NJ3DC_1TSN Tendencies in Contemporary German

Faculty of Education
autumn 2020
Extent and Intensity
0/0/12. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Roland Anton Wagner, M.A., Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Věra Janíková, Ph.D.
Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Helena Rytířová
Supplier department: Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
NJ3DC_1TSN/01: Sat 10. 10. 12:00–13:20 učebna 64, Sat 7. 11. 12:00–13:20 učebna 64, Sat 5. 12. 12:00–13:20 učebna 64, R. Wagner
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
During the course, students get acquainted with the most important tendencies in diachronic change concerning the German language after World War II. The overall aim is to make students aware of the variability of language and to prevent them from building up an attitude fixed exclusively on formal correctness in foreign language use.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
- distinguish between linguistic changes and changes in the no-linguistic sections of language competence,
- recall the most important tendencies of development in modern German,
- recognize the effects of linguistic change in language material,
- analyze language material in a chosen domain with regard to resent linguistic innovations.
Syllabus
  • - Introduction: linguistic change and models explaining linguistic change;
  • - changes in the pronunciation after World War II;
  • - restructuring in inflectional morphology (shifts in inflectional classes, reducing redundend case marking, expansion of periphrastic constructions);
  • - expansions in derivational morphological (affixoids);
  • - syntactic changes (the rise of the transitiv pattern, embedded clauses with "weil");
  • - changes in the lexicon and integration of loan words.
Literature
    required literature
  • MASAŘÍK, Zdeněk and Iva ZÜNDORF. Die Entwicklungstendenzen in der deutschen Sprache des 20. Jhs. Opava: Ústav cizích jazyků Filozoficko-přírodovědecké fakulty Slezské univerzity, 1998, 142 s. ISBN 8072480073. info
    recommended literature
  • STEDJE, Astrid. Deutsche Sprache gestern und heute :Einführung in Sprachgeschichte und Sprachkunde. 5., unveränd. Aufl. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2001, 223 s. ISBN 3-7705-2514-0. info
  • BESCH, Werner. Duzen, Siezen, Titulieren : zur Anrede im Deutschen heute und gestern. Illustrated by Markus Eidt. 2. erg. Aufl. Götingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998, 160 s. ISBN 3525340095. info
  • BRAUN, Peter. Tendenzen in der deutschen Gegenwartssprache :Sprachvarietäten. 3., erw. Aufl. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1993, 265 s. ISBN 3-17-012127-8. info
Teaching methods
lecture, discussion, presentations of seminarthesis and discussion on the results of research
Assessment methods
Credits are assigned for handing in a paper dealing with one of the questions (viz. IS) related to the topics of the class.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: konzultace.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, 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 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022.
  • Enrolment Statistics (autumn 2020, recent)
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