OJ206 Language in society

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Aleš Bičan, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Marie Krčmová, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Fri 9:10–10:45 M24
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 35 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/35, only registered: 0/35
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course will introduce students to basic problems of sociolinguistics as a discipline dealing with the interaction of language and society. At its end they will be able to describe and to supplement them with their own experience. They will be able to re-apply the basic principles on other languages. They will be able to operate with the terminology of the field and to formulate and evaluate problems concerning language of towns, slangs and other phenomena reflecting social structures in languages.
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 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.
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
Teaching methods
a series of lecture, reading
Assessment methods
written exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms 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, Spring 2021.
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