RSn065 Russia and Russian Language at the Turn of the Centuries

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
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
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the current phenomena and innovational tendencies in 21st-century Russian language against the background of the language of previous Soviet epoch of Russian society development and in comparison to it.
The lectures are focused on capturing the most important system changes and shifts in spheres of contemporary Russian pronunciation, orthography, grammar, vocabulary, phraseology, stylistics and word-forming in connection to extra-lingual processes of transformational and post-transformational period of contemporary Russian society development.
Working on seminars is based on language analysis of current Russian journal texts in which students will acquire the skill of identification and interpretation of current and progressive language phenomena in contemporary Russian.
Learning outcomes
After finishing the course, the student will be able:
- to look at contemporary Russian as at the dynamic language system that is developing in the connection with social experience;
- to explain the main language phenomena and developmental tendencies in the Russian language of transformational and post-transformational period from the point of view of the modern Russian society development at the turn of 20th and 21st century;
- to distinguish incoming, fashion and period stylistically marked language phenomena from normative means of language and to identify them and correctly interpret in current media texts.
Syllabus
  • 1. Contemporary Russian as the language of the post-transformation period
  • 2. Changes in pronunciation and spelling
  • 3. Active processes in Russian morphology
  • 4. Active processes in Russian syntax
  • 5. Semantic processes in vocabulary
  • 6. Lexical borrowing and internationalization of Russian vocabulary
  • 7. New Russian phraseology and idiomatics
  • 8. Stylistic changes in vocabulary
  • 9. Non-literary vocabulary in the language of contemporary Russian journalism
  • 10. Active processes in word formation
Literature
    required literature
  • VALGINA, Nina Sergejevna. Aktivnyje processy v sovremennom russkom jazyke. Moskva: Logos, 2003, 302 s. ISBN 5940100929. info
    recommended literature
  • STĚPANOVA, L..: Sovremennyj russkij jazyk: prazdnik verbaľnoj svobody. Současný ruský jazyk: triumf verbální svobody. Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Filozofická fakulta, Olomouc 2011, 90 s. ISBN 978-80-244-2953-3
  • LJUBEZNOVA, N.V. Aktivnyje processy v sovremennom russkom jazyke. Saratov 2010
  • GAZDA, Jiří and Ivo POSPÍŠIL. Proměny jazyka a literatury v současných ruských textech (The Modifications of Language and Literature in Contemporary Russian Texts). Vydání 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2007, 146 pp. Spisy Filozofické fakulty MU č. 367. ISBN 978-80-210-4426-5. info
  • GAZDA, Jiří. Dynamika a internacionalizace slovní zásoby současné ruštiny (The Dynamics and Internationalisation of Vocabulary of Contemporary Russian.). 1st ed. Brno: MU v Brně, 2002, 121 pp. 3510-17/99. ISBN 80-210-2780-0. info
  • ZEMSKAJA, Je. A. Russkij jazyk konca XX stoletija (1985-1995). První. Moskva: Jazyki russkoj kultury, 1996, 480 pp. ISBN 5-7859-0001-7. info
  • FERM, Ljudmila. Osobennosti razvitija russkoj leksiki v novejšij period (na materiale gazet). Uppsala: Uppsala University, 1994, 236 s. ISBN 9155433405. info
Teaching methods
The course has a form of a lecture and a class discussion. Direct tuition is supported by an e-course with the continuous fulfilment of written assignments on each discussed topic.
Assessment methods
Continuous checking of tasks in the e-course. Exam: written test.
Language of instruction
Russian
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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