CJ2RC_JUCJ The Fundaments of the Czech Language Studies

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/0/.7. 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: Petra Rozbořilová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The students acquire fundamental information on language and linguistics almost from structural linguistics view.
The targets:
– get to know fundamental concepts and terms of general linguistics and conception of language and speech of general linguistic point of view;
– get to know the conception of national language and his stratification;
– improve of the elementary knowledge of the fundamental linguistic disciplines;
– improve of the ability to define and to explain fundamental linguistic terms;
– get the presumption for the studying of the linguistic disciplines
Learning outcomes
It is pressupossed that students after ending the course:
1. are able to explain relations between language and speech/speaking, can explaint the constructs: sign, meaning, sence (of language utterance), language situacion, national language, communication...;
2. know languages in Europe and in the World and know position of Czech among other national languages in European Union.
3. know linguistic handbooks and linguistic journals.
4. know 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. Language, communication and communicative competence. Relevancy of the development of communicative competence for the education and edification. Communicative competence and the Framework educational programm.
  • 3. Natural languages, artificial languages. Dialects. Language situation and its types. Bilingual peoples. Di-glossy. Common European Reference Framework. Europass.
  • 4. Origin, source and development of the language. Classification of the language. Languages in Europe.
  • 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. Czech language - maternity language and foreign language.
  • 7. The structure of the language. Language levels and language elements (phoneme, morpheme, sentence, clause, text). Grammatical categories. Grammatical concepts.
  • 8. Linguistics and linguistic subjects. Linguistics and other sciences (semantics, pragmatics).
  • 9. Fundaments of linguistics development. Czech and worldwide linguists.
Literature
    required literature
  • Úvod do studia jazyka. Edited by Jiří Černý. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Rubico, 1998, 243 s. ISBN 80-85839-24-5. info
    recommended literature
  • 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
- Lecture with graphical presentation;
- Discussion on some linguistics problems+
- Study hours of some theme (linguistic disciplines and linguistic terminology, languages of the world, slavonic languages).
Assessment methods
The themen of colloquium are included in syllabus or see adress http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=98
The colloquium is realised in the groups of 3-5 students; each student shall to answer 3 questions (one question of each of the 3 sets A, B, C). 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: 8 hodin v semestru.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=98
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2021.
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