AJ2BP_FUKS Functional and Communicative Syntax

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Martin Adam, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Timetable of Seminar Groups
AJ2BP_FUKS/01: Tue 11:35–13:15 učebna 12
AJ2BP_FUKS/02: Tue 14:20–16:00 učebna 12, M. Adam
Prerequisites
AJ2BP_SZKO Qualifying Exam || AJ2BP_SOZK Qualifying Exam
Syntax A, Syntax B
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course presents the English grammar as a tool which enables users of English to achieve their purposes in communication and trie to help language learners to realise that grammar is used in a different way in spoken and written interaction and is further modified by the context of language use.
Syllabus
  • Week 1: Communicative syntax vs. normative syntax. Varieties of English. Week 2: Giving and requesting information. Representing information. Functions of language. Hypothetical Meaning Week 3: Expressing attitude and opinion. Choices in the semantic representation of sentences. Fronting without Inversion Week 4: Expressing feelings and emotions. Linking and grammatical cohesion I+II. Fronting with subject-verb inversion Week 5: Friendly communication and influencing people. REVISION TEST 1. Fronting with subject-operator inversion. Week 6: Linking signals and constructions. Information processing. Topic and focus I. Extraposition of Clausal Subject Week 7: Reference, substitution and omission. Information processing. Topic and focus II Passive Voice Week 8: Presenting and focusing information. Formal and informal language. Extraposition of Clausal Object Week 9: Order and emphasis 1. Fronting. REVISION TEST 2. Postponement and discontinuities Week 10: Order and emphasis 2. Postponement. Polite and familiar language. Cleft Sentences Proper Week 11: Variation according to the status of participants. Personal and impersonal language. Pseudo-cleft sentences Week 12: Variation according to the medium and place. Written and Spoken language. Existential sentences Week 13: Revision. Dialect variation.
Literature
  • Olga Navrátilovás Grammatical Structures in English: Meaning in Context (2005); Svartvik, Jan - Leech, Geoffrey N. A communicative grammar of English. 2nd ed. London: Longman, 1994.
  • COOK, Guy. Discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, xi, 167. ISBN 0194371409. info
  • LEECH, Geoffrey N. and Jan SVARTVIK. A communicative grammar of English. 1st publ. London: Longman, 1975, 324 p. ISBN 0582552389. info
Assessment methods
A two-period seminar (90 mins). Home assignments + home reading. A mid-term test + a credit test + oral exam. More than two absences are not tolerated. Teaching methods: classroom discussions, lectures, students' presentations, home assignments, home projects.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2005, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, autumn 2020.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2008, recent)
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