CJp006 Selected Issues of Language and Linguistics

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2019
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 3 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
Timetable
Tue 11:00–11:50 učebna 36
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 subject provides some additional information on linguistics, linguistic subjects and linguistic bohemistics.
The targets:
1. Improvement and fixation of the fundamental knowledge of the linguistic disciplines.
2. Fixation of the knowledge of the linguistic terminology that is required for the next studying of language.
3. Get to know linguistic handbooks and the other printed and electronic sources of the literary Czech.
4. Get to know the linguistic journals.
Learning outcomes
It is presupposed that student is able after ending the course:
1. to distinguish and describe the linguistic handbook and to use them;
2. to distinguish linguistic disciplines and to explain relationships among them;
3. to explain the grammar categories and other linguistic terms (phone, phoneme, word, word categories, sentence, compound and complex sentence...).
4. to explain the categories and terms of the special linguistic disciplines (etymology, dialectology, onomastics, rhetoric…) and of the interdisciplinary linguistic fields (for example of psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics…).
Syllabus
  • 1. Language and linguistics.
  • 2. The structure of the language. Language levels and language elements (phoneme, morpheme, lexical units, sentence, clause). Grammatical categories, grammatical relationships.
  • 3. Grammatical categories of substantives, adjectives, numerals, pronouns.
  • 4. Grammatical categories of verbs.
  • 5. Phonetics and phonology. Sound phenomena of language. Phonemes, sounds of speech.
  • 6. Orthography. Orthographical principles. Types of Orthography.
  • 7. Morphology. Grammatical concepts. Word classes and function of them.
  • 8. Syntax. Elements of sentence, compound sentence and complex sentence.
  • 10. Lexicology. Vocabulary. Words, multiverbal units, phrases.
  • 10. Word-formation. Terminology.
  • 11. Stylistics. Functional styles, style procedures of forming texts.
  • 12. Linguistics journal. Linguistic handbooks (dictionaries, grammars).
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
  • ERHART, Adolf. Základy jazykovědy. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1984, 185 s. info
    not specified
  • GAMMELGAARD, Karen. Two studies on written language :Derrida, Vachek and spoken vs. written language ; Dobrovský's Czech standard language norm. Oslo: Universitetet i Oslo, 1996, 36 s. ISBN 82-90250-68-1. info
  • KOŘENSKÝ, Jan. Dimensionen der Beziehung von Schriftlichkeit und Mündlichkeit in der sprachlichen Kommunikation. In Světla Čmejrková - František Daneš - Eva Havlová. Writing vs. Speaking. Language, Text, Discourse, Communication. 1st ed. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1994, p. 187-192. 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
Teaching methods
- Lecture with graphical presentation;
- Discussion on some linguistics problems
- Study hours.
Assessment methods
To finish the course successfully the students have to write a short composition (minimum: 3 pages A4) - reflexion of some theme of the lecture. It should be handed in one week before finishing the examination period.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Předmět bude realizován při minimálním počtu 10 zapsaných studentů.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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