OJX206 Language in society

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Marie Krčmová, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Marie Krčmová, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 13:20–14:55 C11
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 10 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/10, only registered: 0/10, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/10
Course objectives
The course deals with the basic terminology of sociolinguistics, with the stratification of Czech, with the phenomenons of urban speech, slang and other relating topics.
Syllabus
  • 1. What is sociolinguistics? 2. Functions of language within a community. 3. Attitudes towards language. 4. Language policy and language planning. 5. Stratification of the Czech language. 6. Language situation. 7. Common Czech (obecná č.) from the viewpoint of sociolinguistics. 8. Common spoken language. 9. Origins of common spoken language in an urban area/in a big city. 10. Language as an indicitor of a social group. Slang from the viewpoint of sociology. Contact of various cultures and its representation in language. 11. Bilingualism and diglossia and their manifestations in specific conditions. 12. Gender and language. Age and language. 13. Language spoken in the city of Brno - specification of the knowledge acquired.
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
Lectures and klass discussion, aplikation on the czech languauge and the languages od Europe and USA. Form of examen - written test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2010, Spring 2011.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2009, recent)
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