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Ordbøgerne, nettet og brugerne: Leksikografi nu og i fremtiden
På dette kursus sætter vi fokus på sammenhængen mellem traditionelle ordbøger og de nye informations¬kilder på internettet, herunder online-ordbøger og tekstkorpora. Vi vil se på forholdet mellem sprogbrug og sprognormer i de forskellige kilder, og vi vil sammenligne nettets sprogværktøjer med ordbøger på papir og på cd. Er nettet bedst når det gælder nye ord og betydninger? Hvordan bruger vi bedst ordbøger, og hvordan skaber vi de bedste ordbøger? Kurset henvender sig studerende med interesse for hvordan ordbøger bliver til, og for hvordan man bedst udnytter det der står i dem – eller finder de oplysninger om ord som de ikke giver. Vi vil se kritisk på både en- og tosprogsordbøger og stille skarpt på leksikografiens teori og praksis som den tegner sig i netværks¬samfundet af i morgen. Kurset er tværsprogligt (med dansk som undervisningssprog). Grundbog: Bo Svensén: Handbok i Lexikografi (2004) Prøveform A
Science and Empire
European expansion in the 19th Century coincided with explosive developments in the natural and human sciences – developments which enabled ‘science’ increasingly to come to dominate and to define the horizon of knowledge about the world. The nature of this relation, between science and empire, has become a fertile subject of scholarly inquiry in the history of science in the past few years (MacLeod and Romano).
By treating the sciences as a human endeavour (Bourdieu, Foucault and Daston), this course will investigate central scientific concepts (‘objectivity’, ‘observation’, etc.) and the idea of a ‘scientific self’
(‘detached’, ‘professional’, etc.) in this historical period of European expansion, in order to explore both sides of the relationship between science and empire.
Thus, on the one side, students will be asked to assess the impact of ‘science’ (broadly understood) on European expansion around the world in the 19th and early 20th centuries through a series of specific case studies. To what extent, for example, were scientists handmaidens to colonialism, providing practical and moral support to empire? And on the other side – and in the other direction – European empires in turn shaped (the history of) scientific knowledge itself, in established as well as, at that time, nascent scientific disciplines. From Darwin’s theory of evolution to Durkheim’s sociology of religion, students will examine how natural and human sciences in Europe depended heavily on knowledge drawn from places outside Europe and which was transmitted through the scientific, economic and political networks that sustain empires.
Class readings will be drawn from a range of primary and secondary sources. Although the course readings will cover many geographical areas, there will be an emphasis on the German, British and Danish colonies in the Asian and Pacific region, which was one of the main European scientific and colonial ‘laboratories’. Students, however, will also be able to – and are certainly encouraged – to pursue their interest in European empires and scientific endeavour in other regions within the space of the course. The course will be taught in English. However, depending on class composition, there may be opportunities to read texts in other languages – in particular, in German and Danish.
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