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Ability to understand academic literature about enregisterment and to reflect relevant issues critically; competence to read topic-related scientific texts and analyse texts and utterances according to the methods of different linguistic disciplines; ability to write a term paper that meets academic standards

Enregisterment means “processes through which a linguistic repertoire becomes differentiable within a language as a socially recognised register” (Agha 2003, 231). Speech in that sense does not appear as a structualistic variety but more a specific linguistic register. Speakers may deliberately use such registers depending on situative and communicative contexts. They stylize features of a traditional linguistic repertoire (e.g. a dialect) as part of a new artifical register (Elmentaler / Niebuhr 2017, 112).

Enregisterment is based on language ideologies and social stereotypes (e.g. the 'impolite' Northern German, the 'charming' Austrian). The consequences may be public visualization (Linguistic Landscapes) and commerical use of stylized registers (commodification). Our course will focus on regional enregisterment, e.g. by what means "Tyrolean" and "speakers of Tyrolean" as a social group are constructed.

Literatur:

Agha, Asif (2003): The social life of cultural value. In: Language and Communication 23 (3/4), 231‒273.

Elmentaler, Michael / Oliver Niebuhr (2017): Platt – Missingsch – Petuh: Enregistermentprozesse zwischen Hamburg und Flensburg. In: Anderwald, Lieselotte / Jarich Hoekstra (Hg.): Enregisterment. Zur sozialen Bedeutung sprachlicher Variation. Frankfurt a. Main [u.a.]: Peter Lang, 107–142.

Presentations, reading tasks and discussions, exercises

Presentation, term paper

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