OJ206 Language and societyy

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2014
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Aleš Bičan, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Tomáš Hoskovec, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 9:10–10:45 zruseno C21
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 12 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course will explicate basic concepts of sociolinguistics and related disciplines dealing with relations between language and society. The concepts will be demostrated on many languages from the whole world, but questions of Czech sociolinguistics will be considered, too. The goal of the course is to learn students to orientate in sociolinguistic problems, but above all to make them realize that language is not a homogenous system, but rather a heterogenous collection of communicative means the form and evaluation of which are influenced by many social, historical, cultural and political factors.
Syllabus
  • 1. Sociolinguistics and relations between language and society
  • 2. Variety, language vs. dialect
  • 3. Stratification of language, dialect situation in the Czech Republic, sociolect, slang, argot
  • 4. Diglossia, bilingualism, code switching
  • 5. Pidgins and creols
  • 6. Language and culture, language and thought, Sapir-Whort hypothesis
  • 7. Language and sex, sexism, language taboo
  • 8. Language planning, language policy
  • 9. Ekolinguistics, ecology of languages
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
lectures, individual reading
Assessment methods
Written examination consisting of 3-4 questions focusing on the explanation of basic notions of the discipline and on the explanation of sociolinguistic problems
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
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 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021.
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