About the Course
Hand-on Research: Language Change Across the Lifespan
**BITTE BEACHTEN SIE: Diese Veranstaltung ist Teil I der Optionalbereichsmodule DH-Methoden und DH-Anwendung, um das jeweilige Modul abzuschließen müssen sie zusätzlich noch Teil II belegen (siehe Modulbeschreibung). Diese Veranstaltung kann von Studierenden der Anglistik nur im Rahmen der Fachlehre und nicht über den Optionalbereich belegt werden, melden Sie sich zur Anmeldung daher bitte hier: dh-ruhr@rub.de **
In this course we will investigate how individual speakers do or do not change their linguistic habits during the course of their life. The seminar gives an overview over the mechanisms of language change, both across time as well as across the life-course of the speaker. We will consider the linguistic effects of different life stages, such as the onset of schooling, the transition to university, the “middle years” as well as retirement. This course will be hands-on and we will investigate a range of changes in progress at different levels of linguistics structure in a cohort of 6 speakers who graduated from university and have embarked on different career trajectories.
Dozentin: Isabelle Buchstaller