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69408-01 - Seminar: Narratives (3 CP)

Semester fall semester 2023
Course frequency Irregular
Lecturers Miriam Locher (miriam.locher@unibas.ch, Assessor)
Content Narratives are all pervasive in human interaction and fulfil both a cognitive and a social need in communication. Telling a story can have many different functions and be realized in many different ways and with different levels of skill. After having established the classic terminology in describing narratives in face-to-face interaction (as developed by Labov for English data), we will also explore small stories and tiny stories and compare this to more elaborated acts of narrating in different contexts. Students will all contribute a recorded and transcribed narrative of their own and will share this data for analysis with others.
Learning objectives At the end of this course students
- can explain the interactional co-constructed achievement of a story-telling event
- have gained experience in applying theoretical concepts to their own data
- can develop new research questions of their own
Bibliography Please purchase or download the following coursebook:
Locher, Miriam A., & Jucker, Andreas H. (2021). "The Pragmatics of Fiction. Literature, Stage and Screen Discourse". Edinburgh: Edinburgh. University Press.
Additional texts will be made available in the ADAM workspace.
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Admission requirements This course is open to BA students on the advanced level who have completed ALL three introductory modules (including the proseminar papers) and to MA students of English and MSG Sprache und Kommunikation.
Course application Please register for this course on services unibas.

In order to ensure a good learning environment, we aim at no more than 20 students per linguistics seminar. We ask you to sign up for classes via the ADAM registration surveys, which will open on August 2, 2023, 10am (CEST) and close on September 19, 2023, 2pm (CEST): https://adam.unibas.ch/goto_adam_crs_1623802.html

**Please only register for a maximum of TWO seminars and only for more than one if you really intend to take both courses.**

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 20, we guarantee that we will take you in the course with the least student numbers.
Language of instruction English
Use of digital media Online, mandatory

 

Interval Weekday Time Room
wöchentlich Monday 12.15-14.00 Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal

Dates

Date Time Room
Monday 18.09.2023 12.15-14.00 Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal
Monday 25.09.2023 12.15-14.00 Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal
Monday 02.10.2023 12.15-14.00 Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal
Monday 09.10.2023 12.15-14.00 Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal
Monday 16.10.2023 12.15-14.00 Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal
Monday 23.10.2023 12.15-14.00 Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal
Monday 30.10.2023 12.15-14.00 Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal
Monday 06.11.2023 12.15-14.00 Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal
Monday 13.11.2023 12.15-14.00 Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal
Monday 20.11.2023 12.15-14.00 Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal
Monday 27.11.2023 12.15-14.00 Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal
Monday 04.12.2023 12.15-14.00 Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal
Monday 11.12.2023 12.15-14.00 Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal
Modules Modul: Advanced English Linguistics (Bachelor's degree subject: English)
Modul: English Linguistics (Master's degree subject: English)
Modul: Forschungspraxis und Vertiefung (Master's degree program: Language and Communication)
Modul: Sprache als Prozess (Master's degree program: Language and Communication)
Assessment format continuous assessment
Assessment registration/deregistration Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required
Repeat examination no repeat examination
Scale Pass / Fail
Repeated registration as often as necessary
Responsible faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch
Offered by Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft

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