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Ved bedømmelsen af prøvepræstationen vil der blive lagt vægt på, i hvor høj grad den studerende
- demonstrerer kendskab til emnet og de relevante tekster, teorier og problemstillinger.
- demonstrerer færdighed i litteratursøgning, selektion og disponering af et givet stofområde.
- bruger relevante fagbegreber, -teorier og -terminologier.
- anvender relevante analytiske metoder.
- giver en teoretisk reflekteret analyse af afgrænsede problemer.
- reflekterer over den anvendte teoris videnskabsteoretiske eller videnskabshistoriske egenart.
- forholder sig vurderende til den anvendte teori.
People can't help noticing that languages change and throughout the ages, poets and princes as well as linguists have felt compelled to comment. The 17 th century poet and politician Edmund Waller wrote: ‘But who can hope his Lines should long last in a daily-changing Tongue?´ England's Prince Charles famous complained in the year 2000 that Americans ‘tend to invent all sorts of nouns and verbs and make words that shouldn't be', and the linguist Edmund Sapir spoke of language "drift" when he wrote in 1921: ‘Language moves down time in a current of its own making. It has a drift.' and ‘Sometimes we can feel where the drift is taking us even while we struggle against it.' Despite the futility of his complaint, Prince Charles was correct about one thing, in that languages don't change by themselves; it is people who change languages. Sapir, however, was right in noting that there appears to be some direction to language change, although we may wonder how a language "knows" which direction to go in.
In this class we will look at various changes that have taken place in English, and try to work out not only the easier question of what happened but, if possible, how and why it happened. Topics range from early changes (the loss of Verb Second) to later changes (the wh - words, who, whom and which becoming relative pronouns) to very recent changes ( like, all and go introducing reported speech).
Bestået bacheloruddannelse.
Johanna Wood
Undervisningen i disciplinen foregår på hold, og der lægges vægt på arbejdsformer, der kan omfatte læsning af primær- og sekundærtekster, mundtlige bidrag fra de studerende, holddiskussioner samt gruppearbejde.
Engelsk
Materials in the form of articles and will be made available at a later date, either as a compendium or posted to FirstClass.
Mundtlig eller skriftlig eller hjemmeopgave eller formidling eller aktiv, tilfredsstillende deltagelse i undervisningen.
Udvalget af eksamensformer afhænger af, hvilken kandidatlinie den studerende følger.
