This class will deal with three different approaches to detective fiction, in particular the structuralist notion of detective fiction as a game played between the author/criminal and reader/detective (Todorov) and the more recent conception of metaphysical detective fiction that subverts this genre (cf. Merivale and Sweeney). Moreover, we will engage with the increasing body of literature that is often subsumed under the notion of transnational and transcultural crime fiction, i.e. texts that interrogate the genre through postcolonial frameworks.
- Lehrende/r: Felipe Espinoza Garrido
- Lehrende/r: Julian Wacker
Communicating Linguistic Methods & Theories (Philipp Meer)
This course will introduce you to a variety of methods for linguistic research. We will refresh and broaden your previous linguistic knowledge (Introduction to English Linguistics) and apply it do hands-on linguistic analyses in groups and on your own. We will be working with speech analysis software, computerized language corpora, techniques developed in language attitude research and software that can be used for basic statistical analyses. We will also focus on aspects that need to be considered when giving a presentation or writing a paper in linguistics. By the end of term, you will be able to apply your acquired methodological skills in future research, for example when writing a term paper in a linguistics class.
- Lehrende/r: Philipp Meer
- Lehrende/r: Philipp Meer