.10.2021 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 120 |
| Mittwoch 13.10.2021 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 120 |
| Mittwoch 20.10.2021 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 120 |
| Mittwoch 27.10.2021 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 120 |
| Mittwoch 03.11.2021 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 120 |
| Mittwoch 10.11.2021 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 120 |
| Mittwoch 17.11.2021 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 120 |
| Mittwoch 24.11.2021 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 120 |
| Mittwoch 01.12.2021 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 120 |
| Mittwoch 08.12.2021 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 120 |
| Mittwoch 15.12.2021 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 120 |
| Mittwoch 22.12.2021 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 120 |
| Module |
Modul: Advanced English Linguistics (Bachelor Studienfach: Englisch) Modul: English Linguistics (Master Studienfach: Englisch) Modul: Forschungspraxis und Vertiefung (Master Studiengang: Sprache und Kommunikation) Modul: Sprache als Prozess (Master Studiengang: Sprache und Kommunikation) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | regular and active participation; preparatory reading; oral presentation plus handout; short written task in connection with the presentation (discussion synthesis of around 1'500 words) |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft |