Intendierte Lernergebnisse
Upon completion of this seminar, students will be familiar with ecology as an important social and cultural space in which language and discourse play a major role. Students will deepen their knowledge of linguistic and discursive practices and their constitutive functions in the field of ecology and its related discourses. In addition, students will familiarize themselves with adquate linguistic methods to analyze ecological discourses and ideologies behind them.
Lehrmethodik
- theoretical input and discussion of major sociolinguistic and applied linguistic research on the language and discourses of ecology- critical reading and discussion of relevant literature- practical work with authentic data from documentaries, social media, broad sheet press etc. - student presentations
Inhalt/e
The seminar on ecolinguistics will cover the following thematic domains- the language of nature, environment and ecology- discourses on climate and climate change- greenwashing- discourses on food & health - discourses of animals .... In addition, methods of (critical) discourse analysis and other linguistics methods to unravel eco-discourses will be covered
Erwartete Vorkenntnisse
Students should be familiar with linguistic concepts such as discourse etc. and should be interested and willing to participate in critical discussions and critical thinking.
Literatur
Stibbe, Arren (2021). Ecolinguistics. Language, ecology and the stories we live by. London/ New York: Routledge.+ additional material via Moodle