AJL22107 Information Structure of Discourse

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Jana Chamonikolasová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jana Chamonikolasová, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 14:00–15:40 B2.52, except Thu 16. 11.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 8/20, only registered: 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Syllabus
  • The course presents selected theories of the Information Structure of Discourse, among others Chafe’s theory of Information Flow and Activation Cost; Hajičová and Sgall’s theory of Topic-Focus Articulation; Halliday’s Systemic Functional approach; Gundel’s view of Topic and Focus; and Firbas’s theory of Functional Sentence Perspective. The classes will include presentations of the teacher, discussions of discourse interpretations, as well as presentations of selected topics by the students based on recommended sources.
Literature
  • FERY, Caroline, Shinichiro Ishihar. Oxford Handbook of Information Structure, 2018
  • SGALL, Petr, Eva HAJIČOVÁ a Jarmila PANEVOVÁ. The meaning of the sentence in its semantic and pragmatic aspects. 1. vyd. Prague: Academia, 1986.
  • CHAMONIKOLASOVÁ, Jana. Intonation in English and Czech Dialogues. 2nd ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2017, 119 pp. Spisy Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity, sv. 365. ISBN 978-80-210-8501-5. info
  • CHAFE, Wallace L. Discourse, consciousness, and time : the flow and displacement of conscious experience in speaking and writing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994, xiii, 327. ISBN 0226100545. info
  • FIRBAS, Jan. Functional sentence perspective in written and spoken communication (Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 239 pp. ISBN 0-521-37308-5. info
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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