German Studies Profs. David Gramling and Chantelle Warner have published their co-authored article “Toward a Contact Pragmatics of Literature: Habitus, Text, and the Advanced L2 Classroom" in the 2010 AAUSC volume Critical and Intercultural Theory and Language Pedagogy. In this piece, Warner and Gramling sketch out a new pedagogical theory for teaching literary texts in the advanced foreign language classroom. They term this approach Contact Pragmatics, a hybrid model based in the insights of contact linguistics and literary pragmatics. The volume is available at aausc.org.
David Gramling's research interests include multilingual film and literature, Turkish German migration and literary history, theoretical approaches to monolingualism, transnational Berlin, literary translation and stylistics, gender and disability studies. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled The Invention of Monolingualism.
Dr. Chantelle Warner is Assistant Professor of German and a faculty member of the Interdisciplinary Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where she specialized in 20th-century and contemporary German literature and applied linguistics. She has also studied in Münster and Frankfurt. Dr. Warner’s teaching and research interests cross the fields of literary and linguistic study. Her scholarly work focuses on language, and in particular literary language, as a site of struggle for social power and the investigation of how meanings and access to certain practices are regulated and controlled.