608120 SE Contemporary German Language: Metacommunication

winter semester 2022/2023 | Last update: 09.05.2023 Place course on memo list
608120
SE Contemporary German Language: Metacommunication
SE 2
5
weekly
each semester
German

Knowledge about the linguistic research on metacommunication

Ability to critically handle and reflect different research methods

Ability to analyze language use on the basis of research work

Ability to write a paper

If the linguistic form of what is said or written or the conditions of communication itself are addressed in texts or conversations, speakers act metacommunicatively. They thematize language and verbal interaction with the aim of securing the recipients' understanding or acceptance of what is being said or of steering, commenting or correcting the communication process.


By addressing the conditions of verbal interaction through metacommunication, a self-reflexive reference is established to it. This makes the phenomenon an interesting object of investigation for different disciplinary perspectives: On the basis of metacommunicative utterances, inferences can be drawn about the communication-related knowledge of interactants as well as about rules and conventions of language use. Metacommunication is therefore of interest to linguistic pragmatics. Furthermore, from what is addressed metacommunicatively, normative conceptions of interactants can be reconstructed. This makes the focus on metacommunication a valuable analytical approach with regard to society-related questions. From an educational perspective, research on metacommunication is concerned with the development of the competence to act metacommunicatively in different domains or the effects that metalinguistic awareness has on language learning.


In the seminar, we will first approach the phenomenon by considering metacommunication from a pragmatic, a conversational and sociolinguistic as well as an acquisition-related perspective. We will look at methods of its empirical investigation, also through the use of language corpora. By reviewing empirical studies on research questions from various domains of communication (science, education, business) we will then see that the analysis of metacommunication is relevant to a wide range of application areas. In the course of the seminar, you will develop your own research question in the field of metacommunication, design and conduct an analysis, and document this in a written term paper.

Presentations, reading tasks and discussions, exercises, group work

Oral and written: (short) presentation, (short) written assignment, term paper

To be announced in the course

Cf. Curriculum

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Date Time Location
Tue 2022-10-04
13.45 - 15.15 40832 SR 40832 SR Barrier-free
Tue 2022-10-11
13.45 - 15.15 40832 SR 40832 SR Barrier-free
Tue 2022-10-18
13.45 - 15.15 40832 SR 40832 SR Barrier-free
Tue 2022-10-25
13.45 - 15.15 40832 SR 40832 SR Barrier-free
Tue 2022-11-08
13.45 - 15.15 40832 SR 40832 SR Barrier-free
Tue 2022-11-15
13.45 - 15.15 40832 SR 40832 SR Barrier-free
Tue 2022-11-22
13.45 - 15.15 40832 SR 40832 SR Barrier-free
Tue 2022-11-29
13.45 - 15.15 40832 SR 40832 SR Barrier-free
Tue 2022-12-06
13.45 - 15.15 40832 SR 40832 SR Barrier-free
Tue 2022-12-13
13.45 - 15.15 40832 SR 40832 SR Barrier-free
Tue 2023-01-10
13.45 - 15.15 40832 SR 40832 SR Barrier-free
Tue 2023-01-17
13.45 - 15.15 40832 SR 40832 SR Barrier-free
Tue 2023-01-24
13.45 - 15.15 40832 SR 40832 SR Barrier-free
Tue 2023-01-31
13.45 - 15.15 40832 SR 40832 SR Barrier-free