Exploring Churchill’s political speeches : The case for digitality in interdisciplinary linguistics and history teaching

Interdisciplinary didactic concepts can greatly benefit from digitality as a facilitator of interdisciplinary teaching and learning. This paper presents an interdisciplinary digital teaching concept on British Political Speeches; it is based on a course held with an interdisciplinary group of teachers and students from history and linguistics in an undergraduate course at Technische Universität Darmstadt. Explorations of the rhetoric of political speeches may start off from either linguistic or historical questions; combining both with digitality as a facilitator can lead to students’ deeper engagement with political rhetoric from an interdisciplinary perspective.