PdF:A2BP_FUKS Functional Syntax - Course Information

A2BP_FUKS Functional and Communicative Syntax

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Martin Adam, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Petra Hoydenová

Timetable

Thu 14:20–15:05 učebna 60

Prerequisites

A2BP_SOZK Complex Exam || A2BK_SOZK Complex Exam
syntax A, synatx B

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Teacher Training in Foreign Languages - English Language (programme PdF, B-SPE)

Course objectives

The aim of the course is to practice the communicative appproach in the study of English syntax using two strategies: a. the study of grammatical structures at sentence level with regards to their function as statements, questions, directives and exclamatives, b. the study of meaning in connected discourse (utterance level) - linking signals and constructions, word order and emphasis, functional sentence perspective etc.

Syllabus

• 1. Communicative syntax vs. normative syntax. Language in context. 2. Analysing language structures - giving information and expressing opinion. Functions of language. 3. Analysing language structures - expressing a point of view. Clauses with hypothetical meaning. 4. Analysing language structures - expressing mood and emotion. Discourse functions of sentences. 5. Analysing language structures - modality. Speech acts. The co-operative primciple and the principle of politeness. 6. Analysing language structures - linking signals and constructions. 7. Analysing language structures - referring expressions. Grammatical cohesion. 8. Presenting and focussing information. Spoken vs. written language. 9. Order and emphasis. Fronting. 10. Order and emphasis. Postponement. 11. Register variation - formal vs. informal, polite vs, familiar. 12. Dialect variation.

Literature

• THORNBURY, Scott. How to teach grammar. Harlow: Longman, 1999, ix, 182 s. ISBN 0-582-33932-4. info
• SVARTVIK, Jan and Geoffrey N. LEECH. A communicative grammar of English. 2nd ed. London: Longman, 1994, xiv, 423. ISBN 058208573X. info
• VACHEK, Josef. A functional syntax of modern English. Vydání 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1994, 50 stran. ISBN 8021008636. info
• TÁRNYIKOVÁ, Jarmila. Chapters from modern English syntax : (a communicative approach). Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 1993, 105 s. ISBN 8070672684. info
• QUIRK, Randolph and Sidney GREENBAUM. A Student s Grammar of the English Language. 1. vyd. London: Longman, 1990, 490 s. ISBN 0-582-07569-6. info
• COOK, Guy. Discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, xi, 167. ISBN 0194371409. info
• UR, Penny. Grammar practice activities : a practical guide for teachers. First published. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, viii, 288. ISBN 0521329442. info
• LEECH, Geoffrey N., M. (Margaret) DEUCHAR and Robert HOOGENRAAD. English grammar for today : a new introduction. London: Macmillan, 1982, xvi, 224 p. ISBN 0-333-30643-0. info

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Předmět je vyučován formou semináře. Během semestru studenti píší 1-2 progress testy; ve zkouškovém období musí úspěšně napsat credit test a složit ústní zkoušku. Krome toho jsou studentum behem semestru zadavny referaty na konkrétni temata (pasaze z doporucene literatury). Tolerovany jsou maximalne dve neomluvene absence.

Language of instruction

English

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.

Teacher's information

http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=143

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