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| Semester | spring semester 2009 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Danièle Klapproth Muazzin (daniele.klapproth@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | If the current trend continues, more than 50% of the world's (6000 or so) languages will cease to be spoken within the next two generations. This rapid loss of linguistic diversity constitutes a situation unprecedented in human history. In this seminar we will familiarise ourselves with key issues in the fast growing field of language endangerment research, addressing a range of highly pertinent questions. What happens, linguistically and culturally, in the process of language decline/language shift? What are the social, economic, and political factors that lead to language endangerment, shift and/or death? In particular, what are the impacts that language education policies have had in these matters in colonial and in post-colonial times? What language maintenance and revitalisation programmes are being developed within communities and institutional/educational frameworks, and to what extent are they successful? The seminar will deal both with theoretical perspectives on the issues under discussion and engage with case studies from a range of geographical regions and cultural contexts. |
| Learning objectives | To familiarise students with the issues of language endangerment, maintenance and revitalisation, and to work towards an understanding of these processes in their sociolinguistic, cultural, historical and political contexts. |
| Bibliography | A reader will be made available. |
| Weblink | n/a |
| Admission requirements | BA seminar; open to post-introductory students (3rd year onwards) who have completed all the necessary requirements of the first two years of their studies in English linguistics. |
| Course application | Please register by sending an email to Daniele.Klapproth(at)unibas.ch. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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| Modules |
Interphilologisches Modul (Bachelor's degree subject: Italianistik) Modul angewandte französische Sprachwissenschaft (Bachelor's degree subject: Französische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft) Modul Communication dans l'espace européen (Master's degree program: Etudes françaises et francophones) Modul Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft I (Master's degree subject: German Language and Literature) Modul Focusing on the Discipline (Linguistics) (Bachelor's degree subject: Englisch) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Regular and active participation, oral presentation, optional seminar paper |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Englisches Seminar |