Browse Hierarchy GER5204: Contemporary German Studies I

This module covers different aspects of contemporary German Linguistics and will help prepare students for their year abroad. Areas to be covered will include: Where German comes from, how it has developed, and where it is currently spoken; how German is related to other languages; German pronunciation; Contemporary German dialects; German standard forms and non-standard variation in contemporary German; and contemporary sociolinguistic issues, such as register, language & sexism, linguistic purism / Denglisch, Jugendsprache, Gastarbeiterdeutsch.