OJ315 Technical functional style, its stylistic norms

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Marie Krčmová, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Marie Krčmová, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Lucie Čelková
Timetable
Thu 10:00–11:35 C32
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 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The seminar is intended in particular for students working out their qualification works. It teaches them techniques of philological work and norms of scientific communication in written and spoken forms and with regard to norms of discourse community of philological sciences. At the end of the course students will be able to lay out the topic of their work including the scope of the topic, its length and the time schedule according to the type of scientific communication they are preparing (seminar presentation, conference paper, minor and major theses). In addition to that, they will be given concrete tasks on which they will learn how to search for and work with primary literature of the field corresponding to the type and contents of their work, and how to evaluate its relevancy for their topic. They will also learn how to analyze the language material with the help of all their knowledge acquired so far and how to find by themselves where they need additional information. After finishing the course, they will be able to support their knowledge and competent opinions with well founded arguments and to evaluate other people’s presentations from the point of view of the content and adequacy and the way of exemplification as well as from the formal perspective.
Syllabus
  • Text - utterance - discourse Scholarly texts - non-fictional texts - fiction Scholarly text - choice of topic and its specification Treatment of the topic - influence of models of scholarly communication in the particular period and field Treatment of the topic with regard to the addressee, text as a discourse Sources, scholarly sources and rules for using them, quotations; other sources Work with sources - notes, excerpts and their applications Work with a linguistic material, its presentation, choice of examples Choice of genres, transpositions of a text from one genre to another Organisation and stylization of a text Corrections in a text, changes in somebody else's text Preparing a spoken scholarly text Dispute as a genre, rules of scholarly disputes The seminar includes explanations, discussion on concepts dealt with and individual work with texts, especially analysis of their features and re-writing texts deviating from the norms of scholarly communication. Students receive their credits on the basis of an active participation in the course. The seminar cannot be completed in any other form.
Literature
  • ŠANDEROVÁ, Jadwiga. Jak číst a psát odborný text ve společenských vědách. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2009, 209 pp. Studijní texty, 34. svazek. ISBN 978-80-86429-40-3. info
  • MEŠKO, Dušan, Dušan KATUŠČÁK and Ján FINDRA. Akademická příručka. České, upr. vyd. Martin: Osveta, 2006, 481 s. ISBN 8080632197. info
  • ČMEJRKOVÁ, Světla, František DANEŠ and Jindra SVĚTLÁ. Jak napsat odborný text. Vydání první. Praha: Leda, 1999, 255 stran. ISBN 8085927691. info
  • ŠESTÁK, Zdeněk. Jak psát a přednášet o vědě. Illustrated by Hana Kymrová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1999, 204 s. ISBN 8020007555. info
  • ECO, Umberto and Ivan SEIDL. Jak napsat diplomovou práci. Olomouc: Votobia, 1997, 271 s. ISBN 80-7198-173-7. info
  • HOFFMANOVÁ, Jana. Stylistika a-- :současná situace stylistiky. 1. vyd. Praha: Trizonia, 1997, 200 s. ISBN 80-85573-67-9. info
  • JELÍNEK, Milan. Stylistika. In: Zdenka Rusínová: Specifičnost bohemistiky jakožto lingvistiky mateřského jazyka. Sborník Univerzity na prahu nového tisíciletí I. (Stylistics. In: Z. Rusínová: The Specifics of Bohemistics in Terms of Linguistics in Our Mother Tongue.). Brno: Vydavatelství Masarykovy univerzity, 1996. ISBN 80-210-1266-8. info
  • Writing vs speaking :language, text, discourse, communication : proceedings of the conference held at the Czech Language Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, October 14-16, 1992. Edited by Světla Čmejrková - František Daneš - Eva Havlová. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1994, 413 s. ISBN 3-8233-5057-9. info
Teaching methods
The seminar includes explanations, class discussion on concepts dealt with and individual work with texts, homeworks, especially analysis of their features and re-writing texts deviating from the norms of scholarly communication.
Assessment methods
The course requires active class participation; 75% attendance is compulsory. Final assessment is based on class participation, submitted outline of a session (by teacher’s approval), and participation in tasks during the semester. More details and study materials can be found in IS, section Student-Resources. The file is accessible to course participants only.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2011.
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