Course title

Contrastive Linguistics in German

Instructor

LIU Fang

Instructor’s profile

Dr. LIU Fang obtained her Doctor degree from Technical University Berlin (TU Berlin). Her research interests are theoretical and applied linguistics in German.

Course goals

This course aims to the MA students of German Languages and Literature.

Topics

Topics to be covered in this course include comparability between Languages, theories from the western contrastive linguistics, with the exploration of multiple examples from German and English.

Assessment

one oral presentation and one term paper

Reference books

① Adamzik, Kirsten (2004): Textlinguistik. Eine einführende Darstellung. Tübingen: Niemeyer.

② Brinker, Klaus (2010): Linguistische Textanalyse. Eine Einführung in Grundbegriffe und Methoden. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag.

③ Vater, Heinz (2005): Einführung in die Textlinguistik. München: Wilhelm Fink.

④ Janich, Nina (2008): Textlinguistik. 15 Einführungen. Tübingen: Narr.

⑤ Heinemann, Margot & Wolfgang Heinemann (2002): Grundlagen zur Textlinguistik. Interaktion - Text - Diskurs. Tübingen: Niemeyer.

Working language

German & English

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