German Dialects

GERM30341 German Dialects 20 Semester 1 Undergraduate Level 3 Wiebke Brockhaus-Grand Unit coordinator German Studies 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Last part of a Bachelors ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 10.0 <span class="TextRun SCXW209904902 BCX8 NormalTextRun" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-user-drag:none;font-family:Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:19px;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;user-select:text;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;" data-contrast="auto" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Dialects are living history. Contrary to popular belief, they are not “corrupt” or “lazy” forms of a language but represent older forms and structures that may have been lost in the modern standard language. So, this course unit takes you on a journey, not just through different parts of the German-speaking countries but also through time – giving you a chance to listen to a range of regional dialects as we hear them today and tracing them back through parts of their history over more than 1,500 years.  <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW172064076 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-user-drag:none;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);clear:both;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);cursor:text;direction:ltr;font-family:"Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:2;overflow:visible;padding:0px;position:relative;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;user-select:text;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW172064076 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-user-drag:none;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;font-kerning:none;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin:0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;padding:0px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;user-select:text;vertical-align:baseline;" paraid="712938927" paraeid="{b24b3559-9ada-4ef1-a7b9-b84adf8987c8}{227}"><span class="TextRun SCXW172064076 BCX8 NormalTextRun" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-user-drag:none;font-family:Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;line-height:19px;margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;" data-contrast="auto" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">This course unit explores the nature and extent of regional variation in German. In doing so, it provides a survey of German dialectology (in the sense of dialect geography). <p class="Paragraph SCXW172064076 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-user-drag:none;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;font-kerning:none;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin:0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;padding:0px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;user-select:text;vertical-align:baseline;" paraid="712938927" paraeid="{b24b3559-9ada-4ef1-a7b9-b84adf8987c8}{227}"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW172064076 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-user-drag:none;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;font-kerning:none;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin:0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;padding:0px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;user-select:text;vertical-align:baseline;" paraid="712938927" paraeid="{b24b3559-9ada-4ef1-a7b9-b84adf8987c8}{227}"><span class="TextRun SCXW172064076 BCX8 NormalTextRun" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-user-drag:none;font-family:Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;line-height:19px;margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;" data-contrast="auto" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">We begin with a general introduction to dialect geography (covering its purpose, history, techniques of data collection and presentation, and the most important theoretical concepts). This is followed by a brief revision of some basic phonetics (as first introduced in GERM10040 Introduction to German Linguistics) to prepare for the second part of the unit. This part first surveys the major German dialect areas (e.g. High German vs. Low German) and then focusses on detailed discussion of three individual dialect groups (chosen from <span class="TextRun SCXW172064076 BCX8 NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-user-drag:none;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI1IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjQiPjxnIGZpbGw9Im5vbmUiIGZpbGwtcnVsZT0iZXZlbm9kZCI+PHBhdGggc3Ryb2tlPSIjRUIwMDAwIiBkPSJNMCAzYzEuMjUgMCAxLjI1LTIgMi41LTJTMy43NSAzIDUgMyIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik0wIDBoNXY0SDB6Ii8+PC9nPjwvc3ZnPg==");background-position:0px 100%;background-repeat:repeat-x;border-bottom:1px solid transparent;font-family:Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;line-height:19px;margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;" data-contrast="auto" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Bairisch<span class="TextRun SCXW172064076 BCX8 NormalTextRun" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-user-drag:none;font-family:Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;line-height:19px;margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;" data-contrast="auto" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">, <span class="TextRun SCXW172064076 BCX8 NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-user-drag:none;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI1IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjQiPjxnIGZpbGw9Im5vbmUiIGZpbGwtcnVsZT0iZXZlbm9kZCI+PHBhdGggc3Ryb2tlPSIjRUIwMDAwIiBkPSJNMCAzYzEuMjUgMCAxLjI1LTIgMi41LTJTMy43NSAzIDUgMyIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik0wIDBoNXY0SDB6Ii8+PC9nPjwvc3ZnPg==");background-position:0px 