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Cultural Allusion, Humor, and Memes On- and Offline

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Lesson Title: Cultural Allusion, Humor, and Memes On- and Offline
Lesson Author: Chantelle Warner
Instructional Language: German / English
Level of Activities: College / Intermediate, Advanced
Text Title:
Text Language: German
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Symbolic Play

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Text Language: German
Text Author: n/a
Genre: Narratives / Social Media
Topic: Media and Technology

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Lesson Title: Cultural Allusion, Humor, and Memes On- and Offline
Instructional Language: German / English
Lesson Author: Chantelle Warner
Level of Activities: College / Intermediate, Advanced
Pedagogical Practices: Reading / Writing / Speaking / Listening
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:

Students learn how memes in the form of cultural references, formulaic language, and images can create humorous, ironic, and even critical effects

Texts, Genres & Practices
  • Reading memes on- and offline
  • Redesigning an existing meme
  • Responding to memes
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
  • interpreting and questioning cultural references and allusions as indexes to socio-ideological perspectives
  • making sense out of the often critical humor that arises in the juxtaposition elements in memes
  • “insiderliness” as a potential effect of memes
  • creating humorous effects through cultural references and allusions in original memes
  • creating juxtapositions of voices and perspectives by remixing or recontextualizing texts in social networks
  • feeling addressed or excluded by memes and cultural allusions
Language Use & Strategies
  • analyzing formulaic language, images, and format in memes as variations of a theme
  • conceptualizing and analyzing heteroglosia as a literary effect in social network discourse and in memes
  • creatively playing with formulaic language, images, and format for ironic and humorous effects
  • using juxtaposition to create a critical or humorous voice
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Symbolic Play

Social Networks, Intertextuality and Heteroglossia

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Lesson Title: Social Networks, Intertextuality and Heteroglossia
Lesson Author: Chantelle Warner
Instructional Language: German / English
Level of Activities: College / Intermediate, Advanced
Text Title:
Text Language: German
FLLITE Form: Symbolic Play

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Text Language: German
Text Author: Misc.
Genre: Social Media
Topic: Media and Technology

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Lesson Title: Social Networks, Intertextuality and Heteroglossia
Instructional Language: German / English
Lesson Author: Chantelle Warner
Level of Activities: College / Intermediate, Advanced
Pedagogical Practices: Reading / Writing / Speaking
Grammar Focus: Direct and indirect speech
Main Objectives:

Students learn how to conceptualize and analyze the kinds of ironic, humorous, and affiliative effects that arise through various kinds of direct and indirect quoting practices.

Texts, Genres & Practices
  • Reading and participating in social network-mediated conversations, as found on Facebook
  • Designing a Facebook post around a meme or quote
  • Transforming a Facebook discussion into a reader’s theater performance
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
  • Conceptualizing and analyzing Facebook conversations as a particular kind of literacy practice
  • Conceptualizing and analyzing heteroglossia and related effects (irony, humor, distancing) in relation to citational practices
  • Expressing affiliation and experiencing feelings of inclusion/exclusion through allusions and references
  • Expressing feelings / opinions through citation and sharing/reposting
  • Creating effects of irony, humor, distancing, etc. through citational practices
  • Experiencing and analyzing differences between online and offline discourse through the estrangement of genre transformation (from a FB post to a theater performance)
Language Use & Strategies
  • Direct and indirect quoting in social networks
  • Technological affordances of sharing and re-posting
  • Verbal and non-verbal cues (especially in relation to effect of irony, humor, distancing, etc.)
FLLITE Form: Symbolic Play

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