UzNJII3238 Trends in Contemporary German

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Iva Zündorf, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Iva Kratochvílová
Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 18:20–19:55 G23
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
The lecture is designed as an introduction to a series of topics concerning tendencies and trends in contemporary German language. In so doing, the focus will be on the current development in pronounciation, grammatical forms (morphology), syntax, vocabulary. etc. The goal of the course will be to acquire the linguistic tools needed to study especially the recent history of German. The texts which will be discussed will include authentic examples of contemporary German, their analysis will deepen and extend the knowledge and understanding of contemporary language. The texts are read/viewed and worksheets completed before the seminars. Seminars incorporate student presentations and discussions of the themes, the characterisations of the texts in relation to the social and cultural enviroment as well as to the type of the text. The texts are read/viewed and worksheets completed before the seminars
Syllabus
  • Tendencies of language change; situation in the second half of the 20. century; pronounciation; morphological reduction and periphrastic forms; syntactic changes; lexical changes; pragmatic aspect of tendencies; new orthographic conventions;standard and normativity;
Literature
  • Polenz, P.: Deutsche Sprachgeschichte, Bd.III, 19. und 20.Jh. Berlin: de Gruyter 1999.
  • Glück, H./Sauer, W.-W.: Gegenwartsdeutsch. Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 1997
  • Braun, P.: Tendenzen in der deutschen Gegenwartssprache. Stuttgart/Berlin: Braun, 1987
  • Masařík, Z./Kratochvílová, I.: Die Entwicklungstendenzen in der deutschen Sprache des 20. Jhs., Opava: Slezská univerzita v Opavě, 1998
  • Eichhoff-Cyrus, K.M., Hober, R. (Hrsg.): Die deutsche Sprache zur Jahrtausendwende –
Assessment methods
The texts are read/viewed and worksheets completed before the seminars. Seminars incorporate student presentations and discussions of the themes, the characterisations of the texts in relation to the social and cultural enviroment as well as to the type of the text. The texts are read/viewed and worksheets completed before the seminars. The course is concluded with an examination
Language of instruction
German
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