CJJ13 Lexicology and Lexicography - Lecture

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024

The course is not taught in Autumn 2024

Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Zdeňka Hladká, Dr. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zdeňka Hladká, Dr.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Silvie Hulewicz, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 90 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/90, only registered: 0/90, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/90
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The series of lectures is focused on position of lexicology in relation to other linguistic disciplines as well as to logic, philosophy and cognitive psychology. The aim is to get the students acquainted with the history and present-day state of exploring words, with the plurality of lexicological theories and to support their ability to develop their own opinions. In correlation with the seminars, the focus is on lexical semantics. Final lectures are devoted to the history of Czech lexicography and - time permitting - to the introduction to onomastics.
Learning outcomes
Having participated in the course, students will get orientated:
- in elementary issues of lexical semantics, being aware of interdisciplinary links in this sphere;
– in the development of Czech lexicology, lexicography and onomastics.

They will be able:
- to use in an erudite way a wide scale of dictionaries of Czech;
- on the basis of their own research (in foreign) scholarly sources to present a selected lexicological topic.
Syllabus
  • The course deals with the following wider topics:
  • 1. History of research about words, traditions of Czech lexicology.
  • 2. Selected theories of meaning in language and their starting points (Aristoteles, Frege, Wittgenstein).
  • 3. Lexical meaning – its inner structure and possibilities of description.
  • 4. Semantic vagueness.
  • 5. Selected topics from cognitive semantics.
  • 6. An outline of the development of Czech lexicography with the focus on explanatory lexicography.
  • 7. Introduction to onomastics.
Literature
  • Nový encyklopedický slovník češtiny. Edited by Petr Karlík - Marek Nekula - Jana Pleskalová. První vydání. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2016, Strana 110. ISBN 9788074224829. info
  • FILIPEC, Josef and František ČERMÁK. Česká lexikologie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1985, 281 s. URL info
  • František Čermák: Lexikon a sémantika. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2010. 357s.
  • Kapitoly z dějin české jazykovědné bohemistiky. Edited by Jana Pleskalová - Marie Krčmová - Radoslav Večerka - Petr Karlík. Vydání první. Praha: Academia, 2007, 683 stran. ISBN 9788020015235. info
  • LYONS, John. Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977, xiv, 897. ISBN 0521215609. info
  • LEECH, Geoffrey. Semantics :the study of meaning. 2nd ed. London: Penguin Books, 1981, xii, 383 s. ISBN 0-14-013487-5. info
  • Filozofia prirodzeného jazyka :štúdie, prednášky, eseje. Edited by Marianna Oravcová. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Archa, 1992, 264 s. ISBN 80-7115-044-4. info
  • Frege, Gottlob. Funktion, Begriff, Bedeutung. Funf logische Studien. Gottingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1966.
  • WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Filosofická zkoumání. Vyd. 1. Praha: Filosofický ústav AV ČR, 1993, 294 s. ISBN 80-7007-040-4. info
  • LAKOFF, George and Mark JOHNSON. Metafory, kterými žijeme. Vyd. 1. Brno: Host, 2002, 280 s. ISBN 80-7294-071-6. info
  • AITCHISON, Jean. The articulate mammal : an introduction to psycholinguistics [Aitchison, 1998]. 4. vyd. Londýn: Routledge, 1998, ix, 308 s. ISBN 0-415-16866-X. info
  • VAŇKOVÁ, Irena, Iva NEBESKÁ, Lucie SAICOVÁ ŘÍMALOVÁ and Jasňa PACOVSKÁ. Co na srdci, to na jazyku : kapitoly z kognitivní lingvistiky. Vydání první. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2005, 343 stran. ISBN 8024609193. info
  • BARTMIŃSKI, Jerzy. Jazyk v kontextu kultury : dvanáct statí z lublinské kognitivní etnolingvistiky. Edited by Irena Vaňková. První české vydání. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2016, 168 stran. ISBN 9788024628837. URL info
  • Manuál lexikografie. Edited by František Čermák - Renata Blatná. 1. vyd. Jinočany: H & H, 1995, 283 s. ISBN 80-85787-23-7. info
  • ŠRÁMEK, Rudolf. Úvod do obecné onomastiky. 1. vyd. V Brně: Masarykova univerzita, 1999, 191 s. ISBN 802102027X. info
Teaching methods
The course consists of lectures, in addition to which students work on a selected topic from foreign sources and may present their contribution during the final lecture.
Assessment methods
The course is completed by an oral or written colloquium testing the knowledge of presented topics. The condition for participation in the colloquium is a written treatment of a selected lexicological issue on the basis of (foreign) scholarly sources.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
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