CJA014 Modern Czech Lexicology

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Zdeňka Hladká, Dr. (lecturer)
Mgr. Lucie Velebová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zdeňka Hladká, Dr.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jaroslava Vybíralová
Timetable of Seminar Groups
CJA014/A: Mon 9:10–10:45 zruseno C21, Z. Hladká
CJA014/B: Mon 10:50–12:25 C11, Z. Hladká
CJA014/C: Tue 9:10–10:45 C43, Z. Hladká
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 104 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/104, only registered: 0/104, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/104
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course is an introduction to lexicology, dealing also with elementary methodology and terminology. Attention is paid to the delimitation of lexical units, their form, meaning and usage, to the structure of the lexicon and tendencies in its development. From the viewpoint of methodology, both semasiological and onomatological approaches are introduced. Lexical semantics is stressed, detailed information about lexical onomatology is offered in another course on word-formation. Traditions and present-day state of Czech lexicography is also dealt with in the seminar. The aim of the course is to provider students (following the lecture - CJBB81) an overview of information about knowledge gathered by |Czech and foreign lexicology-orientated linguistics, to teach them basic skills in lexical analysis and in effective using of dictionaries.
Syllabus
  • The course deals with several wider topics:
  • 1. Lexicology, its stratification and position within other linguistic disciplines
  • 2. A lexical unit and its delimitation
  • 3. Investigating lexicon: elementary methodology, onomatology and semasiology
  • 4. Autosemantic and synsemantic parts of speech
  • 5. Parasystem of proper nouns
  • 6. Paradigmatic semantic relations structuring the lexicon (synonymy, oppositeness, hyperonymy - hyponymy).
  • 7. Syntagmatic semantic relations
  • 8. Polysemantic units and homonymy
  • 9. Tendencies of development ion Czech vocabulary
  • 10. Lexicography and its development in the Czech context, an overview of various kinds of Czech dictionaries and their use in practice
Literature
  • FILIPEC, Josef and František ČERMÁK. Česká lexikologie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1985, 281 s. URL info
  • ČEJKA, Mirek. Česká lexikologie a lexikografie. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1992, 53 s. ISBN 8021003936. info
  • Manuál lexikografie. Edited by František Čermák - Renata Blatná. 1. vyd. Jinočany: H & H, 1995, 283 s. ISBN 80-85787-23-7. info
  • LYONS, John. Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977, xiv, 897. ISBN 0521215609. info
  • LEECH, Geoffrey Neil. Semantics :the study of meaning. 2nd ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1981, xii, 383 s. ISBN 0-14-021694-4. info
  • NĚMEC, Igor. Vývojové postupy české slovní zásoby. Praha: Academia, 1968, 192 s. info
  • MARTINCOVÁ, Olga. Neologizmy v dnešní češtině. Praha: ÚJČ AV ČR, 2005, 248 s. ISBN 808649621X. info
  • Příruční mluvnice češtiny. Edited by Miroslav Grepl - Petr Karlík - Marek Nekula - Zdenka Rusínová. Vyd. 2., opr. Praha: Lidové noviny, 1996, 799 s. ISBN 8071061344. info
  • František Čermák: Lexikon a sémantika. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2010. 357s.
Teaching methods
The course consists of seminars during which students learn to carry out a lexical analysis of texts, to use secondary sources of information and to work with various kinds of dictionaries of Czech. A part of their seminar assignment relates to theory and practice of lexicographical work.
Assessment methods
Seminar; exam. For further information, see the Czech version of the course.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020.
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