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| Semester | fall semester 2021 |
| 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), this course also works with recent theoretical insights as reported in literature on narratives in computer-mediated contexts (vlogs, twitter, status updates, online diaries, advice forums, etc). We will explore small stories and tiny stories and compare this to more elaborated acts of narrating in computer-mediated contexts and oral face-to-face narratives. |
| 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 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. |
| Weblink | ADAM |
| Admission requirements | Requirements: This course if open to students of English who have passed all three BA introductory modules. Max. 25 students. Please register for this course in MOnA and in the following doodle: https://doodle.com/poll/nieamrybtc4ywsi4?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link |
| Course application | 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. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | Online, mandatory |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Monday | 12.15-14.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Monday 20.09.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Monday 27.09.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Monday 04.10.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Monday 11.10.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Monday 18.10.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Monday 25.10.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Monday 01.11.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Monday 08.11.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Monday 15.11.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Monday 22.11.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Monday 29.11.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Monday 06.12.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Monday 13.12.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Monday 20.12.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Modules |
Modul: Advanced English Linguistics (Bachelor's degree subject: English) |
| 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 |