Seminar Discourse Grammar Di 10.30

In this course we will understand Discourse Grammar as a set of all the linguistic resources that are available for designing texts, irrespective of whether these are spoken or written (or signed) texts. We will make a major distinction between two main domains of speech processing, Sentence Grammar and Thetical Grammar.            Sentence Grammar is organized in terms of propositional concepts and clauses and their combination. It has been the only, or the main subject of mainstream theories of linguistics. The concern of Thetical Grammar is with theticals, that is, with linguistic discourse units beyond the sentence, being syntactically, semantically, and typically also prosodically detached from expressions of Sentence Grammar. These units include what is traditionally referred to as parenthetical constructions but are not restricted to them. The main categories of Thetical Grammar include comment clauses, discourse markers as well as various other extra-clausal categories such as vocatives, formulae of social exchange, and interjections. While being separate in principle, Sentence Grammar and Thetical Grammar interact in multiple ways in shaping linguistic discourse. We will focus on processes which are involved in the rise of theticals, such as co-optation, insubordination, etc. as well as categories of linguistic expressions which are recalcitrant to straightforward classification as either Sentence Grammar or Thetical Grammar units. Course requirement: weekly readings.   • Kaltenböck, Gunther, Bernd Heine, and Tania Kuteva 2011. On thetical grammar. Studies in Language 35, 4: 848-893. • Heine, Bernd, Tania Kuteva and Gunther Kaltenböck 2014. Discourse Grammar, the dual process model, and brain lateralization: Some correlations. Language & Cognition 6, 1: 146-80. • Heine, Bernd, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva, and Haiping Long 2015. On Some Correlations between Grammar and Brain Lateralization. Oxford Handbooks Online in Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press.   Bemerkung ACHTUNG, bitte beachten Sie das Anmeldeverfahren der Englischen Sprachwissenschaft! Eine Anmeldung für diesen Kurs ist nur in der Zeit vom 01.09. bis 25.09.2016 möglich und nicht wie im Feld -Belegungsfrist- angegeben bis zum 21.10.2016. Eine Zulassung erfolgt bis spätestens 07.10.2016. Beachten Sie zur Erläuterung die 'Informationen zum neuen Anmelde- und Zulassungsverfahren in der Englischen Sprachwissenschaft' auf der Homepage der Englischen Sprachwissenschaft. Englisch (MA, PO 2013) Universität Düsseldorf WiSe 2016/17 Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kouteva Tania