SZ6058 Introduction into Language Culture and Rhetoric

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
PhDr. JUDr. Dagmar Sochorová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Hana Křížová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. JUDr. Dagmar Sochorová, 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 also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
At the end of the rhetoric course, the students will know the tools how to improve the abilities of a cultivated written and spoken Czech speech and will be able to defend his/her opinion against opponents, to build up arguments and detect a manipulation.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student will be able to: create a data presentation without errors; distinguish verbal, paraverbal and nonverbal means of communication; to articulate and to build up arguments.
Syllabus
  • 1. Fundamental presupposition of cultivated using language. Literary and nonliterary speech in the communication. 2. Requirements of the cultivated speech. Language correctness, norms, codification. Handbook of codification and their using. Contemporary literature on the Czech language. 3. Correctness in the grammar and orthography. Correct pronunciation. 4. Some mistakes and dissimilarities in using language, problems in the phonology, morphology and syntax. Communicative training. 5. Development of the vocabulary. Languages in the contact, foreign words as a result of the language contact. 6. Stylistic differences in the language communication, tendency to the economy in the language communication. 7. Rhetoric, the functional style of the rhetorical texts. Lexical and grammatical plan in the rhetorical texts, the phonetic means of the rhetorical texts. 8. Verbal and non-verbal communication. Requirements of the communicative practise depending on the speech cultivation.
Literature
  • HÁJKOVÁ, Eva. Rétorika pro pedagogy : základy řečových technik, verbální a neverbální komunikace, jaké jazykové prostředky zvolit, jak zvládnout interpretaci textu. Vyd. 1. Praha: Grada, 2011, 208 s. ISBN 9788024719900. URL info
  • ŠPAČKOVÁ, Alena. Moderní rétorika : jak mluvit k druhým lidem, aby nám naslouchali a rozuměli. 3., doplněné vydání. Praha: Grada, 2009, 141 stran. ISBN 9788024729657. URL info
  • MINÁŘOVÁ, Eva, Marie KRČMOVÁ, Jan CHLOUPEK and Marie ČECHOVÁ. Současná česká stylistika (Stylistics of the Contemporary Czech Language). 1st ed. Praha: ISV nakladatelství, 2003, 342 pp. none. ISBN 80-86642-00-3. info
  • LOTKO, Edvard. Kapitoly ze současné rétoriky. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1999, 166 s. ISBN 807067685X. info
  • LANGER, Antonín. Úspěch veřejné promluvy : kapitoly z rétoriky. 1. vyd. Praha: Fortuna, 1993, 103 s. ISBN 807168063X. info
Teaching methods
Active participation of students in the seminar, creation and presentation of presentations, rhetorical exercises.
Assessment methods
Completion of the course: credit. Detailed requirements are available in each term in Study Materials of the course in the Information System MU, the folder Learning Materials.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Předmět bude realizován při minimálním počtu 5 zapsaných studentů.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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