Courses and Colloquia
An overview of recent and former courses and colloquia offered in the BA and MA studies:
Courses
SoSe 25
Bachelor courses:
- Oral storytelling (AM 4, Anna Bonifazi with Alice Mitchell)
- Gestures in language and cognition (SM 2, Sandra Debreslioska)
- Einführung in die Diskursanalyse (SM 3, Madeleine Frings)
- Exploring language use empirically (IKB, Anna Bonifazi)
Master courses:
- Pragmatic and cognitive aspects of texts (AM 2, AM 4, SM 1p, Anna Bonifazi)
- Methods for Gesture Analysis (AM 2, SM 1p, Sandra Debreslioska)
Courses offered in previous semesters
WiSe 24/25
Bachelor courses:
- Sprachliche Variation und Korpora (AM 5, Giuseppina di Bartolo)
- Multimodalität in Gesellschaft und Sprachgebrauch (SM 2, Madeleine Frings)
- Repetition, parallelism, and resonance in discourse (SM 3, Anna Bonifazi)
- Communication in language use (IKB, SI, Anna Bonifazi)
Master courses:
- Discourse Studies - overview (SM 1p, Anna Bonifazi)
- Verses, Speech Pace, Montages, Play Loops: Multimodal Analyses of Rhythm (IMT, with Stephan Packard)
SoSe 24
Bachelor courses
- Einführung in die Multimodalität (AM 4, Madeleine Pikowsky)
- Populism, National Identity and Migration Narrtives: A Critical Discourse Analysis (AM 5, SI, Giulia Sperduti)
- Linguistische Aspekte von Bilderbüchern (Blockseminar) (AM 5, Madeleine Pikowsky)
Master courses
- Cognitive Poetics (AM 2, SM 1p, Giulia Sperduti)
- Exploring language use empirically (IKB, Anna Bonifazi)
- Storytelling (AM 2, SM 1p, Anna Bonifazi)
WiSe 2023/2024
- Communication and language use (Anna Bonifazi)
- Conversation Analysis (Anna Bonifazi)
- Discourse Studies - Overview (Anna Bonifazi)
- Discourse and Conversation Analysis (Giulia Sperduti)
- Gender, Identity, and Non-Normativity. A Cognitive Linguistic Approach (Giulia Sperduti)
SoSe 2023
- Cognitive linguistics in discourse studies (Anna Bonifazi)
- Discourse Markers (Giuseppina di Bartolo)
- Intercultural pragmatics (Anna Bonifazi)
- Metaphor and metonymy in political discourse (Giulia Sperduti)
- Request contructions across languages (Giuseppina di Bartolo)
- Segmentation in language use (Anna Bonifazi)
WiSe 2022/2023
- Communication and language use (Anna Bonifazi)
- Discourse Studies - Overview (Anna Bonifazi)
- Figurative Language (Giulia Sperduti)
- Linguistic Structures: Diversity and Universals (Giuseppina di Bartolo)
- Multimodality in language use (Anna Bonifazi)
SoSe 2022
- Conceptual Metaphors (Giulia Sperduti)
- Discourse Studies - Overview (Giuseppina di Bartolo)
- Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) (Giulia Sperduti)
WiSe 2021/2022
- Conversation analysis (Anna Bonifazi)
- Communication and language use (Anna Bonifazi)
- Discourse analysis and Gender studies (Giulia Sperduti)
- Everyday written language use (Anna Bonifazi)
- Macro discourse structure: a cognitive approach (Giulia Sperduti)
SoSe 2021
- Introduction to Discourse Analysis (Anna Bonifazi)
- Interactional linguistics (Anna Bonifazi)
- Language Change and Variation: Subordination, Coordination and Insubordination (Giuseppina di Bartolo)
- Language, Race and Racism (Giulia Sperduti)
- Mehrsprachigkeit (Giuseppina di Bartolo)
- The language of Pindar (Anna Bonifazi)
WiSe 2020/2021
- Communication and language use (Anna Bonifazi)
- Figurative Language (Giulia Sperduti)
- Kognitive Soziolinguistik (Giuseppina di Bartolo)
- Segmentation in language: a multimodal perspective (Anna Bonifazi, Pamela Perniss)
SoSe 2020
- Conversation Analysis (Anna Bonifazi)
- Intercultural pragmatics (Anna Bonifazi)
- Multimodal communication in songs (Anna Bonifazi)
- The language of Homer (Anna Bonifazi)
WiSe 2019/2020
- Discourse Segmentation (Anna Bonifazi)
- Figurative language (Anna Bonifazi)
- Historical pragmatics (Anna Bonifazi)
SoSe 2019
- Anaphora and discourse (Anna Bonifazi)
- Introduction to pragmatics (Anna Bonifazi)
- Pragmatic and cognitive aspects (Anna Bonifazi)
- Pragmatics of punctuation (Anna Bonifazi)
- Storytelling between mono- and multimodality (Anna Bonifazi)
WiSe 2018/2019
- Ancient Greek particles (Anna Bonifazi)
- Multimodality in language culture: Words, Music, and Tears
- Anaphoric markers in Ancient Greek (Anna Bonifazi)
- Discourse segmentation in Greek Historiographical Texts (Anna Bonifazi)
Colloquia
SoSe 25
- Discourse Studies (SM 2a, Anna Bonifazi)
Colloquia offered in previous semesters
WiSe 24/25
- Discourse Studies (SM 2a, Anna Bonifazi)
SoSe 2024
- Discourse Studies (SM 2a, Anna Bonifazi)
WiSe 2023/2024
- Discourse Studies (SM 2a, Anna Bonifazi)
- Komparatistik - Linguistik: Grundlagen der Erzähltheorie: "Mimesis" und "Diegesis" in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart (Anna Bonifazi und Joachim Harst)
SoSe 2023
- Discourse Studies (Anna Bonifazi, Uwe Seifert und Gabriele Giacosa)
WiSe 2022/2023
- Komparatistik - Linguistik: Literatur- und sprachwissenschaftliche Abschlussarbeiten (Anna Bonifazi und Joachim Harst)
- Discourse Studies (Anna Bonifazi)
SoSe 2022
- Discourse Studies (Giuseppina di Bartolo)
WiSe 2021/2022
- Komparatistik - Lingustik: Literatur- und sprachwissenschaftliche Abschlussarbeiten (Anna Bonifazi und Joachim Harst)
- Discourse Studies (Anna Bonifazi)
SoSe 2021
- Kognitive Musikwissenschaft (Anna Bonifazi und Uwe Seifert)
- Historische Pragmatik (Anna Bonifazi)
WiSe 2020/2021
SoSe 2020
WiSe 2019/2020