KINDER- UND JUGENDLITERATUR NACH SPRACHWISSENSCHAFTLICHEN KRITERIEN. ÜBERLEGUNGEN ZU EINER INTERDISZIPLINÄREN GERMANISTIK/ CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE FROM A LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE. CONSIDERATIONS ON INTERDISCIPLINARY GERMAN STUDIES

Abstract

The present contribution is an excursus on the origins and effects of teaching with interdisciplinary intent. The research questions arose during the author’s own curricular activity at the German Studies Department of Cluj-Napoca and they relate to the possibility of interdisciplinary work within the curricular activity of the lectures in linguistics and children and youth literature. The role of fairy tales, comics and picture stories in linguistics is examined just as closely as the possibility of processing children and youth literature according to linguistic criteria in the classroom. Concrete examples will be used to explain how the characteristics of the structure and specific features of fairy tales and comic texts can ensure uncomplicated work with grammar while, at the same time, offering students a subtle linguistic and technical basic knowledge, and how the German-Romanian and German-Hungarian contrastive analysis of grammatical terms aim at an optimal consolidation of terms.

Keywords

• children and young adult literature
• linguistic criteria
• interdisciplinary activity
• curricular teaching