100%;background-repeat:repeat-x;border-bottom:1px solid transparent;font-family:Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;line-height:19px;margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;" data-contrast="auto" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Hessisch<span class="TextRun SCXW172064076 BCX8 NormalTextRun" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-user-drag:none;font-family:Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;line-height:19px;margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;" data-contrast="auto" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">, <span class="TextRun SCXW172064076 BCX8 NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-user-drag:none;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI1IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjQiPjxnIGZpbGw9Im5vbmUiIGZpbGwtcnVsZT0iZXZlbm9kZCI+PHBhdGggc3Ryb2tlPSIjRUIwMDAwIiBkPSJNMCAzYzEuMjUgMCAxLjI1LTIgMi41LTJTMy43NSAzIDUgMyIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik0wIDBoNXY0SDB6Ii8+PC9nPjwvc3ZnPg==");background-position:0px 100%;background-repeat:repeat-x;border-bottom:1px solid transparent;font-family:Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;line-height:19px;margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;" data-contrast="auto" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Westfälisch<span class="TextRun SCXW172064076 BCX8 NormalTextRun" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-user-drag:none;font-family:Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;line-height:19px;margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;" data-contrast="auto" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> and <span class="TextRun SCXW172064076 BCX8 NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-user-drag:none;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI1IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjQiPjxnIGZpbGw9Im5vbmUiIGZpbGwtcnVsZT0iZXZlbm9kZCI+PHBhdGggc3Ryb2tlPSIjRUIwMDAwIiBkPSJNMCAzYzEuMjUgMCAxLjI1LTIgMi41LTJTMy43NSAzIDUgMyIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik0wIDBoNXY0SDB6Ii8+PC9nPjwvc3ZnPg==");background-position:0px 100%;background-repeat:repeat-x;border-bottom:1px solid transparent;font-family:Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;line-height:19px;margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;" data-contrast="auto" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Alemannisch<span class="TextRun SCXW172064076 BCX8 NormalTextRun" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-user-drag:none;font-family:Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;line-height:19px;margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;" data-contrast="auto" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">). We investigate how these dialects differ from each other, and from the <span class="TextRun SCXW172064076 BCX8 NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-user-drag:none;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI1IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjQiPjxnIGZpbGw9Im5vbmUiIGZpbGwtcnVsZT0iZXZlbm9kZCI+PHBhdGggc3Ryb2tlPSIjRUIwMDAwIiBkPSJNMCAzYzEuMjUgMCAxLjI1LTIgMi41LTJTMy43NSAzIDUgMyIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik0wIDBoNXY0SDB6Ii8+PC9nPjwvc3ZnPg==");background-position:0px 100%;background-repeat:repeat-x;border-bottom:1px solid transparent;font-family:Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;line-height:19px;margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;" data-contrast="auto" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Standardsprache</div> <ul role="list"> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="¿" data-listid="21" role="listitem"> To expand students’ knowledge of a range of regional varieties of German </li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="¿" data-listid="21" role="listitem"> To raise students’ awareness of the nature of regional dialects as living records of different historical processes that have shaped the German language over the past 1,500 years </li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="¿" data-listid="21" role="listitem"> To introduce students to a range of techniques of linguistic investigation, from observation of unmonitored linguistic behaviour to tightly focussed questionnaire-based study </li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="¿" data-listid="21" role="listitem"> To foster an appreciation of the social significance of dialect use, ranging from the stigma of educational disadvantage to the covert prestige of local group membership </li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="5" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="¿" data-listid="21" role="listitem"> To demonstrate to students the gradual development of the field of dialect geography over seven centuries, from the incidental beginnings to the highly sophisticated and technologically advanced studies of today </li> </ul> On successful completion of the course unit, students will be able to: <ul role="list"> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="¿" data-listid="26" role="listitem">show an appreciation of the range of regional varieties of German  </li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="¿" data-listid="26" role="listitem">discuss the difficulties of defining the concept of ‘dialect’ </li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="¿" data-listid="26" role="listitem">critically review the aims and methods of dialect geography </li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="¿" data-listid="26" role="listitem">give a structured and detailed account of the