German, Linguistics 2, I
The course discusses a current research domain within German linguistics. The theme of the course varies.
The aim of the course is to enable the student to acquire extensive knowledge of a current research domain within German linguistics. Further, you will train your skills in performing a smaller research assignment within the specified research domain.
Spring 2025: Exploring Language Varieties in the Diaspora: Methodological and Theoretical Approaches
Migration and its consequences are both characteristics and major challenges of modern societies. This course invites participating MA and PhD students to explore, discuss and reflect on the consequences of migration regarding language contact and language maintenance, as well as the connections between language and identity/ identities.
The course focuses on methodological aspects such as data mining and linguistic analyses of different types of sources, as well as theoretical topics and approaches from linguistics and neighbouring disciplines concerning heritage, religion, identity and difference, foreignness, (multiple) belonging(s), and contact zones/ proximities in multilingual settings from an interdisciplinary perspective
During VT 25, our course TYA705 is co-taught with the CIVIS course which you can find more information about here.
Students who prefer to take the course on campus in Stockholm are welcome to contact Susanne Tienken.
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Course structure
Teaching format
Instruction is in the form of seminars. Attendance at 80 % of the seminars is mandatory. The language of instruction is German.
Grading criteria
Grading criteria:
Betygskriterier och betygssättning Tyska, temakurs i språkvetenskap (355 Kb)
(in Swedish)Assessment
The course is examined on the basis of a written essay and oral presentations in the seminars.
Examiner
Examiners for courses in German (316 Kb)
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Schedule
The schedule will be available no later than one month before the start of the course. We do not recommend print-outs as changes can occur. At the start of the course, your department will advise where you can find your schedule during the course. -
Course literature
Note that the course literature can be changed up to two months before the start of the course.Theme spring 2024 (information in German): Sprache und Migration
Obligatorische Literatur
- Auer, Anita, Thorburn, Jennifer (Hrsg.). Approaches to Migration, Language and Identity. Bern: Lang. (Ausgewählte Kapitel, über die SUB online verfügbar).
- Bartels, Inken, Löhr, Isabella, Reinecke, Christiane, Schäfer, Philipp and Stielike, Laura (2023). Umkämpfte Begriffe der Migration: Ein Inventar, Bielefeld: transcript https://doi-org.ezp.sub.su.se/10.1515/9783839457122 (Ausgewählte Kapitel, Open access, über die SUB online verfügbar)
- Canagarajah, A. Suresh (Hrsg.) (2017). The Routledge handbook of migration and language. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. (Ausgewählte Kapitel, über die SUB online verfügbar).
- Niehr, Thomas (2020). Migrationsdiskurs. In: Niehr, Thomas, Kilian, Jörg, Schiewe, Jürgen (Hrsg.). Handbuch Sprachkritik. Stuttgart: Metzler. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04852-3_29 (Über die SUB online verfügbar)
Weitere Literatur von Relevanz
- Auer, Anita, Peersman, Catharina, Pickl, Simon, Rutten, Gijsbert and Vosters, Rik (2015). Historical sociolinguistics: the field and its future. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 1(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2015-0001 (Über die SUB online verfügbar)
- Jan Blommaert (2010). The sociolinguistics of globalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Über die SUB online verfügbar)
- Knüsli, Ladina (2019) “Sollte dies mein Geschreibsel meine theure Heymath erreichen”: Linguistic variation in the diary of a nineteenth-century Swiss German migrant. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 5 (2), https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2018-0033 (Über die SUB online verfügbar)
- Römer, David (2021). Verschwörungstheorien als argumentative Narrative. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik, 51, 281–298. https://doi-org.ezp.sub.su.se/10.1007/s41244-021-00202-6 (Wird auf Athena bereitgestellt)
- Stolberg, Doris (2019) Canadian heritage German across three generations: A diary-based study of language shift in action. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 5(2), https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2019-0005 (Über die SUB online verfügbar)
- Tseng, Amelia; Hinrichs, Lars (2021). Introduction: Mobility, polylingualism, and change: Toward an updated sociolinguistics of diaspora. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 25(5), 649–661. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12532 (Über die SUB online verfügbar)
Weitere Literatur zur individuellen Vertiefung wird vor Kursbeginn auf der Kursseite (Athena) zur Verfügung gestellt.
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Contact
Study Councellor, German
- Visiting address
Södra huset, house E
Room E 579
Universitetsvägen 10 E
Please contact your Study Counsellor by e-mail.
