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Advanced seminar: Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwisenschaft 2 - Gebrauch der englischen Sprache (Typ B) - English Dictionaries - Details
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Course name Advanced seminar: Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwisenschaft 2 - Gebrauch der englischen Sprache (Typ B) - English Dictionaries
Course number ANG.03233.02
Semester WS 2011/12
Current number of participants 1
Home institute Anglistik / Sprachwissenschaft
Courses type Advanced seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Thursday, 13.10.2011 10:00 - 12:00, Room: (Dachritzstr. 12, R. 214)
Pre-requisites Prerequisites:
modularisierte Studiengänge: Aufbaumodul(e) Sprachwissenschaft nach Maßgabe der jeweils zutreffenden Studien- und Prüfungsordnung
Alte Studiengänge: erfolgreich abgeschlossenes Grundstudium
Studiengänge (für) LA alt, MA, D wahlobl.
Vertiefungsmodul II: Gebrauch der englischen Sprache (wahlobl. für LAS und LAG 1. U-Fach; fakultativ für LAG 2. U-Fach, obl. für MA 45/75, 120)
SWS 2
Miscellanea Registration:
Via Stud.IP and Löwenportal

Credit:
5 LP: Regular attendance, active participation
Studienleistung: presentation of a Referat in class
Modulleistung: A written version of this paper to be handed in by March 31st 2012 at the latest. Late papers will not be accepted!
For assignments, prospective presenters of papers should contact me as early as possible.

Reserve bookshelf:
A reserve bookshelf will be put up in the departmental library and an extensive bibliography of secondary sources and suggested topics for term papers will be made available via Stud.IP.
ECTS points 5

Rooms and times

(Dachritzstr. 12, R. 214)
Thursday: 10:00 - 12:00, weekly (15x)

Comment/Description

Course outline:
It is a commonplace that dictionaries give spellings and meanings of words, but, in addition, they offer a wide range of linguistic data, for example: pronunciation, etymology, information on usage, collocations, etc. However, for the inexperienced dictionary user it is not always easy to decode this information. Therefore, one goal of this seminar will be to investigate critically what kind of information is or should be contained in a dictionary and whether lexicographical and lexicological principles are always compatible.
The seminar will focus on those dictionary types which are of prime importance for students of English and prospective English teachers: learners’ dictionaries, desk dictionaries and comprehensive dictionaries based on historical principles. Brief attention will also be paid to dictionaries for special purposes, such as etymological dictionaries, synonym dictionaries, dictionaries of neologisms, construction dictionaries, etc.

Required Reading:
As an introduction students should read:
1) Wolski, Werner “Lexikologie und Lexikographie”. In: Cruse, Alan et al., eds. (2005). Lexikologie. Lexicology. Berlin: de Gruyter, vol. 2, article 228, pp. 1816-1828.
2) “Words in dictionaries”. In: Quirk, Randolph and Gabriele Stein (1990). English in Use. Harlow: Longman, 146-172.

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