• Spoken English
  
  This lecture offers a general overview of research on conversation and spoken language generally, from early writings up to current trends and schools.
  
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• Morphology
  
  This lecture offers a general overview of English Morphology with copious detailed analyses of concrete examples. Ideal as an introduction to the structure of English.
  
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• Semantics
  
  This lecture introduces the history of linguistic semantics and investigates such traditional semantic topics as the meanings of "meaning," reference, deixis, sense relations such as synonymy, antonymy and polysemy, semantic fields, componential analysis, idiomaticity, modality, metaphor, utterance meaning, presupposition and inference. Exemplary analyses of diverse textual passages will serve to illustrate semantic methods and principles.
  
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• Psycholinguistics
  
  This lecture will present the history, principles and methods of psycholinguistics in the second half of the 20th century, and will explore such current topics as language acquisition, bilingualism, discourse production and comprehension, speech disorders and language loss. Exemplary analyses of diverse textual passages will serve to illustrate psycholinguistic methods and principles.
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• History of Linguistics
  
  This lecture will present the history of linguistics in the 20th century, from de Saussure onwards, tracing developments in the theories, principles and methods of major figures and prominent schools as they relate to primary areas of investigation from semantics, syntax and phonology to pragmatics and discourse analysis. Exemplary analyses will serve to illustrate the various approaches.
  
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• Discourse Analysis
  
  This lecture offers a general overview of research in DA from its origins up to current trends and schools.
  
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• The History of English
  
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• Sociolinguistics
  
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• Discourse Analysis
  
  In this seminar we investigate various perspectives on the analysis of discourse. Topics include coherence, presupposition, inference, spoken versus written discourse, narrative, frame theory, Conversation Analysis, Interactional Sociolinguistics, and Critical Discourse Analysis.
  
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• Chaucer's Language: Middle English
  
  This seminar focuses on linguistic aspects of Middle English, especially the language of Chaucer. Topics will include the sound system, morphology, grammar, vocabulary, phraseology, and pragmatics of Middle English, as illustrated by the works of Chaucer, along with Chaucer’s individual style, prose and verse, imagery, characterization, bawdy language, and narrative techniques.
  
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• Language and Power
  
  In this seminar we will investigate the interrelationship of language and power from various linguistic perspectives, including Feminist Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, and Interactional Sociolinguistics. We will focus on such topics as language and gender; discourse and ideology; politeness and solidarity; forms of address; group languages; language attitudes; language and aging; and conversational interaction.
  
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• Narrative
  
  "Remember the story about ... ?" This seminar deals with linguistic approaches to narrative. We will focus on conversational analytic approaches, as well as story grammar and frame theory. In addition, students will report on co-narration and the retelling of stories. We will also work on narrative in drama and narrative jokes.
  
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• Shakespeare's Language
  
  In this seminar, students will learn to read Early Modern English and recognize its variants as well as to describe different functions of language in Shakespeare’s works, e.g. metrics, terms of address, metaphor, punning.
  
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• First Language Acquisition
  
  In this seminar we will concentrate on first language acquisition. We will investigate recent research into child language, infant bilingualism, caretaker speech and the influence of input versus the innateness hypothesis.
  
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• Variation in English
  
  This seminar will investigate variation in English over time, by area and social group, by discourse type, context and medium. We will explore issues in diachronic and areal ling (dialectology) along with questions of register, sociolect and style.
  
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• Linguistic Approaches to Humor
  
  Much of our everyday talk and many of our most revered literary texts thrive on humor: Joking, jokes and anecdote telling play a prominent role in our conversations and entertainments; and much literary production consists of witty sayings, dramatic comedy, and funny narratives. It is the aim of this seminar to review the linguistic literature on humor and to test its methods and conclusions on examples of our own. We will begin with conversational joking and work our way up to literary texts. This seminar should allow literarily minded students to refine their discourse analytic skills, and linguistically minded students to try their hands at literary texts.
  
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• Language Play
  
  This course provides students with a general overview of how people play with language. Everyone engages in one kind of language game or another: punning, parody, crossword puzzles, anagrams and the like. We will investigate such games to see what they tell us about the structures and functions of language, from tongue twisters, which reflect principles of phonology, to jokes, which take us into the field of discourse analysis.
  
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• Phraseology
  
  In this seminar we will investigate all the recurrent, formulaic units in language: collocations, clichés, idioms, metaphors, binomials, phrasal verbs, routine formulas, proverbs and proverbial phrases. We will consider the structures and meanings of these formulaic units and their role in language processing and language acquisition. We will explore the variability of “phrasemes” and their significance for discourse types and styles, as well as their treatment in lexica of various kinds.
  
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• Spoken Language
  
  In this seminar, we will review current research on speaking and listening versus writing and reading, on orality and methods of representing speech.
  
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• Second Language Acquisition
  
  In this seminar we will explore research on second language acquisition, including the role of input, the order of acquisition, error analysis, interlanguage, and bilingualism as well as methods of teaching and testing second language acquisition and the second language classroom.
  
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