Advanced seminar: Sprachwissenschaft Vertiefungsmodul II, IV: The Linguistics of TV-Comedies - Details

Advanced seminar: Sprachwissenschaft Vertiefungsmodul II, IV: The Linguistics of TV-Comedies - Details

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Course name Advanced seminar: Sprachwissenschaft Vertiefungsmodul II, IV: The Linguistics of TV-Comedies
Subtitle Text Structures of TV Comedies
Course number ANG.05278.02; ANG.06107.01
Semester WiSe 2025/26
Current number of participants 47
maximum number of participants 32
Entries on waiting list 1
Home institute Anglistik / Sprachwissenschaft
Courses type Advanced seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Next date Thursday, 22.01.2026 10:00 - 12:00, Room: Seminarraum 2 [AKStr.35] (Angl.)
Type/Form Vertiefungsmodul
Pre-requisites ein Aufbaumodul
Performance record Studienleistung: 3 short written assignments
Modulleistung: written analysis of a comedy sample
Lehrsprache(n) Englisch
Studiengänge (für) LAS, LAG, MA wahlobl.
SWS 2
ECTS points 5

Module assignments

Comment/Description

Over the last 25 years, TV comedies have developed many interesting formats, from retro-parodies ("Look around You", "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace") to documentary-type comedies ("The Office", "Marion and Geoff") and weird sitcoms ("The Mighty Boosh", "Green Wing", "Detectorists", "The Wrong Mans"). In this seminar, we use a text-linguistic approach as well as central humour theories to describe the defining properties of specific formats. We watch several examples of comedies and work both deductively and inductively to produce adequate descriptions of text patterns in TV comedies, including their participation frameworks.
Literature:
Raskin, Victor (ed.) (2008), The Primer of Humor Research, Berlin / New York: de Gruyter

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Beschränkte Teilnehmendenanzahl: Sprachwissenschaft Vertiefungsmodul II, IV: The Linguistics of TV-Comedies".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats will be assigned in order of enrolment.