UzNJII3239 Loanwords and Borrowings in German

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Iva Zündorf, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Iva Zündorf, Ph.D.
Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 15:00–16:35 L31
Prerequisites
Linguistic skills and language competence on Bc-level
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
At the end of the course students get insight into the scope of integration processes of borrowings in the target language. The actual process of borrowing is complex and involves many usage events (i.e. instances of use of the new word). Conventionalization is a gradual process in which a word progressively permeates a larger speech community. As part of it a newly borrowed word may gradually adopt characteristics of the borrowing language. Although loanwords are typically less numerous than the "native" words of most languages they are often widely known and used, since their borrowing served a certain purpose. The lecture covers the variety of discourses on this topic with special accent on functionality of loanwords and xenisms in different text types and communicative situations. Seminars incorporate student presentations and discussions of the theme (esp. contact linguistics).
Syllabus
  • Borrowings, loan words and cultural contact
  • Different periods of influence
  • Loanwords and their acceptance in the language comunity – historical and contemporary discourse
  • On the problem of the language purism
  • Loanwords and linguistics Terminology; criteria of integration
  • Orthography, pronunciation
  • Morphology, word formation
  • Syntax; stylistic functions in different text types
  • Specific integration - xenisms
Literature
  • Kratochvílová, I.: Zur sprachlichen Integration der englischen Entlehnungen im Deutschen im Bereich der Wortbildung. In: Brünner Beiträge zur Germanistik und Nordistik. Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty Brněnské univerzity R 6/2001, S. 21-38.
  • Carstensen, B. / Busse, U.: Anglizismen- Wörterbuch, Berlin, New York 1993
  • Kratochvílová, I.: Zur Genuszuordnung englischer Entlehnungen in der deutschen Gegenwartssprache. In: Brünner Beiträge zur Germanistik und Nordistik. Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty Brněnské univerzity R 5/2000, S. 67-75.
  • Braun, P. Hrsg.: Fremdwort-Diskussion, Fink-München 19792
  • Polenz, P. .: Geschichte der deutschen Sprache. Bd.III, 9. Auflage. Berlin New York. 1978.
  • Debus, F: Überfremdung der deutschen Sprache? Zur Frage des englischamerikanischen Einflusses. – In: Deutsch als Fremdsprache 38(2001)4/195-204.
  • EISENBERG, Peter. Grundriß der deutschen Grammatik. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1999, 551 s. ISBN 3-476-01642-0. info
Teaching methods
lectures, class discussions, homework
Assessment methods
kolokvium, written thesis
Language of instruction
German
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Study Materials
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