552.300 (21W) Focus on Linguistics: Ecolinguistics
Überblick
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- Lehrende/r
- LV-Titel englisch Focus on Linguistics: Ecolinguistics
- LV-Art Seminar (prüfungsimmanente LV )
- LV-Modell Blended-Learning-Lehrveranstaltung
- Online-Anteil 50%
- Semesterstunde/n 2.0
- ECTS-Anrechnungspunkte 6.0
- Anmeldungen 7 (25 max.)
- Organisationseinheit
- Unterrichtssprache Englisch
- LV-Beginn 11.10.2021
- eLearning zum Moodle-Kurs
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Anmerkungen
The seminar will last for 2 full hours with a break inbetween.
Zeit und Ort
LV-Beschreibung
Intendierte Lernergebnisse
Upon completion of this seminar, students will be familiar with ecology as an important social and cultural space in which language and discourse play a major role. Students will deepen their knowledge of linguistic and discursive practices and their constitutive functions in the field of ecology and its related discourses. In addition, students will familiarize themselves with adquate linguistic methods to analyze ecological discourses and ideologies behind them.
Lehrmethodik inkl. Einsatz von eLearning-Tools
- theoretical input and discussion of major sociolinguistic and applied linguistic research on the language and discourses of ecology
- critical reading and discussion of relevant literature
- practical work with authentic data from documentaries, social media, broad sheet press etc.
- student presentations
Inhalt/e
The seminar on ecolinguistics will cover the following thematic domains
- the language of nature, environment and ecology
- discourses on climate and climate change
- greenwashing
- discourses on food & health
- discourses of animals
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In addition, methods of (critical) discourse analysis and other linguistics methods to unravel eco-discourses will be covered
Erwartete Vorkenntnisse
Students should be familiar with linguistic concepts such as discourse etc. and should be interested and willing to participate in critical discussions and critical thinking.
Literatur
Stibbe, Arren (2021). Ecolinguistics. Language, ecology and the stories we live by. London/ New York: Routledge.
Prüfungsinformationen
Prüfungsmethode/n
Students are required to hold an oral presentation, to write a seminar paper (details to be explained on the seminar accompanying syllabus) and actively participate (i.e. read all the required literature, participate in discussions) in the seminar.
Prüfungsinhalt/e
Thematic scope of both, oral presentation and seminar paper, are available on the syllabus.
Based on the seminar program, students register for broad topics, whose specification will be discussed with me. Students are invited to make suggestions and come up with relevant literature
Additional literature for both, presentation and seminar paper, are available on moodle
Beurteilungskriterien/-maßstäbe
oral presentation:
- adequate academic presentation and discussion of the topic
written term paper:
- seminar paper meets formal requirement (layout, ToC, language, structure, references & referencing, length) and is submitted on time
- adequate academic presentation (both formally and language-wise) and discussion of the topic
- sufficient use of appropriate and up-to-date literature
active participation in class
- students must read all the required prep.reading
- participate in class
Beurteilungsschema
Note BenotungsschemaPosition im Curriculum
- Bachelorstudium Anglistik und Amerikanistik
(SKZ: 612, Version: 15W.3)
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Fach: Fachliches Vertiefungsstudium
(Pflichtfach)
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7.1 (a) Focus on Linguistics (
0.0h SE / 6.0 ECTS)
- 552.300 Focus on Linguistics: Ecolinguistics (2.0h SE / 6.0 ECTS) Absolvierung im 4., 5. Semester empfohlen
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7.1 (a) Focus on Linguistics (
0.0h SE / 6.0 ECTS)
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Fach: Fachliches Vertiefungsstudium
(Pflichtfach)
- Bachelorstudium Anglistik und Amerikanistik
(SKZ: 612, Version: 15W.3)
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Fach: Freie Kombination
(Wahlfach)
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10.1 Freie Kombination (
0.0h SE / 12.0 ECTS)
- 552.300 Focus on Linguistics: Ecolinguistics (2.0h SE / 6.0 ECTS) Absolvierung im 5., 6. Semester empfohlen
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10.1 Freie Kombination (
0.0h SE / 12.0 ECTS)
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Fach: Freie Kombination
(Wahlfach)
- Bachelorstudium Anglistik und Amerikanistik
(SKZ: 612, Version: 15W.3)
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Fach: Vertiefung
(Wahlfach)
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10.1 Vertiefung (
0.0h XX / 12.0 ECTS)
- 552.300 Focus on Linguistics: Ecolinguistics (2.0h SE / 6.0 ECTS)
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10.1 Vertiefung (
0.0h XX / 12.0 ECTS)
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Fach: Vertiefung
(Wahlfach)
Gleichwertige Lehrveranstaltungen im Sinne der Prüfungsantrittszählung
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Wintersemester 2019/20
- 552.300 SE Focus on Linguistics: Ecolinguistics – Language, Discourse and the Environment (2.0h / 6.0ECTS)