CJ3BP_JUJJ The Fundaments of the Language and Linguistics Studies

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Ivana Kolářová, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Ivana Kolářová, CSc.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Nataša Vrbová
Timetable
Wed 7:55–8:40 učebna 1
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 get fundamental linguistic knowledge in connection with the language levels and with the fundaments of linguistic disciplines. Students get general information of language from structural linguistics view. They recognise the aspects of national language and of its stratification, linguistic methodology. Fundamental information are supplement by the information on the position of national languages and on position of Czech among other national languages in European Union, on the Common European Reference Framework, on the relevancy of language and communicative competence in the education. They work with language handbooks (grammar books, dictionaries) and linguistic journals. They get information on the Czech and worldwide linguists, too. Students recognise the history of the Czech and foreign linguistics. The information of this subject are important for the further training in Czech language (for the training in special linguistic journals, too.
It is pressupossed that student after ending the course:
- is able to explain relations between language and speech/speaking, can explaint the constructs: sign, meaning, sence (of language utterance), language situacion, national language, communication...;
- is able to define linguistic terms that are used in linguistic disciplines;
- knows famous Czech and world-wide linguists.
Syllabus
  • 1. Language. Signs. Concept, language meaning, sense. Language and speech. Synchrony. Diachrony.
  • 2. Language and speaking as a special action. Speech acts.
  • 3. Language and communication. Communicative situation and its elements. Language, communication and communicative competence. Relevancy of the development of communicative competence for the education and edification. Communicative competence and the Framework educational programm.
  • 4. Communicative function and attitude of the speaker.
  • 5. Natural languages, their origin, source and development. Artificial languages, their perspective in the international communication.
  • 6. Dialects. Language situation and its types. Bilingual peoples. Di-glossy. Common European Reference Framework. Europass.
  • 7. Functions of the language. Language and meaning. Language and the society.
  • 8. The structure of the language. Language levels and language elements (phoneme, morpheme, sentence, clause, text). Grammatical categories. Grammatical concepts.
  • 9. Classification of the language and its criterion.
  • 10. Linguistics and linguistic disciplines. Linguistic terminology.
  • 11. Linguistics and other sciences (semantics, pragmatics, ethnic linguistics, sociology and linguistics, paralinguistic).
  • 12. Development of the linguistic sciences from the ancient period. The period pre-scientific and scientific. Comparative methodology and historical grammar. Structuralism and its forms, its development. Generative grammar. Dependence syntax.
  • 13. Czech and foreign famous linguists.
Literature
  • HIRSCHOVÁ, Milada. Pragmatika v češtině. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2006, 243 s. ISBN 8024412837. info
  • Úvod do studia jazyka. Edited by Jiří Černý. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Rubico, 1998, 243 s. ISBN 80-85839-24-5. 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
  • ČEJKA, Mirek. Úvod do studia jazyka (pro bohemisty ). (Introduction to the Study of Language (For Bohemists).). In Úvod do studia jazyka (pro bohemisty ). Brno: Masarykova univerzita Brno, 1996. ISBN 80-210-1393-1. info
  • ČERMÁK, František. Jazyk a jazykověda : (přehled). 1. vydání. Praha: Pražská imaginace, 1994, 251 stran. ISBN 8071101494. info
  • SAUSSURE, Ferdinand de. Kurs obecné lingvistiky. Edited by Albert Sechehaye - Charles Bally - Tullio De Mauro, Translated by Fran. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1989, 467 s. ISBN 8020700706. info
  • PALEK, Bohumil. Základy obecné jazykovědy. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1989, 285 s. ISBN 8004229379. info
  • Vývoj odborných zájmů o češtinu. Edited by Radoslav Večerka. Vyd. 1. Brno: Univerzita J.E. Purkyně, 1988, 140 s. info
  • ERHART, Adolf. Základy jazykovědy. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1984, 185 s. info
Teaching methods
- reading, lecture
- presentations
- study hours
Assessment methods
Lecture. Ending: oral colloquium
The themen of colloquium are included in syllabus or see adress http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=1212
The colloquium is realised in the groups of 3-5 students; the students decide by lot two questions. The answers are evaluated according to the correctness and to the speech cultivation, too.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=1212
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018.
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