CJKSV_Styl The Theory of Functional Styles with Special Regards to the Journalistic Style

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/0. Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Ivana Kolářová, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PaedDr. Květoslava Klímová, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: PaedDr. Květoslava Klímová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
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
That subject has to give brief characteristics of the text sorts of the contemporary journalistic, especially of newscast that can be applied in the style teaching, and characteristics of the means of expression in the journalistic texts.
It is presupposed that the participants of the course are able after its finishing:
– to evaluate texts of the newscast and other journalistic texts from the factual and functional point of view, and almost from the language point of view, i.e. to evaluate means of expression in those texts; and to give reasons for his opinion;
– to identify means of expression in the texts of newscast that are used inconveniently, and to reason his opinion for the pupils;
– to explain breaking of the communicative and ethical norms if the means of expression are used inconveniently.
Syllabus
  • 1. Language of the contemporary journalistic and newscast texts.
  • 2. Style and language norms for contemporary journalistic texts, especially of newscast. Communication and ethical norms and how to respect them.
  • 3. Genres of contemporary newscast of the language point of view. Characteristics of the texts of contemporary newscast. Expressivity and neutrality of the journalistic language.
  • 4. Characteristics of the internet newscast. Language norms, communication and ethical norms and how to respect them.
  • 5. Common language failures and mistakes in contemporary newscast. Breaking of the literary norms. Breaking of the communicative and ethical norms using inappropriate language.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • MINÁŘOVÁ, Eva. Stylistika pro žurnalisty (Stylistics for the newspapermen). 1st ed. Praha: Grada Publishing, a. s., 2011, 296 pp. Žurnalistika a komunikace. ISBN 978-80-247-2979-4. info
  • MINÁŘOVÁ, Eva. Stylistika češtiny. 1. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2009, 84 stran. ISBN 9788021049734. info
    not specified
  • KLÍMOVÁ, Květoslava and Ivana KOLÁŘOVÁ. Čeština zajímavě a komunikativně II (Czech in an Interesting and Communicative Way II). 1st ed. Praha: Grada Publishing, a. s., 2014, 336 pp. Pedagogika. ISBN 978-80-247-4120-8. info
  • KLÍMOVÁ, Květoslava and Ivana KOLÁŘOVÁ. Čeština zajímavě a komunikativně I (Czech in an Interesting and Communicative Way). 1st ed. Praha: Grada Publishing, a. s., 2013, 296 pp. Pedagogika. ISBN 978-80-247-4112-3. info
  • MINÁŘOVÁ, Eva. Informativní a persvazivní funkce jako konstituující faktor projevu. Funkční styl publicistický (Informative and persvazive function as a constituting element of the utterance. Journalistic functional style). In ČECHOVÁ, M. - KRČMOVÁ, M. - MINÁŘOVÁ, E. Současná stylistika. 1st ed. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2008, p. 244-283. Jazykověda a literární věda. ISBN 978-80-7106-961-4. info
  • KLÍMOVÁ, Květoslava and Hana BOROVSKÁ. Má spisovná čeština potíže? (Are there some problems with the literary Czech?). Český jazyk a literatura. Praha: SPN-pedagogické nakladatelství, a. s., 2006, vol. 57, No 1, p. 19-26. ISSN 0009-0786. info
Teaching methods
Introduction of the tutorial is focused to the short explanation of using unmarked and marked language means in the journalistic texts in connection with the communicative and style norms.
The main part stall be concentrated on textual analysis of the text of printed and internet newscast and on discussion on tendency to the growing expressivity in the newscast texts.
Assessment methods
The participant of the course shall prepare individual analysis of some journalistic texts, preferable text of newscast, especially of the marked and unmarked language means and from the expressivity point of view.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 2 hodiny.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016.
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