Objectives and Contents
The aim of the course is to deepen knowledge and skills in an area of spoken language which is often neglected, involving properties of language such as intonation and accentuation, in other words: "tone of voice", melody, tempo, rhythm, intensity...
In literature, "prosody" refers to highly stylised features of verse such as metre and rhyme: terms such as iambic, trochaic, dactylic and anapaestic feet, iambic pentameter, are characteristic of this domain. Contemporary literary studies tend to concentrate more on the pragmatics and, as it were, the "sociolinguistics" of literature in its cultural and social context rather than on its form, and in this way is nicely complementary to the topics which are dealt with in linguistics.
The course will concentrate mainly on two areas, from both theoretical and practical points of view:
1. intonation: the organisation of the melody of speech in relation to words, sentences, texts and dialogues;
2. rhythm: the temporal organisation of speech.
In each of these two areas, practical description of speech recordings will be made, and differences in form and functionality of these systems of speech in different languages (and dialects) will be investigated.
Organisation and Qualifications
On the one hand, for more theoretical issues the course will be partly lecture-based and partly group work based. On the other hand, there will be a strong focus on practical descriptive work, involving the analysis of speech recordings using modern phonetic methods of speech annotation and "annotation mining".
In order to get the full qualification of 3 credit points, the following is expected of all participants:
1. Regular attendance.
2. Production of a "Learner Diary" or "Portfolio" as follows:
See also
Rhythmus | Tag | Uhrzeit | Format / Ort | Zeitraum |
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Studiengang/-angebot | Gültigkeit | Variante | Untergliederung | Status | Sem. | LP | |
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Anglistik: British and American Studies / Bachelor | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2011) | Kern- und Nebenfach | BaAngPM1 | 3 | |||
Anglistik: British and American Studies / Bachelor | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2011) | Kern- und Nebenfach | BaAngPM2 | 3 | |||
Anglistik: British and American Studies / Master of Education | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2014) | BaAngPM1 | 3 | ||||
Anglistik: British and American Studies / Master of Education | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2014) | BaAngPM2 | 3 | ||||
Anglistik: British and American Studies (GHR) / Bachelor | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2011) | Kern- und Nebenfach | BaAngPM1 | 3 | |||
Anglistik: British and American Studies (GHR) / Bachelor | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2011) | Kern- und Nebenfach | BaAngPM2 | 3 | |||
Anglistik: British and American Studies (GHR) / Master of Education | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2014) | BaAngPM1 | 3 | ||||
Anglistik: British and American Studies (GHR) / Master of Education | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2014) | BaAngPM2 | 3 |