CJc303 Textual Syntax 1

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Ivana Kolářová, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Milena Šubrtová, Ph.D.
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
CJc303/01: Fri 27. 10. 8:00–10:50 učebna 6, Fri 1. 12. 8:00–10:50 učebna 12, Fri 15. 12. 8:00–10:50 učebna 4, 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
There is presupposed knowledge of the linguistic disciplines that deal with contemporary language - syntax, stylistics and language analysis of the texts. The students acquire the theoretical information about text linguistics (terminology of the text and textual structure, composition, language means of the textual coherence - reference, conective words).
Learning outcomes
There is presupposed the student shall be able in the end of the semester:
- to make that analysis of the textual structure;
- to describe the language means of the textual coherence;
- to choose theme of the written work - complex textual analysis.
Syllabus
  • 1. Terminology of the text linguistic. Text - talk; sentence - utterance. Monologue, dialogue. Spoken and written tests. Communication and communicative situation/discourse.
  • 2. Text and code. Types of codes. Lingual- and non-lingual code. Intertextuality.
  • 3. The coherence of the texts, language means of the textual coherence. Connective words - connectors. Types of the connectors from structural point of view (words, compound connectors...). Connectors and word cathegories (particles, conjunctions...). The textual function of the connectors.
  • 4. Coreference and alteration. Language means of those relationships.
  • 5.Other semantic relationships in the text.
  • 6. Grammar and the text coherence (grammatical congruence and coherence, syntactical relations and coherence).
  • 7. Connection of the textual units in the texts and connection of the textual units and texts with the discourse. Language means of the contact, their function.
Literature
  • ŠTÍCHA, František a kol. Akademická gramatika spisovné češtiny. 1st ed. Praha: Academia, 2013, 974 pp. ISBN 978-80-200-2205-9. info
  • HOFFMANNOVÁ, Jana, Světla ČMEJRKOVÁ, Martin HAVLÍK, Olga MÜLLEROVÁ and Jiří ZEMAN. Styl mediálních dialogů. 1st ed. Praha: Academia, 2013, 314 pp. ISBN 978-80-200-2267-7. info
  • KOLÁŘOVÁ, Ivana and Jana HOFFMANNOVÁ. Kombinatorika temporálních konektorů (Combinatory analysis of temporal connectors). In Kapitoly z české gramatiky. 1st ed. Praha: Academia, 2011, p. 1081-1120. Lingvistika. ISBN 978-80-200-1845-8. info
  • KOLÁŘOVÁ, Ivana. Základní jevy koreference (Introduction to the coreference). In Kapitoly z české gramatiky. 1st ed. Praha: Academia, 2011, p. 979-1000. Lingvistika. ISBN 978-80-200-1845-8. info
  • KARLÍK, Petr, Marek NEKULA and Zdenka RUSÍNOVÁ. Příruční mluvnice češtiny. [Brno]: Masarykova univerzita. Středisko pro pomoc studentům se specifickými nároky, 2001, 1 online. URL info
  • GREPL, Miroslav and Petr KARLÍK. Skladba češtiny. Olomouc: Votobia, 1998, 503 s. ISBN 80-7198-281-4. info
  • HRBÁČEK, Josef. Nárys textové syntaxe spisovné češtiny. 1. vyd. Praha: Trizonia, 1994, 134 s. ISBN 80-85573-51-2. info
  • Mluvnice češtiny. 3, Skladba. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1987, 746 s. info
Teaching methods
- Lecture, reading connected with the presentation of some written texts - explanation of the phenomena of textual syntax
- Individual studying hours
Assessment methods
The programm of the course is based on tutorial.
Ending: Credit
Credit requirements:
Thema of the work - an essay that should be long 4 or more pages and that has to be handed in at the end of the spring term. Abstract retrieval.
The treatise can be based on:
a)complex analysis of some texts;
b)analysis of some textual phenomena in some text/texts (connectives, language means of reference, functional sentence perspective in texts; deictic words in texts...);
c)structuring of some texts;
d)syntax of spoken texts;
e)intratextual relationships (relationships among various texts);
f)literary and non-literary language in texts;
g)sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics and communication.
Students can suggest another theme.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 9 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2024.
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