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Prerequisites for registration: (1) The Minor Methods of Empirical Language Data Analysis covering 30 ECTS-Credits may be selected by regular degree students of bachelor's programmes at the University of Innsbruck, if the respective curriculum provides the possibility to pass a Minor. (2) The individual modules and courses of the Minor Methods of Empirical Language Data Analysis may be studied, provided the availability of places. (3) Students of the Bachelor's Programme German Philology may not select the Minor Methods of Empirical Language Data Analysis.

Learning Outcome: (1) Graduates of the Minor Methods of Empirical Language Data Analysis are familiar with a broad spectrum of methods for the collection, processing and evaluation of language date (including methods of text analysis, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, especially variation linguistics, qualitative and quantitative methods, digital methods). They are able to apply different methods and tools for the analysis of language data, to assess the suitability of methods for specific questions and types of language data (spoken and written language data, multimedia/multimodal data, historical language data) and to use the acquired knowledge for questions from their own disciplines. (2) Graduates of the Minor "Methods of Empirical Language Data Analysis" are able to reflect on the specific (e.g. medial) characteristics of different types of linguistic data, to apply different methods and tools of linguistic data analysis to questions and problems in the profession and science, to critically deal with the social relevance of linguistic data and the methods of their analysis.