Training and Research

Credits

0.5

Language

German

Class attendance

Free Choice

Location

VERONA

Prerequisites and basic notions

The teaching will be delivered in German and English

Program

TEACHER

Matthias Hahn (Universität Marburg)

COURSE CONTENTS

The course first gives an overview of the spatial variation of linguistic features. It will be shown that the field of semantics in particular is underrepresented here, since semantic, i.e. contentside variation is more difficult to grasp and map than expressionside variation.

An exciting and hitherto hardly systematically studied area for investigating such variation structures and dynamics is that of the regional use of slurs. The latter are often said to reflect in a special way socio-psychological and cultural differences of regional or national speaker groups. The second part of the course is dedicated to this area and tries, for example, to explore different associative processes in regional insult vocabulary.

TEACHING HOURS/CREDITS: 2h/0.5 credits

WHEN/WHERE

10 October 2022, 10.00-12.00
UniVR - Aula Co-working

READING

  • Technau, Björn (2016): "The meaning and use of slurs - An account based on empirical data." In: Finkbeiner, Rita; Meibauer, Jörg; Wiese, Heike (Hg.): Pejoration. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 187- 218.
  • Technau, Björn (2018): "Going beyond hate speech: The pragmatics of ethnic slur terms." In: Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 14 (1), 25–43

Didactic methods

The teaching will be carried out in the Co-working Classroom

Learning assessment procedures

Modalità d'esame (in lingua italiana)

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE

Assessment

Criteri di valutazione (in lingua italiana)