Linguistics in Outer Space
Vorlesung, 2 SWS
- Termin:
- Mittwoch, 11:10 - 12:40 Uhr
- Beginn:
- 11.10.2017
- Ort:
- HSZ/403
Inhalt
Some people with a degree in Linguistics end up in glamorous jobs in the film industry: they work as dialect coaches for elves and other creatures in Lord of the Rings, they create alien languages like Klingon for Star Trek or Dothraki for Game of Thrones, or they come up with gadgets like automatic translators. Some even write Science Fiction novels: there is one in which linguists rule the world!
This lecture will take you where no linguist has gone before: we will investigate the serious linguistic aspects related to selected Science Fiction and Fantasy films. We will devote some time to the study of Klingon and other extraterrestrial languages as well as alien writing systems and look at the issues involved in machine translation and automatic speech processing. We will also come back to what is distinctly human about human language when we try to answer the question why Data as an android is so bad at telling jokes.
Voraussetzungen
Kenntnisse der englischen Sprache
- Lehrende/Vortragende:
- Frau Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange
- Nachweise:
- Teilnahmebestätigung, 1 Cr.
- Ansprechpartner:
- Frau Prof. Köhler
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