PdF:AJ2RC_FUKS Func. & Com. Syntax - Course Information
AJ2RC_FUKS Functional and Communicative Syntax
Faculty of EducationSpring 2012
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/12. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Martin Adam, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- AJ2RC_FUKS/OS01: Fri 24. 2. 9:30–10:10 učebna 11, Fri 16. 3. 9:30–10:10 učebna 11, Fri 30. 3. 9:30–10:10 učebna 11, Fri 20. 4. 9:30–10:10 učebna 11, Fri 4. 5. 9:30–10:10 učebna 11, Fri 18. 5. 9:30–10:10 učebna 11, M. Adam
- Prerequisites
- Syntax A, Syntax B
- 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
- Studies to Extend Teaching Qualification for Lower Seconday Schools (programme PdF, C-CV, specialization Anglický jazyk a literatura pro základní školy)
- Course objectives
- The course presents the English grammar as a tool which enables users of English to achieve their purposes in cimmunication and tries to help language learners to realise that grammar is used in a different way in spoken and written interaction and is further modified by the context of language use. Having completed the course, the students should be able to view language as a tool of communication in the society and to form texts that are functional.
- Syllabus
- Week 1: Communicative syntax vs. normative syntax. Varieties of English. Week 2: Giving and requesting information. Representing information. Functions of language. Hypothetical Meaning Week 3: Expressing attitude and opinion. Choices in the semantic representation of sentences. Fronting without Inversion Week 4: Expressing feelings and emotions. Linking and grammatical cohesion I+II. Fronting with subject-verb inversion Week 5: Friendly communication and influencing people. REVISION TEST 1. Fronting with subject-operator inversion. Week 6: Linking signals and constructions. Information processing. Topic and focus I. Extraposition of Clausal Subject Week 7: Reference, substitution and omission. Information processing. Topic and focus II Passive Voice Week 8: Presenting and focusing information. Formal and informal language. Extraposition of Clausal Object Week 9: Order and emphasis 1. Fronting. REVISION TEST 2. Postponement and discontinuities Week 10: Order and emphasis 2. Postponement. Polite and familiar language. Cleft Sentences Proper Week 11: Variation according to the status of participants. Personal and impersonal language. Pseudo-cleft sentences Week 12: Variation according to the medium and place. Written and Spoken language. Existential sentences Week 13: Revision. Dialect variation.
- Literature
- required literature
- DONTCHEVA-NAVRATILOVA, Olga. Grammatical Structures in English: Meaning in Context. 2. přepracované vyd. Brno: Nakladatelství Masarykovy univerzity, 2005, 163 pp. ISBN 80-210-2477-1. info
- LEECH, Geoffrey N. and Jan SVARTVIK. A communicative grammar of English. 3rd ed. London: Longman, 2002, xiv, 440. ISBN 9780582506336. info
- Teaching methods
- Teaching methods: classroom discussions, lectures, students' presentations, home assignments, home projects.
- Assessment methods
- 2-period seminar. A written credit test + an oral exam. Teaching methods: classroom discussions, lectures, students' presentations, home assignments, home projects.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually. - Teacher's information
- http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=143
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2012, recent)
- Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/ped/spring2012/AJ2RC_FUKS