CS2RC_JUCJ The Fundaments of the Czech Language Studies

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/0/8. 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
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The students acquire fundamental information on language and linguistics almost from structural linguistics view. They recognise the aspects of national language and of its stratification. 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.
- Students acquire knowledge of the linguistic subjects: of fundamental disciplines and of special disciplines and of linguistic handbooks and linguistic journals.
- Students acquire information on the Czech and worldwide linguists, too, and on the history of the Czech and worldwide 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. 2. Communication. Communicative situation and its elements. Communicative function. Speech and Speaking as a special action. 3. Natural languages, artificial languages. Dialects. Language situation and its types. Bilingual peoples. Di-glossy. 4. Origin, source and development of the language. Classification of the language. 5. Functions of the language. Language and meaning. Language and the society. 6. National language and its stratification. Language policy. Cultivation of the language and of the speaking. 7. The structure of the language. Language levels and language elements (phoneme, morpheme, sentence, clause, text). Grammatical categories. Grammatical concepts. 8. Linguistics and linguistic disciplines. Linguistics and other sciences (semantics, pragmatics). 9. Fundaments of linguistics development. Czech and worldwide linguists 10. Linguistic journals. 11. Czech national corpus.
Literature
  • Úvod do studia jazyka. Edited by Jiří Černý. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Rubico, 1998, 243 s. ISBN 80-85839-24-5. 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
  • 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
  • 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
- discussion
- individual tuition
Assessment methods
Tutorial course
Ending: oral colloquium
The themen of colloquium are included in syllabus or see adress http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=1350
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)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: počet hodin konzultací v semestru.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=1350
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2021.
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