Workshop: I want to fake brie! - Roonerspism Shorkwop

A general introduction into spoonerisms, including their history, their real life uses (deliberate and accidental), and the forms that spoonerisms can take on in different languages (English, German, and Vietnamese), as shaped by the respective language’s phonotactic rules.

“Would you like fake breast for breakfast?” - “I would rather take a coffee, cake and toffee. And later I'll write a sad ballad about this bad salad. But let me shake a tower first.”

No, this workshop won't teach you how to make vegan cheese or meat. Sorry. It's about spoonerisms. Spoonerisms are a special form of metathesis in which sounds, syllables, or morphemes are switched in neighbouring words and syllables. Whether emerging as “slip of the tongue” in everyday speech, or deliberately created as a rhetorical device in poetry and prose, spoonerisms have been observed in different languages dating back at least as early as the 17th century. As the ability to create spoonerisms relies on phonological processing skills, yet does not require a speaker to be literate, spoonerisms have also been used in neuroscience studies to investigate language development and reading disabilities in children. However, neuro linguistic approaches are not going to be the main focus of this workshop.

Instead, we will give you a general introduction into spoonerisms, including their history, their real life uses (deliberate and accidental), and the many forms that spoonerisms can take on in different languages (English, German, and Vietnamese), as shaped by the respective language’s phonotactic rules. And best of all - since it's a workshop - you'll learn how to create spoonerisms yourself and demonstrate your abilities in a group game!

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Tag: 28.10.2023
Anfangszeit: 15:00
Dauer: 01:00
Raum: Hofburg Raum 1
Track: Phonetics and Phonology
Sprache: en

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