Instructors: Dr. Christoph Rühlemann
Event type: Seminar
Org-unit: Anglistik/Amerikanistik
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Hours per week: 2
Language of instruction: Englisch
Min. | Max. participants: - | 30
Comment: This seminar focuses on conversation, widely seen as the most fundamental context type of language use. Among the questions we will address are the following: What situation type does conversation occur in? How does this situation constrain language production? What lexis is typical of conversation? To what extent is the syntax of conversation different than the syntax of writing? How can the differences be explained? Does 'anything go' or is conversation structured? How do conversationalists organize turntaking? What sub-genres does conversation play host to? To widen the scope beyond conversation we will also consider non-conversational speech genres such as political addresses as well as conversation-like written genres such as chat and email.