CJ2MP_JDeL Development of the Linguistics

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Ivana Kolářová, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Ivana Kolářová, CSc.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Ivana Luklová
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 students will be informed about development of the linguistic theory from the antiquity to the present. The first lections will deal with the history of the linguistic in the antiquity, in the Middle age and in the 16.-18. century. There will be accentuated the linguistic of the 19., 20. and 21. century and the development of the Czech linguistic. The students will be informed about the prestige of the Czech linguists in abroad and about foreign bohemistics.
In the end of the course the students will be able explain fundamental characteristics of the linguistic theories of the 19. and 20. century and relevancy of them for the contemporary Czech linguistics.
Syllabus
  • 1. Language and speech. Race development of the language and speech. Speech ontogeneses. Origin and development of the lettering and the scripture.
  • 2. Origin of the linguistics. Linguistics and philosophy. Linguistic theory of some important philosophers. Some important grammars of the antiquity. Panini. Dionysios Thrax. M. T. Varró. M. F. Quintilianus. About some connections in the grammars of antiquity and in the contemporary Czech grammars.
  • 3. Linguistic research in the Middle age. "Universalia" dispute (nominalists x realists). Research of the Latin and "vulgaris" languages. The oldest Czech dictionary (Claret). The oldest Czech works about language (Jan Hus). Humanism and Renaissance. Jan Blahoslav, importance of the grammars by J. Blahoslav for Czech linguistics. "Enlightenment" and linguistics.
  • 4. Diachronic-comparative grammar in the 19. century. The school/group of the "Young grammarians". F. Bopp. R. Rask. J. Grimm, W. Grimm. Importance of the "Young grammarians" for the research of the slavonic and indoeuropean languages. Connection with the Czech linguistics. Czech linguistic treatises in the period of the Czech national renascense. F. M. Pelzl. J. Dobrovský. J. Jungmann. The origin of the Czech scientific terminology.
  • 5. 19./20. century. The origin of the linguistic geography and of the dialectology. The "Muscovite School" (F. Fortunatov). The "School of Kazan". Neolinguistic. 19./20. century in the Czech linguistics. J. Gebauer. V. Ertl. Development of the Czech linguistic terminology.
  • 6. Origin of the structuralism. F. De Saussure. F. de Saussure and development of the linguistic theory of 19., 20. and 21. century, F. de Saussure and Czech linguistics. Prague linguistic Circle. V. Mathesius. B. Havránek. R. Jacobson. J. Vachek. B. Trnka. M. Weingardt. J. Mukařovský... Connection of the treatises of the members of the Prague linguistic Circle with the Czech linguistics of the 20. century. The Volume Spisovná čeština and jazyková kultura (The Literary Czech and Language Culture 1932).
  • 7. Structuralism of the 20. century. L. Hjelmslev and his "linguistic school of Copenhagen", glossematics. G. Guilaume, L. Tesniere, origin of the valence syntax. American structuralism - descriptive analysis of language. L. Bloomfield. Linguistic anthropology. E. Sapir. Behaviorism.
  • 8. Generative and transformatial grammar. N. Chomsky. Terminology of the generative and transformatial grammar (performance, competence; kern sentences and transformation; surface and deep structure of the sentence).
  • 9. Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics. Importance of the psycholinguistics for the maternity speech learning and for the foreign language learning. Neurolinguistics and speech failure.
  • 10. Sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics. Bilingualism and diglosy. Language in the contacts. "Language policy".
  • 11. Linguistics and semantics. Linguistics and pragmatics. Linguistics and philosophy. "Linguistic philosophy" of L. Wittgenstein. Neopositivism.
  • 12. Czech linguistics in the 20. century: (B. Hála, M. Romportl, K. Ohnesorg, E. Palková, M. Krčmová aj.), morphology (V. Šmilauer, F. Trávníček, M. Komárek, Z. Rusínová aj.), vocabulary, word formation (V. Šmilauer, M. Dokulil, P. Hauser), syntax (F. Trávníček. V. Šmilauer, F. Kopečný, M. Grepl, P. Karlík, J. Hrbáček, J. Hoffmannová, O. Müllerová, F. Daneš...), stylistics (M. Krčmová, J. Chloupek, M. Jelínek, A. Macurová, J. Hoffmannová, K. Hausenblas, E. Minářová...); dialektology (J. Kellner, J. Bělič, J. Balhar, P. Jančák, S. Utěšený, M. Racková aj.), onomastics (R. Šrámek, J. Pleskalová, M. Knappová, R. Hosák, I. Lutterer, J. Malenínská, L. Olivová aj.), methodology of the Czech language (M. Čechová, V. Styblík, P. Hauser ).
  • 13. A new linguistic methodology. Theory of information. Quantitative linguistics. Algebraic linguistics. Czech national corpus, his using.
Literature
  • ČERNÝ, Jiří. Dějiny lingvistiky. 1. souborné vyd. V Olomouci: Votobia, 1996, 517 s. ISBN 80-85885-96-4. info
  • MACHOVÁ, Svatava and Milena ŠVEHLOVÁ. Sémantika & pragmatika jako lingvistické disciplíny. Praha: Pedagogická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy v Praze, 1996, 190 s. ISBN 80-86039-05-6. info
  • HELBIG, Gerhard. Vývoj jazykovědy po roce 1970. Translated by Jiří Nekvapil - Jana Holšánková. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1991, 303 s. ISBN 80-200-0312-6. info
  • Vývoj odborných zájmů o češtinu. Edited by Radoslav Večerka. Vyd. 1. Brno: Univerzita J.E. Purkyně, 1988, 140 s. info
Assessment methods
Lecture
Ending of course: Credit.
Credit requirements: Students have to make out knowledge of the themen (see syllabus) during a short discussion.
Student shall write a short essay explaining principles of one of those linguistic trend.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=976
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007.
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