CJc303 Textual Syntax 1

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
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
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)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
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 2023.
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