231181 Multilingual Britain (S) (WiSe 2013/2014)

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This seminar is intended to provide you with a well-founded understanding of the linguistic variety of Great Britain and Ireland. In order to do this we will examine a number of groups of “British” languages. In doing this we will look at their history, spread, and current status. This includes the older languages of the British Isles, viz. the Celtic (e.g. Welsh, Gaelic, Manx) and Germanic languages. In the latter case we will focus our attention on English in its diversity, looking at the traditional and regional dialects, urban varieties, and British Standard English. Going beyond these older autochthonous languages (ones long rooted in the British Isles) we will look at the presence of the languages of immigrants and their (grand)children – ones such as Bengali, Greek, Gujarati, Chinese, or Arabic, but also British Black English. In addition, the languages of the Gypsies (or Tinkers or Travelers) will be treated, as will British and Irish Sign Language (BSL, ISL).
We need to look at just how vital all these languages and their speech communities are and what role code-switching plays in the way they are used. How, furthermore, does usage vary not only with regard to gender, ethnicity, and class, but also register (esp. style and medium)?

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Prerequisites: BM 2 (alter BA); BM 3.1 and BM 3.2 (neuer BA)

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23-ANG-AngPM2 Profilmodul 2: British Studies 2.1 Language in Britain Study requirement
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• participation in the final exam
In the old B.A. full points include a written presentation in addition to the class presentation (if the first option is chosen). In the case of the final exam full points are dependent on a pass mark.

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Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies
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