551.312 (20W) Advanced Topics in Linguistics: Ecolinguistics - Language, Discourse and the Environment
Überblick
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- Lehrende/r
- LV-Titel englisch Advanced Topics in Linguistics: Ecolinguistics - Language, Discourse and the Environment
- LV-Art Seminar (prüfungsimmanente LV )
- LV-Modell Blended-Learning-Lehrveranstaltung
- Semesterstunde/n 2.0
- ECTS-Anrechnungspunkte 8.0
- Anmeldungen 8 (25 max.)
- Organisationseinheit
- Unterrichtssprache Englisch
- LV-Beginn 13.10.2020
- eLearning zum Moodle-Kurs
Zeit und Ort
LV-Beschreibung
Intendierte Lernergebnisse
In this seminar, students will learn and discuss issues of ecology (as important social and cultural space) from the perspective of language and discourse: consumerism, fast fashion, veganism, nutrion, climate change, weather forcasts, Covid-19 etc. - all of these ecological topics are framed in and through language. What ideologies are behind them? What are the stories-we-live by when it comes to dicussing climate change and other ecological issues? Students will get to know adquate linguistic methods to analyze ecological discourses and to understand the 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 e.g. newspapers, online-blogs, political discussions etc.
- short 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
- Covid-19
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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 are required to be familiar with linguistic thought and methology.
Literatur
Stibbe, Arren (2015). Ecolinguistics. Language, ecology and the stories we live by. London/ New York: Routledge.
+ additional texts will be provided on moodle
Prüfungsinformationen
Prüfungsmethode/n
- student presentation
- seminar paper
Prüfungsinhalt/e
Presentation and term paper should cover a topic from the ecolinguistic syllabus.
Beurteilungsschema
Note BenotungsschemaPosition im Curriculum
- Masterstudium Anglistik und Amerikanistik
(SKZ: 812, Version: 18W.1)
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Fach: Linguistics
(Wahlfach)
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2.4 Advanced Topics in Linguistics I (
0.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
- 551.312 Advanced Topics in Linguistics: Ecolinguistics - Language, Discourse and the Environment (2.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS) Absolvierung im 2. Semester empfohlen
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2.4 Advanced Topics in Linguistics I (
0.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
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Fach: Linguistics
(Wahlfach)
- Masterstudium Anglistik und Amerikanistik
(SKZ: 812, Version: 11W.1)
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Fach: Applied Linguistics
(Wahlfach)
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Advanced Topics in „Applied Linguistics” (
0.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
- 551.312 Advanced Topics in Linguistics: Ecolinguistics - Language, Discourse and the Environment (2.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
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Advanced Topics in „Applied Linguistics” (
0.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
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Fach: Applied Linguistics
(Wahlfach)