OJ206 Language in society

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2002
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 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
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course of lectures is concerned with the relationship between a language and the community of its users, the funktion of language in the society, the position of standard language in various types of cuminity, the question of bilingualism and with other topics. General knowledge is ilustrated by Czech and slawonic facts.
Syllabus
  • l. Whats is sociolinguistics? 2. Functions of language in the society. 3. Attitudes to languages. 4. language policy and language planing. 5. Stratification of the Czech language. 6. Language situation. 7. Common czech from the viewpoint of sociolinguistic. 8. Autentic spoken language. 9. Formation of autentic spoken language a big city. 10. Language as an indicator od social group. Slang from the viewpoint of sociolinguistic. 11. Cultures in contact and the reflections of this process in langue. Bilingualism and diglosia and theier manifestations under specific circumstates. 12. Gander and language. Age and language. 13. The language of Brno; specification of the information.
Literature
  • Varieties of Czech. Ed. E. Eckert. Amsterdam/Atlanta, 1993.
  • HUBÁČEK, Jaroslav. O českých slanzích. Vyd. 2., dopl. a přeprac. Ostrava: Profil, 1981, 214 s. URL info
  • JEDLIČKA, Alois. Spisovný jazyk v současné komunikaci. Praha: Universita Karlova, 1974, 227 s. info
  • KOŘENSKÝ, Jan. Komunikace a čeština. 1. vyd. Jinočany: H a H, 1992, 89 s. ISBN 80-85467-92-5. info
  • MÜLLEROVÁ, Olga, Jana HOFFMANNOVÁ and Eva SCHNEIDEROVÁ. Mluvená čeština v autentických textech. Vyd. 1. Jinočany: H & H, 1992, 236 s. ISBN 80-85467-96-8. info
  • Reader of Czech Sociolingvistics. Academia 1986.
  • ŠVEJCER, Aleksandr Davidovič and Leonid Borisovič NIKOL'SKIJ. Úvod do sociolingvistiky. Translated by Jiří Kraus. Vyd. 1. Praha: Svoboda, 1983, 241 s. URL info
  • SGALL, Petr and Jiří HRONEK. Čeština bez příkras. Vyd. 1. Praha: H & H, 1992, 181 s. ISBN 80-85467-29-1. info
  • HELBIG, Gerhard. Vývoj jazykovědy po roce 1970. Translated by Jiří Nekvapil - Jana Holšánková. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1991, 303 s. ISBN 80-200-0312-6. info
  • SGALL, Petr. Variation in language : code switching in Czech as a challenge for sociolinguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1992, xii, 368 s. ISBN 90-272-1548-0. info
  • TOWNSEND, CH.E.: A Deskription of Spoken Praque Czech. Ohio 1990.
  • HORECKÝ, Ján. Spoločnosť a jazyk. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Veda, 1982, 106 s. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Požadavky k závěrečnému kolokviu budou upřesněny během semestru.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2001, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021.
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