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| Semester | spring semester 2012 |
| Course frequency | Irregular |
| Lecturers | Miriam Locher (miriam.locher@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | Have you got a favorite story that you like to retell? Is it at all possible to tell the same story twice? What is the core of a narrative and what changes when you retell your story? What makes some people better story tellers than others? What are the 'interactional rules' when someone tells a story? This seminar will deal with the study of spontaneous and elicited oral narratives told during conversations or similar interactions. We will study how language is used to create a storyworld and how that storyworld is sensitive to different contexts. This will include topics such as narrative structure, the relationship of the narrative to the conversation in which it occurs, deixis, point of view, tense variation, constructed dialogue, multivoicedness, the relationship of narrative to the construction of identity, retelling of narratives, 'second' stories and more. Each student is expected to tape and transcribe one elicited and/or one spontaneous narrative in advance and bring them to the first seminar session. This will result in our own corpus of narratives, which will be shared by all the seminar participants. |
| Learning objectives | Theories and methods of discourse analysis will be introduced through assigned readings and will be applied to a selection of the collected narratives every week. Students should thus arrive at a deeper understanding of both narratives and linguistic research methods in discourse analysis. |
| Bibliography | A selection of texts and handouts will be made available online in OLAT. |
| Comments | In this seminar we will work with data that you have collected yourself. This means that you will need to prepare the course in advance. Preparatory meeting: 19 December 2011, 18:15, room 11. It is important to attend this meeting as guidelines for data collection and transcription will be issued. |
| Weblink | OLAT |
| Admission requirements | MA level |
| Course application | Please register for this course online in MONA as well as in OLAT. The seminar is restricted to 35 students. The OLAT registration counts. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Modul English Sociolinguistics & Cognitive Linguistics (Master's degree subject: English) Modul Soziolinguistik (Master's degree program: Language and Communication) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Written and oral assignments |
| 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 |