Schröder, Anne; Busse, Ulrich; Schneider, Ralf: Codification, Canons and Curricula
Artikel-Nr.: 978-3-89528-936-1
Language, literature and culture develop according to different sets of rules, and it is the task of linguistics, literary studies and cultural studies to describe both the regularities and the changes in these fields. On the one hand, this description unearths standardization mechanisms that influence practical language application and aesthetic production. On the other hand, although normative and prescriptive statements tend to be avoided to a large extent in the descriptively-aligned philological disciplines, these fields of academic study still contribute to standardization. They implicitly or explicitly define the standards for the 'correct' usage of language or 'good' aesthetic design, for example in reference materials and with the help of other instruments and institutions. Moreover, they contribute to the perpetuation of standards by way of their influence on the curricula of schools and universities.
The goal of the present volume is to examine the developments and functions of such prescriptive and descriptive tendencies by comparing the similarities and differences in the philological sub-disciplines (linguistics, literary studies and cultural studies, as well as didactics) and their respective subject matters.
Several theoretical approaches, models and methods are presented by specialists from different disciplines, opening up new perspectives for further inter- and transdisciplinary research and new vistas on school and university curricula.
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Anne Schröder / Ulrich Busse / Ralf Schneider (eds.) Codification, Canons, and Curricula Description and Prescription in Language and Literature Bielefelder Schriften zu Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft 26 BEAST – Bielefeld English and American Studies 4 2012 ISBN 978-3-89528-936-1 377 Seiten kartoniert |
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Anne Schröder holds the chair for English Linguistics at Bielefeld University, Germany. She studied English and French at the Université de Caen (France), the University of Bristol (UK), and at the University of Freiburg/Breisgau (Germany), where she received her Dr. phil. in English linguistics. Before taking up her present post, she taught at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and at Chemnitz University of Technology. Her research interests are varieties of English around the world, with a focus on tense and aspect in Cameroon Pidgin English, and morphological productivity. She has also co-authored several papers with Ulrich Busse on aspects of English usage guides. |
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Leseprobe: 9783895289361.pdf |
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Bielefelder Schriften zu Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft 26 BEAST – Bielefeld English and American Studies 4 |