key phonetic and phonological (as well as some morpho-syntactic and lexical) characteristics of a broad range of German dialect groups  </li></ul> The course unit will provide opportunities for students to enhance their ability to  <ul role="list"> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="¿" data-listid="22" role="listitem">critically evaluate specific techniques of data collection and their suitability for certain purposes </li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="¿" data-listid="22" role="listitem">collect, sift and evaluate arguments and factual evidence from published sources in order to shape these into a balanced and coherent discussion of key issues in dialect geography </li></ul> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW246307104 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-user-drag:none;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);clear:both;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);cursor:text;direction:ltr;font-family:"Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:2;overflow:visible;padding:0px;position:relative;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;user-select:text;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW246307104 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-user-drag:none;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;font-kerning:none;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin:0px 0px 13.3333px 24px;overflow-wrap:break-word;padding:0px;text-align:left;text-indent:-24px;user-select:text;vertical-align:baseline;" paraid="462866766" paraeid="{0c162a44-324f-4af6-b361-c9dc95bcff8a}{248}"><span class="TextRun SCXW246307104 BCX8 NormalTextRun" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-user-drag:none;font-family:Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;line-height:21.85px;margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;" data-contrast="auto" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">The course unit will provide opportunities for students to develop an ability to </div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW246307104 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-user-drag:none;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:"Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:0px;position:relative;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;user-select:text;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><ul><li style="margin-left:0px;"><span class="TextRun SCXW246307104 BCX8 NormalTextRun" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-user-drag:none;font-family:Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;line-height:19px;margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;" data-contrast="auto" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">apply specific linguistic concepts to real-world (as well as fictitious) language data</li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW246307104 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-user-drag:none;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:"Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:0px;position:relative;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;user-select:text;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><ul><li style="margin-left:0px;"><span class="TextRun SCXW246307104 BCX8 NormalTextRun" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-user-drag:none;font-family:Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;line-height:19px;margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;" data-contrast="auto" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">critically read and interpret phonetic transcriptions of dialect data, in conjunction with a On successful completion of the course unit, students will have further developed the following skills or competencies: <ul role="list"> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="¿" data-listid="27" role="listitem">working collaboratively (in a group) to analyse given material according to specified criteria </li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="¿" data-listid="27" role="listitem">presenting findings orally in a clear and accessible manner, using appropriate terminology </li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="¿" data-listid="27" role="listitem">reading published material critically </li> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="¿" data-listid="27" role="listitem">viewing a given issue from the perspective of someone else’s intellectual position</li></ul> Other On successful completion of the course unit, students will have further developed the following skills or competencies: ¿ German language skills ¿ intercultural awareness ¿ ability to critically interpret statistical information (e.g. data on dialect usage or variables) ¿ project planning and implementation (in the context of some coursework essay topics) ¿ time management <div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW245103492 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-user-drag:none;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:"Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:0px;position:relative;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;user-select:text;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><ul><li style="margin-left:0px;"><span class="TextRun SCXW245103492 BCX8 NormalTextRun" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-user-drag:none;font-family:Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;line-height:19px;margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;" data-contrast="auto" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">What is a (German) dialect?</li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW245103492 BCX8" 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lang="EN-GB">Why study dialects?