Advanced seminar: Political Language: Focus on the US election campaign - Details

Advanced seminar: Political Language: Focus on the US election campaign - Details

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Course name Advanced seminar: Political Language: Focus on the US election campaign
Semester SS 2024
Current number of participants 24
maximum number of participants 25
Home institute Englische Sprachwissenschaft
Courses type Advanced seminar in category Teaching
First date Tuesday, 16.04.2024 08:15 - 09:45, Room: (D, 2004)
Veranstaltung findet in Präsenz statt / hat Präsenz-Bestandteile Yes
Hauptunterrichtssprache englisch

Rooms and times

(D, 1003)
Tuesday: 08:15 - 09:45, weekly (11x)
(D, 2004)
Tuesday: 08:15 - 09:45, weekly (2x)

Module assignments

Comment/Description

[FOR MA EAS STUDENTS: This course is an essential part of the base module for MA English & American Studies ("Theories & Methods", English Majors). When studying MA EAS, please also attend the companion course "Research Methods" during the summer term 2024.

Course Description:
Political language is a clearly persuasive form of discourse, which seeks to convince the audience of the validity of one’s own view and one’s integrity, on the one hand, and of the misguided nature of the political opponents’ views, on the other hand. This is especially apparent in campaign discourse. In this course, we will be drawing on the resources of (classical) rhetoric, discourse and conversation analysis, pragmatics and cognitive linguistics in order to analyse how Republican and Democratic candidates present themselves to the voters. Aspects that will be treated include the following: metaphors, pronouns (deixis), repetition, interactiveness, self-positioning.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Zeitgesteuerte Anmeldung: Political Language: Focus on the US election campaign".
Studierende der Anglistik/Amerikanistik und des Faches Englisch können sich bereits während der vorgezogenen Anmeldephase zur Sicherstellung des Studienfortschritts für die Aufbau- und Vertiefungsmodule anmelden. Hierzu wird ein gewisses Kontingent der Kursplätze im Zeitraum vom 19.02.2024 bis 28.02.2024 für die Anmeldung geöffnet. Die Verteilung der Plätze erfolgt am 01.03.2024. Bitte beachten Sie, dass in dieser Anmeldephase Studierende in höheren Fachsemestern bei der Verteilung der Plätze priorisiert werden.
Die allgemeine Anmeldephase beginnt am 04.03.2024 und endet am 08.04.2024.
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats in the affected courses have been assigned at 10.04.2024 on 12:00. Additional seats may be available via a wait list.
  • The enrolment is possible from 04.03.2024, 08:00 to 08.04.2024, 12:00.