CJp419 Spoken Czech

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
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 of Seminar Groups
CJp419/01: Mon 18:00–18:50 učebna 72, I. Kolářová
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 subject is focused to the: (a) characteristic marks of contemporary spoken Czech in various communicative situation;
(b) characteristic marks of contemporary spoken Czech in accordance with regional lingual customs or in accordance with the customs of social group or with the age of the speakers;
(c) acquainting the students with the authentic spoken texts studying records of them and they will identify special sound (vowel- and consonantal) and teaching the students to identify grammatical marks that differ the variety of the spoken language in various regions and standard and non-standard speech.
Learning outcomes
After finishing the subject/course students are able to:
- describe spoken texts;
- explain the differences between written and spoken text and connection of the texts and communicative situation;
- distinguish standard and non-standard spoken texts and colloquial Czech and non-standard (vernacular or slang) speech;
- to evaluated non-cultivated and non-standard speech of pupils and to explain why the standard Czech is needed in formal speech and in formal situation.
Syllabus
  • 1. Communication, communicative situations. Spoken and written texts. Prepared and unprepared spoken texts in various communicative situations.
  • 2. Czech language in its variety. Standard Czech and its stylish variety. Colloquial Czech as a stylish variant of the standard Czech.
  • 3. Dialects and interdialects of Czech language today. Sound and morphological structure of the dialects. Dialect in everyday communication and in the literary texts.
  • 4. Common Czech. Sound (vowel and consonantal) and morphological structure of the common Czech. Common Czech in contemporary communication.
  • 5. Social variety structure of the Czech language in contemporary communication. Slang and "professional speech (professional lexicon)" in concurrence with the standard Czech and with the terminology (nomenclature).
  • 6. Dichotomy of standard and non-standard Czech in the spoken texts. The "usually" spoken Czech / everyday spoken Czech in accordance with the regional origin of the speaker.
  • 7. Identification of the vernacular lexicon, identification of vowels and consonants and grammatical structure of dialects and of common Czech in the records of spoken texts.
  • 8. Sentential structure of the spoken texts. Characteristic sentential structure of the spoken texts compare to the written texts: (a)additionall structures in the end of sentence, correction of the utterance; (b) repetition of the words and structures, paralells, stereotypes of structure.
  • 9. Sentential structure of the spoken texts. (a) additionall structures with the "preparative" function, filling words; (b) unfinished/incomplete sentences.
  • 10. Monolog and dialog. Structure of dialog. Contact words and the function of them.
  • 11. Speaking and cultivation of speech.
  • 12. Characteristic marks of spoken Czech in the teaching Czech as a foreign language.
Literature
  • VOJTOVÁ, Jarmila. Mluva Čechů v cizině (Language of Czechs abroad). In Rusinová, Eva. Přednášky a besedy z XLIX. běhu LŠSS. Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2016, p. 238-244, 6 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-8207-6. info
  • SVOBODOVÁ, Hana. Poznámky ke stratifikaci českého jazyka. (Notes to the stratification of the Czech language.). In Přednášky a besedy ze XLIX. ročníku LŠSS. Brno: Kabinet českého jazyka a literatury FF MU Brno, 2016, p. 217-225. ISBN 978-80-210-8207-6. info
  • MARTINEC, Ivo. Nespisovné útvary a stylové rozvrstvení v rámci výuky češtiny jako cizího jazyka na zahraničních školách (Substandard units and stylish layering in teaching Czech as a foreign language at foreign schools). In Klímová, Květoslava; Kolářová, Ivana; Tušková, Jana Marie. Stylistika v kontextu historie a současnosti. 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013, p. 249-254. ISBN 978-80-210-6114-9. info
  • Čeština v mluveném korpusu. Edited by Marie Kopřivová - Martina Waclawičová. Vyd. 1. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2008, 273 s. ISBN 9788071069829. info
  • Čeština v dialogu generací. Edited by Jana Hoffmannová - Olga Müllerová. Vydání první. Praha: Academia, 2007, 455 stran. ISBN 9788020015495. info
  • HOFFMANNOVÁ, Jana, Olga MÜLLEROVÁ and Jiří ZEMAN. Konverzace v češtině při rodinných a přátelských návštěvách. 1st ed. Praha: Trizonia, 1999, 256 pp. ISBN 80-85573-71-7. info
  • Writing vs speaking :language, text, discourse, communication : proceedings of the conference held at the Czech Language Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, October 14-16, 1992. Edited by Světla Čmejrková - František Daneš - Eva Havlová. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1994, 413 s. ISBN 3-8233-5057-9. info
  • MÜLLEROVÁ, Olga, Jana HOFFMANNOVÁ and Eva SCHNEIDEROVÁ. Mluvená čeština v autentických textech. Vyd. 1. Jinočany: H & H, 1992, 236 s. ISBN 80-85467-96-8. info
  • Text and the pragmatic aspects of language. Edited by Jan Kořenský - Jana Hoffmannová. Praha: Ústav pro jazyk český ČSAV, 1984, 210 s. URL info
  • České nářeční texty. Edited by Arnošt Lamprecht - Věra Lamprechtová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1976, 425 s. URL info
Teaching methods
Lecture with the illustrative presentation.
Collective analysis of the records of spoken texts. Individual works with the records of spoken Czech.
Individual study of the linguistic literature.
Assessment methods
Oral examination.
(a)Student shall be able to present theoretical knowledge on the spoken Czech and on its differentiation (regional, social). There are themes of the examination in the syllabus.
(b) Student shall be able to analyse records of spoken texts from sound (vowel and consonantal), morphological and sentential points of view and to identify a shortcoming concerning the cultivated speech.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2018, autumn 2020, Autumn 2021.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2019, recent)
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