Classes in Summer Term 2001

English Linguistics

18 October 2000 (Version: July 19, 2001 )

SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE
"Selling names: The Language of Advertising"
Will Leben, Stanford University
Wednesday, 16 May 2001, 1600h, Hs 11

SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE
"Language awareness"
Jolanta Palowska
Pedagogical Academy Krakow, Poland
Thursday , 21 June 2001, 1215h, C01-246 (CHANGED!)

Bielefeld English Studies Forum:
http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/anglistik/

 
• Contents
• Planning
  • Semester dates
  • Calendar Summer 2001
• 23 00 09 All about Language: An Introduction to English Linguistics (shared lecture, Thursday 12-13, C01-246)
• 23 00 11 Computers and the English Language A.3, A.5 (zwischenprüfungsrelevant) ENGLISCH SI/II, ANGLISTIK MA, LINGUISTIK MA GS 2 SWS, Do 8-10, C01-273
  • Course description
  • First miniproject: "MS-Word as applied text linguistics?"
    • Project background
    • Project tasks
    • Overview of document structure
  • Second miniproject: "Text objects and their styles"
  • Third miniproject: "Miniproject evaluation"
  • Fourth miniproject: "Hypertext - documents on the web"
    • Layout conversion
    • Specification of the document
    • Stylesheets
    • Pages versus Documents
    • Frames
  • Fifth miniproject: "Corpus analysis: the web as a concordance"
  • Sixth miniproject: "Spoken English: speech editing"
  • Term papers, Zwischenprüfung
    • Term papers
    • Zwischenprüfung
• 23 00 12 Language Documentation in West Africa ENGLISCH SI/II, ANGLISTIK MA, LINGUISTIK MA HS A.3/A.5 2 SWS, Mi 16-18, C01-273
  • Introduction
  • General Orientation
  • The first mini-project: sources of information
  • Report design
    • Design tools and formats
    • Overview of document content
    • Overview of document structure
  • Sample plan for documentation content
    • Information sources (all media)
    • Maps
    • Language courses: e.g. Hausa
    • Pidgins and Creoles: Portuguese, English, French
    • Local languages: Ega, Hausa, Ibibio
    • Sound (speech, music, ...)
    • Linguistic information
    • Cultural, social, political information
  • Specialised documentation: phonetics, phonology, prosody
  • Specialised documentation: lexicon
    • Preparatory tasks
    • Content of a lexicon
    • Organisation (abstract architecture) of a lexicon
    • Layout of a lexicon
  • Specialised documentation: grammar
    • Basic grammatical distinctions
  • Integrating the document
    • Source documents
    • Target documents
    • Translation from source to target
• 23 00 13 Language Models: Feature grammars ENGLISCH SI/II, ANGLISTIK MA, LINGUISTIK MA A.1, A.2 2 SWS, Do 10-12, C01-235
• 23 00 10 Graduierte & fortgeschrittene Studierende. Colloquium: Documentation of Spoken Language 2 SWS, Di 18-20, C6-200 (or Phonetics Lab, C6)
  • Background information
  • Colloquium programme Summer 2001
• Socrates Tutorial 23 00 14 2 SWS, Di 10-12 (C6-200 or Phonetics Lab, C6)