AJ32050 Selected Topics in Functional Syntax

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Jana Chamonikolasová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Michaela Hrazdílková
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 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course presents the theory of functional sentence perspective (FSP) developed by Jan Firbas and outlines alternative approaches to the information structure of language. The focus of the course is the analysis of a sentence as a field of distribution of communicative dynamism. The theme-rheme structure is examined in parallel English and Czech text. Assessment is based on the quality of the final assignment, i.e. an interpretation of a text from the point of view of FSP.
Syllabus
  • The course presents the theory of functional sentence perspective (FSP) developed by Jan Firbas and outlines alternative approaches to the information structure of language. The focus of the course is the analysis of a sentence as a field of distribution of communicative dynamism. The theme-rheme structure is examined in parallel English and Czech text. Assessment is based on the quality of the final assignment, i.e. an interpretation of a text from the point of view of FSP.
Literature
  • FIRBAS, Jan. Functional sentence perspective in written and spoken communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, xv, 239. ISBN 0521373085. info
  • SGALL, Petr, Jarmila PANEVOVÁ and Eva HAJIČOVÁ. The meaning of the sentence in its semantic and pragmatic aspects. Vyd. 1. Prague: Academia, 1986, ix, 353. 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
  • Jazyk a text :výbor z lingvistického díla Františka Daneše. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Filozofická fakulta, 1999, s. 249-471. ISBN 80-85899-70-1. info
  • Jazyk a text :výbor z lingvistického díla Františka Daneše. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Filozofická fakulta, 2000, 304 s. ISBN 80-85899-86-8. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Assessment is based on the quality of the final assignment, i.e. an interpretation of a text from the point of view of FSP.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every other week.
Teacher's information
http://www.phil.muni.cz/elf/course/category.php?id=5
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