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Students are able to reproduce the deepened knowledge of a special area of German linguistics and can work scientifically and independently on a certain topic. Insights into research on the topic of metaphors. Capacity to independently analyse language data.

Metaphors occur quite frequently in many different text types and communicative genres. There, they fulfill various functions: they help us to say things that we could not express otherwise; they can make utterances vivid and illustrative; they can also serve as a rhetoric device. In the course, we will take a look at current theories of metaphors and discuss methods to analyze metaphors. With these tools, a corpus compiled by the participants themselves will be analysed.

Lecture mixed with discussions, group/partner work and empirical analyses, preparatory reading of scientific texts, oral presentations by students, feedback by students/lecturer

Short presentation, written term paper, active participation in the class

To be announced in the course

Compulsory module 3.