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1. German, Faculty of Arts (v3, p92) : Prev:126-366
Credit points: 16.7 3rd and 4th year
Coordinator: Dr L Kretzenbacher.
Contact: One 2.5-hour seminar per week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
At the conclusion of this subject students will have:
- a familiarity with the fundamental criteria of textuality;
- an acquaintance with some basic concepts and methods of text linguistics;
- the ability to analyse German texts according to their micro- and macrostructural features;
- the capacity to describe different text types in modern German
Content:
As opposed to the study of isolated linguistic microstructures by linguistic disciplines such as segmental phonology, morphology, and syntax, text linguistics takes the entire text as the basic unit of linguistic analysis, following a top-down strategy that tries to describe smaller linguistic elements from a global textual viewpoint. A text is not considered as the sum of its words or sentences, but rather as a system in its own right. Thus the aim of text linguistics is the systematic description of the conditions and rules of text constitution and text understanding. Some of the topics to be discussed in the subject are: criteria of textuality, topic and structure of texts, textual reference, and classification of text types.
Assessment:
Written work of no more than 6,000 words.
1. German, Faculty of Arts (v3, p92) : Prev:126-366
2. German, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p117) : Prev:126-366
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Dr L Kretzenbacher.
Contact: One 2.5-hour seminar each week
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
At the conclusion of this subject students will have:
- a familiarity with the fundamental criteria of textuality;
- an acquaintance with some basic concepts and methods of text linguistics;
- the ability to analyse German texts according to their micro- and macrostructural features;
- the capacity to describe different text types in modern German
Content:
As opposed to the study of isolated linguistic microstructures by linguistic disciplines such as segmental phonology, morphology, and syntax, text linguistics takes the entire text as the basic unit of linguistic analysis, following a top-down strategy that tries to describe smaller linguistic elements from a global textual viewpoint. A text is not considered as the sum of its words or sentences, but rather as a system in its own right. Thus the aim of text linguistics is the systematic description of the conditions and rules of text constitution and text understanding. Some of the topics to be discussed in the subject are: criteria of textuality, topic and structure of texts, textual reference, and classification of text types.
Assessment:
Written work of no more than 6,000 words.
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2. German, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p117) : Prev:126-366
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