CJBB81 Modern Czech Lexicology

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 2 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: Jaroslava Vybíralová
Timetable
Tue 12:30–13:15 zruseno C21
Prerequisites (in Czech)
CJA014 ModCz Lexicology || NOW( CJA014 ModCz Lexicology )
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 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 – on the structure of lexical meaning, possibilities of its description, cognitive aspects of semantics etc. Final lectures are devoted to the history of Czech lexicography and - time permitting - to the introduction to onomastics.
Syllabus
  • The course deals with the following wider topics:
  • 1) History of research about words, various approaches, traditions of Czech lexicology
  • 2) Selected theories of meaning in language and their extra-linguistic starting points (Aristoteles, Frege, Wittgenstein).
  • 3) Lexical meaning – its inner structure and possibilities of description
  • 4) Semantic vagueness
  • 5) Selected topics from cognitive linguistics (theory of prototypes, metaphors in thinking and in language).
  • 6) An outline of the development of Czech lexicography with the focus on explanatory lexicography.
  • 7) Introduction to onomastics
Literature
  • FILIPEC, Josef and František ČERMÁK. Česká lexikologie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1985, 281 s. URL 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
  • Ř Kapitoly z dějin české jazykovědné bohemistiky. Praha: Academia, 2007. ISBN 978-80-200-1523-5. info
Assessment methods
Lecture; colloquium. For further information, see the Czech version of the course.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2010.
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