</li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW245103492 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-user-drag:none;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:"Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:0px;position:relative;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;user-select:text;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><ul><li style="margin-left:0px;"><span class="TextRun SCXW245103492 BCX8 NormalTextRun" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-user-drag:none;font-family:Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;line-height:19px;margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;" data-contrast="auto" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Overview of the history of dialectology in German-speaking countries</li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW245103492 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-user-drag:none;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:"Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:0px;position:relative;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickn <span class="TextRun SCXW14284926 BCX8 NormalTextRun" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-user-drag:none;font-family:Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, 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Students complete preparatory reading for each seminar and practise analysing dialect data in groups.  0 Other 100% <figure class="table"><table aria-rowcount="3" border="1" data-tablelook="480" data-tablestyle="MsoNormalTable"><tbody><tr aria-rowindex="1" role="row"><td data-celllook="4369" role="rowheader">Assessment task</td><td data-celllook="4369" role="columnheader">Formative or Summative</td><td data-celllook="4369" role="columnheader">Weighting within unit (if Summative)</td></tr><tr aria-rowindex="2" role="row"><td data-celllook="4369" role="rowheader">Open-book online written examination</td><td data-celllook="4369">Summative</td><td data-celllook="4369">40%</td></tr><tr aria-rowindex="3" role="row"><td data-celllook="4369" role="rowheader">Coursework essay/project report</td><td data-celllook="4369">Summative</td><td data-celllook="4369">60%</td></tr></tbody></table></figure> Resit Assessment<figure class="table"><table style="width:200px;" align="left" border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr><td>Coursework essay/project report</td></tr></tbody></table></figure>  <figure class="table"><table border="1" data-tablelook="480" data-tablestyle="MsoNormalTable"><tbody><tr role="row"><td data-celllook="4369" role="rowheader">Feedback method</td><td data-celllook="273" role="columnheader">Formative or Summative</td></tr><tr role="row"><td data-celllook="4368" role="rowheader">Written and/or face-to-face feedback on essay/project plan</td><td data-celllook="272">Formative</td></tr><tr role="row"><td data-celllook="4368" role="rowheader">Written feedback on coursework essay/project report</td><td data-celllook="272">Formative and Summative</td></tr><tr role="row"><td data-celllook="4368" role="rowheader">Feedback on exam technique and subject competence to students who submit an answer to an exam question from a previous year</td><td data-celllook="272">Formative</td></tr><tr role="row"><td data-celllook="4368" role="rowheader">Written and, where possible, face-to-face feedback on exam performance (on request)</td><td data-celllook="272">Formative and Summative</td></tr></tbody></table></figure> <figure class="table"><table border="1" data-tablelook="0" data-tablestyle="MsoNormalTable"><tbody><tr role="row"><td data-celllook="4369">Available on which programme(s)? </td><td data-celllook="4369">Programmes with German Studies  </td></tr><tr role="row"><td data-celllook="69905">Available to students on an Erasmus programme </td><td data-celllook="4369">Yes </td></tr><tr role="row"><td data-celllook="4369">Language of instruction </td><td data-celllook="4369">English </td></tr></tbody></table></figure> Y  Besch, Werner, Ulrich Knoop, Wolfgang Putschke & Herbert Ernst Wiegand (eds.). 1982/1983. Dialektologie: ein Handbuch zur deutschen und allgemeinen Dialektforschung (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 1.1 & 1.2). Berlin: de Gruyter. Boberg, Charles, John Nerbonne & Dominic Watt (eds.). 2018. The Handbook of Dialectology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.  Chambers, J.K. & Peter Trudgill. 1998. Dialectology. 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache. <a href="http://afxoldwndproc423/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://www.dwds.de</a>  Keller, Rudolf E. 1961. German dialects: phonology and morphology. Manchester: Manchester University Press. König, Werner. 2015. dtv-Atlas Deutsche Sprache. 18th edn. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag.  Löffler, Heinrich. 2003. Dialektologie: eine Einführung. Tübingen: Narr. Niebaum, Hermann & Jürgen Macha. 2014. Einführung in die Dialektologie des Deutschen. 3rd edn. Tübingen: Niemeyer.  Russ, Charles V.J. (ed.). 1990. The dialects of Modern German: a linguistic survey. London: Routledge. Stedje, Astrid. 2007. Deutsche Sprache gestern und heute: Einführung in Sprachgeschichte und Sprachkunde. Stuttgart: UTB.  Wray, Alison & Aileen Bloomer. 2012. Projects in linguistics and language studies: a practical guide to researching language. 3rd edn. London: Routledge.   Assessment written exam 1 Seminars 33 0 166 This unit is available as Free Choice, subject to adequate German language skills and willingness to acquire basic concepts in phonetics independently if necessary. To study this unit students must be able to read German very well. Pre/requisite units- Normally GERM10040 Introduction to German Linguistics, or by consent of Course Unit Director.