Course: German-Croatian Language Contacts in Burgenland

ECTS credits: 3

Language: German

Duration: one semester

Status: elective

Course type: 1 hour of seminar, 1 hour of lesson

Course description: This course offers an insight in the language of Burgenland Croats with a special emphasis on the elements of Burgenland Croatian influenced by (Austrian) German. The course introduces students to key concepts in the field of language contact, study methods and their application in the linguistic analysis of various texts.

Learning outcomes: Students will be able to: recognize key phenomena in the field of language contact, compare linguistic phenomena in Burgenland Croatian to various phenomena in the language and dialects of other Croatian communities outside Croatia, apply methods of analysis used in studies in the field of language contact, transcribe TV shows and interviews with informants from Burgenland and conduct language biographical (narrative) interviews with informants.

Teaching methods: teaching through lectures, classroom discussion

Literature: Ščukanec, Aleksandra (2011): Njemačko-hrvatski jezični dodiri u Gradišću, Zagreb: Hrvatska matica iseljenika; Benčić, Nikola i dr. (2009): Pravopis gradišćanskohrvatskoga književnoga jezika. Eisenstadt: hkdc-Kroatisches Kultur- und Dokumentationszentrum; Berlakovich, Mirko (1999): Hrvatska gramatika: Mali pregled gramatike gradišćanskohrvatskoga i hrvatskoga jezika (usporedna gramatika), Eisenstadt: hkdc Kroatisches Kultur- und Dokumentationszentrum; Kampuš, Ivan (1995): Povijest i kultura gradišćanskih Hrvata. Zagreb: Nakladni zavod Globus; Riehl, Claudia Maria (2004): Sprachkontaktforchung: eine Einführung. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.

Evaluation Methods and Grading: class attendance, oral presentation, written exam