Veranstaltungen - Events des Fachgebiets Englische Linguistik

Diese Seite informiert über aktuelle, geplante und vergangene Veranstaltungen des Fachgebiets Englische Linguistik an der TU Darmstadt.

Gastvorträge

Das Fachgebiet Englische Linguistik des Instituts für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft der TU Darmstadt lädt regelmäßig renomierte Wissenschaftler aus dem Inn- und Ausland zu Gastvorträgen am Institut ein, zu denen Studierende besonders herzlich eingeladen sind.

Die Abteilung Englische Linguistik des Instituts für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft lädt ein zu einem Vortrag von

Prof. Dr. Christian Mair,
Englisches Seminar der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg

Termin: 5. Juni 2008, 14:30 Uhr, S1 03 / 121

zum Thema:
Corpus linguistics meets sociolinguistics: first findings from ICE Jamaica

In a study devoted to a case of ongoing grammatical change in contemporary American English, Rickford / Espinoza / Mendoza-Denton & Wasow have recommended "exploration on the boundaries of sociolinguistic variation, corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, and syntax" (1995: 129) as an innovative and highly appropriate methodology for analysing sociolinguistic variation and change. Taking up their cue, the present paper uses the recent completion of the Jamaican component of the International Corpus of English as a starting point for a study of educated spoken usage in this country.  Prominent among the variables singled out for detailed quantitative study are rhoticity (analysed on the basis of the ICE sound recordings), subject-verb agreement, (lack of) inversion of subject and verb in questions, contractions, and lexical choices among stylistically differentiated pairs of synonyms (e.g. persons vs. people). A primarily qualitative approach will be adopted for the study of code switching between English and patois/ Jamaican Creole and the use of quotatives (including the new quotatives go and be like, which have figured prominently in recent research on the globalisation of vernacular forms).
I will conclude by assessing the extent to which corpus data can help to shed light on "beyond the corpus" issues such as the nature of emerging norms of educated usage, or the status of English as first or second language in a Creolophone context. Where appropriate, findings from previously completed ICE corpora documenting other national varieties of English will be used for comparison.
 
Reference: Rickford, John R., Norma Mendoza-Denton, Thomas A. Wasow, and Juli Espinoza. 1995. "Syntactic variation and change in progress: loss of the verbal coda in topic restricting as far as constructions." Language 71: 102-31. 

LinglitSpecialEvents

Ein bis zweimal im Jahr veranstaltet das Fachgebiet Englische Linguistik ein sogenanntes LinglitSpecialEvent. Es handelt sich dabei um thematische fokusierte Workshops zu einem der Arbeits- und Interessensschwerpunkte des Fachgebiets.

Workshops & Conferences

Workshop on Linguistic Processsing Chains (10 July 2008)