230197 Variational Pragmatics (S) (WiSe 2022/2023)
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Variational pragmatics is a linguistic discipline that investigates pragmatic variation in geographical and social space. It has been described as the intersection of pragmatics with [modern] dialectology (Schneider 2014: 361), and thus adds a pragmatic dimension to the study of pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar in dialectology. It could be seen as a branch of contrastive linguistics, although it does not deal with contrasts between different languages (e.g. English vs. German) but with variation within one language, e.g. English as it is spoken in different localities. In this, it is primarily concerned with language variation in pluricentric languages. In this class, you will first be introduced to the field of variational pragmatics. We will look at pragmatic differences between different national varieties of English, such as Irish English, English English, and American English, but we will also include the World Englishes paradigm. We will be looking at selected studies using a variational pragmatic approach, and will be working with empirical data from an ongoing research project at Bielefeld University on the pragmatics of Namibian English.
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