General information

Course name	Seminar: 10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-03 English in Africa
Subtitle
Course number	10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-03
Semester	SoSe 2025
Current number of participants	23
expected number of participants	25
Home institute	Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Courses type	Seminar in category Teaching
First date	Tuesday, 08.04.2025 10:15 - 11:45, Room: GW2 A3390 (CIP-Labor FB 10)
Type/Form
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung	Ja

Lecturers

Prof. Dr. Marcus Callies

Rooms and times

GW2 A3390 (CIP-Labor FB 10): Tuesday: 10:15 - 11:45, weekly (13x)
No room preference: Friday, 11.07.2025 09:00 - 16:00

Module assignments

Universität Bremen
- English-Speaking Cultures: Language, Text, Media - English-Speaking Cultures: Language, Text, Media (MPO 2018), 2. Version valid from WiSe 2024/2025
  - English-Speaking Cultures: Language, Text, Media, MA E-SC (gültig ab WiSe 2018/19)
    - 10-ANG-MA-ExMo1 - Erweiterungsmodul 1 (valid from WiSe 2018/2019)
      - Lehrveranstaltung zum Modul ExMo1 (Seminar 2)
    - 10-ANG-MA-ExMo2 - Erweiterungsmodul 2 (valid from WiSe 2018/2019)
      - Lehrveranstaltung zum Modul ExMo2 (Seminar 2)

Comment/Description

As a result of colonisation, English was transplanted to Africa and has spread over the entire African continent. It has become an official language in approximately one third of all African nations. The degree to which English is spoken as a first or second language variety in the various African countries depends mostly on the colonial history, linguistic situation, language policy and language planning programs of these countries.

In this seminar, we will investigate the historical and socio-political developments that have determined the formation of African varieties of English and we will also study the functions English serves in various African countries and speakers' attitudes towards this language.
Moreover, we will survey recent corpus-linguistic research on Africa Englishes that has provided detailed descriptions of the distinctive linguistic characteristics of particular varieties.

Depending on the assessment needed for their study program and module, students can opt for oral presentations based on extensive reading or corpus-based research projects on selected African Englishes.

Basic introductory reading:
Schneider, Edgar W. 2011/2020. English around the World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (chapters 5.2 and 6.1)

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Anmeldung gesperrt (global)".

The following rules apply for the admission:

Admission locked.

Registration mode

After enrolment, participants will manually be selected.

Potential participants are given additional information before enroling to the course.

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