PdF:CS2RC_JVCJ Development of Standard Czech - Course Information

CS2RC_JVCJ Development of Standard Czech

Extent and Intensity

0/0/8. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Hana Borovská, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. Hana Borovská, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Ivana Luklová

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

A survey of external history of the Czech language and other civilized languages on our territory (Old Church Slavonic, Latin, and German), the development of characterization and codification of the Czech language, the theory of the literary language. Stylistic differentiation of literary language in the diachronic/historical cross section. Enlargement of vocabulary by means of taking over new expressions, enrichment of the poetical language, the development of special terminology in the course of the development of the Czech language.

Syllabus

• 1 Study of the so-called external history of literary Czech language. 2 Literary languages on our territory before the origins of literature written in the Czech language. Latin and Old Church Slavonic literature The Chronica Bohemorum by Cosmas of Prague, Old Church Slavonic legends and others. 3 Czech in the 12th and 13th centuries. The first legal and literary texts. Graphic realization of the first Czech texts. Difficulties of the primitive orthography. 4 Evolution of Czech in the 14th century. Old Czech manuscripts and their stylistic differentiation. Vocabulary of the Czech language as a reflection of the social situation. Old Czech syntax. 5 Old Czech dictionaries. Klaret and his company. Vocabulary in Klarets dictionaries. Jan Hus and his contribution to the Czech language. 6 The advanced Czech language of the humanistic epoch, its stylistic differentiation. Syntactic characterization of the humanistic manuscripts. 7 Grammar works of the 16th century. The Grammar of Náměšť. Jan Blahoslav. Dictionaries. 8 The period after the battle of White Mountain and the problems of its evaluation. The so-called Baroque Czech, the Baroque literary manuscripts. The Czech grammar books of the 17th and 18th centuries. 9 J. Dobrovský and his linguistic work. Language codifications. J. Jungmann work. 10 Language codification in the period of purification of the 19th century. The so-called Matice Purifications. Creation of period special terminology. 11 The care of the literary language at the end of the 19th century and in the half of the 20th century (J. Gebauer, V. Ertl). The Prague linguistic school and its representatives. 12 Czech studies and their development in the second half of the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st century. The important representatives B. Havránek, A. Jedlička, V. Šmilauer, F. Kopečný, F. Daneš and others.

Literature

• HAVRÁNEK, Bohuslav: Vývoj spisovného jazyka českého. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1979
• Vývoj odborných zájmů o češtinu. Edited by Radoslav Večerka. Vyd. 1. Brno: Univerzita J.E. Purkyně, 1988, 140 s. info
• CUŘÍN, František. Vývoj spisovné češtiny. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1985, 180 s. URL info
• ŠLOSAR, Dušan and Radoslav VEČERKA. Spisovný jazyk v dějinách české společnosti. 2. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1982, 142 pp. info
• U základů pražské jazykovědné školy. Edited by Josef Vachek. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1970, 81 s. URL info

Assessment methods

Consultation. Ending: Colloquium.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Information on completion of the course: Předpokladem pro absolvování předmětu je úspěšné ukončení předmětu CJ2RC_JHMC - Historická mluvnice českého jazyka.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: počet hodin konzultací v semestru.

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