FF:NJII_3239 Loanwords and Borrowings - Course Information

NJII_3239 Loanwords and Borrowings in German

Extent and Intensity

1/1. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

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
Supplier department: Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts

Timetable

Tue 10:50–12:25 G23

Prerequisites

Linguistic skills and language competence on Bc-level, recommended to MA students

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25

fields of study / plans 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). At the end of the semester the students will have gained insight into the issue of loanwords, borrowings and xenisms in contemporary language; this will lead to the acquisition of a more advanced competence in the area of text analysis and linguistic characterology of German.

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

required literature
• Polenz, P. .: Geschichte der deutschen Sprache. Bd.III, 9. Auflage. Berlin New York. 1978.
• Eisenberg, P.: Grundrisse der deutschen Grammatik. Stuttgartt 1986
• Braun, P. Hrsg.: Fremdwort-Diskussion, Fink-München 19792

recommended literature
• Debus, F: Überfremdung der deutschen Sprache? Zur Frage des englischamerikanischen Einflusses. – In: Deutsch als Fremdsprache 38(2001)4/195-204.
• Carstensen, B. / Busse, U.: Anglizismen- Wörterbuch, Berlin, New York 1993
• 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.
• 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.

Teaching methods

lectures, class discussion, homeworks

Assessment methods

presentation, written thesis

Language of instruction

German

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Study Materials
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