Objectives and competences
The objectives of the course are:
- to deepen the knowledge about the methods that underly the contrastive text analysis and are based on a relational notion of style,
- to facilitate the recognition of style and its role in the building of textual sense in concrete German and Slovene textual examples
- to offer insight into the (linguistic manifestations of) intercultural differences between texts of the same text types in both languages.
Content (Syllabus outline)
- Contrastive textology as a common denominator for various contrastive approaches to text analysis
- Culture-specific differences in (partly and/or highly standardized) written text types (with a special emphasis on online texts)
- Style as a relational, interactive notion and a key element of textual sense, in connection with concrete textual realizations and their text types
- Methods of a cognitively based contrastive text and style analysis: morphological (linear, successive), holistic (parallel).
- Contrastive text and style analysis of select German and Slovene texts, focussing on the prototypical qualities of text types in both languages
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
On completion of this course the student will be able:
- to understand and use different contrastive approaches to text analysis,
- to identify and evaluate the overall style of texts and text types (holistic view),
- to research and describe the interculturally based differences between texts of the same text type in German and Slovene language,
- to appropriately choose and use culturally specific textual and stylistic elements in both German and Slovene language,
- to use an interdisciplinary approach to text analysis.
Readings
Fix, U., Habscheid, S., Klein, J. 2001: Zur Kulturspezifik von Textsorten, Stauffenburg, Tübingen (izbrana poglavja).
Sommerfeldt, K.-E./Schreiber, H. (ur.) 2001: Textsorten des Alltags und ihre sprachlichen Mittel, Frankfurt/M: Lang (izbrana poglavja).
Adamzik, K. (ur.) 2000: Textsorten. Reflexionen und Analysen, Tübingen: Stauffenburg (izbrana poglavja).
Adamzik, K. (ur.) 2001: Kontrastive Textologie. Untersuchungen zur deutschen und französischen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, Tübingen: Stauffenburg: (izbrana poglavja).
Habscheid, S. 2011: Textsorten, Handlungsmuster, Oberflächen. Linguistische Typologien der Kommunikation. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.
Fandrych, Ch./Thurmair von Stauffenburg, M. 2011: Textsorten im Deutschen: Linguistische Analysen aus sprachdidaktischer Sicht. Tübingen: Stauffenburg (izbrana poglavja).
Gansel, Ch./Jürgens, F. 2007: Textlinguistik und Textgrammatik. Eine Einführung, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (izbrana poglavja).
Hauser, S./Luginbühl, M. 2012: Contrastive Media Analysis. Approaches to linguistic and cultural aspects of mass media communication. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins (izbrana poglavja).
Weidacher, K. / Marx, K. 2014: Internetlinguistik. Ein Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch. Tübingen: Narr (izbrana poglavja).
Straßner, E. 2000: Journalistische Texte. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
