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Objectives and competences

The aim of the course is to familiarize the students: • with the concept of phraseological lexical units, • with basic characteristics and typical structures of phrasemes in contemporary German, • with semantic, stylistic and pragmatic dimensions of phrasemes used in various text types, • with the issue and role of (contrastive) phraseology in dictionaries, foreign language learning and in translation.

Content (Syllabus outline)

The course familiarizes the students with basic synchronic aspects of German phraseology. The emphasis is on the following topics: • phraseological unit: basic characteristics, • classification and terminology, • semantic features: idiomaticity, polysemy, expressivity, • textual, stylistic and pragmatic features: cohesion, phrasemes used in various text types, • lexicographic aspects: treatment of phraseology in general and specialized dictionaries, • contrastive aspects (German-Slovene): equivalence, congruence, divergence, • translation aspects: translation strategy, • didactical aspects: phraseology in foreign language learning.

Learning and teaching methods

Lecture, seminar.

Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding

Upon completion of the course, the students will be able to: • demonstrate knowledge and understanding of basic German phraseology, • recognize stylistic and pragmatic aspects of phraseology used in a text, • understand problems related to the lexicographic treatment, translation and learning of phraseology, • use proper terminology correctlly, • critical evaluate and use of selected sources and literature.

Readings

• Burger, H., 2015: Phraseologie, Eine Einführung am Beispiel des Deutschen. 5. Aufl. Berlin. • Donalies, E., 2009: Basiswissen Deutsche Phraseologie. Tübingen. • Jesenšek, V., 2013: Phraseologie: Kompendium für germanistische Studien. Maribor: Filozofska fakulteta, Oddelek za germanistiko. http://www.ff.uni-mb.si/dotAsset/40662.pdf • Jesenšek, V. (ur.), 2014: Frazeologija nemškega jezika z vidikov kontrastivnega in uporabnega jezikoslovja = Phraseology of the German language from the perspective of contrastive and applied linguistics. Maribor: Filozofska fakulteta, Oddelek za germanistiko. Izbrana poglavja. • Jesenšek, V. (ur.), Grzybek, P. (ur.), 2014: Phraseologie im Wörterbuch und Korpus = Phraseology in dictionaries and corpora. V Mariboru: Mednarodna založba Oddelka za slovanske jezike in književnosti, Filozofska fakulteta. Izbrana poglavja. • Jesenšek, V. (ur.), Dobrovol'skij, D. (ur.), 2014: Phraseologie und Kultur = Phraseology and culture. V Mariboru: Mednarodna založba Oddelka za slovanske jezike in književnosti, Filozofska fakulteta. Izbrana poglavja. • Izbrani slovarski viri

Prerequisits

Prerequisits for acceding the course: - German language – word formation and lexicology. Conditions for prerequisits: - Completed requirements at the tutorials are a prerequisit for accession to the written examination

  • red. prof. dr. VIDA JESENŠEK

  • Written examination: 60
  • Collaboration in lectures, tutorials and lab work: 40

  • : 30
  • : 15
  • : 45

  • Slovenian, German
  • Slovenian, German