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German Linguistics - 1st semester

Objectives

To give an overview of how German became a national language;
to outline and apply key linguistic concepts and tools to describe German: the phoneme; from morpheme to the word (word formation processes); from word to text (taking into account syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels);
To describe different modalities (written and oral) and registers (formal and informal);
To describe contemporary varieties of German;

General characterization

Code

711131020

Credits

6

Responsible teacher

Augusto Manuel Leite Múrias

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - Available soon

Teaching language

Portuguese-German

Prerequisites

Intermediate level of German

Bibliography

Hentschel, Elke u. Harden, Theo (2014) Einführung in die Germanistische Linguistik, Peter Lang AG, Bern, ISBN 978-3-0343-1740-5
Graefen, Gabriele u. Liedke, Martina (2008) Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft. Deutsch als Erst-, Zweit- oder Fremdsprache (mit CDROM), A. Francke Verlag, Tübingen u. Basel, ISBN-10: 382528381X, ISBN-13: 978-3825283810
Koenig, Werner (1978) dtv-Atlas Deutsche Sprache, Deutsche Taschenbuch Verlag, ISBN 978-3-423-03025-0
Loeffler, Heinrich (2016) Germanistische Soziolinguistik, 5. Auflage, Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-503-16575-9

Teaching method

The course includes lectures and practical exercises.

Evaluation method

Evaluation: final written test and essay;

Subject matter

Brief overview over the evolution of German into a national language;
Presence of German language in the world and a brief description of its varieties;
Exploring key linguistic concepts to describe German: the phoneme; from morpheme to the word (word formation processes); from word to text (taking into account syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels);
Different modalities of German (written and oral) and registers (formal and informal);