SIJ021 Geneva School and the Société Genevoise de Linguistique

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2017
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Bc. Ondřej Šefčík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
Il faut savoir lire français.
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
Course objectives
"Cours de linguistique générale" was not written by Ferdinand de Saussure, Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye were not Saussure's students. The Geneva School of linguistics is a particular set of texts, which are presented and read.
Syllabus
  • 1) Michel Bréal and his programme of historic-evolutive semantics 2) Saussure's "Mémoire", the beginning of structural phonology 3) Published works by FdS and pieces of information on his "hidden teaching" 4) "Écrits" vs. "Cours" de linguistique générale" 5) Charles Bally: scientific programme 6) Albert Sechehaye: scientific programme 7) Serge Karcevski and Louis Hjelmslev: followers 8) Continuity of FdS's Indo-European linguistics outside Geneva: Antoine Meillet, Joseph Vendryes, Émile Benveniste 9) Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure
Literature
  • SAUSSURE, Ferdinand de. Kurs obecné lingvistiky. Edited by Albert Sechehaye - Charles Bally - Tullio De Mauro, Translated by Fran. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1989, 467 s. ISBN 8020700706. info
  • DE SAUSSURE, Ferdinand. Cours de la linguistique générale. Paris: Payothèque, 1972. ISBN 2-228-88942-3. info
  • BENVENISTE, Émile. Dvanáct esejů o jazyce. Translated by Miroslav Pravda - Jan Šabršula. Vyd. 1. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1970, 227 s. URL info
  • MEILLET, Antoine. Introduction a l'étude comparative des langues indo-européennes. 7. éd. ref. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1934, xiv, 514. info
  • Les langues du monde. Edited by A. (Antoine) Meillet - Marcel Samuel Raphaël Cohen. Paris: É. Champion, 1924, xvi, 811 p. info
  • BRÉAL, Michel. Essai de sémantique. Science des significations. Paris, 1897. info
Assessment methods
written exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every week.
Credit evaluation note: Kreditovou charakteristiku pro konkrétní obor doktorského studia určí příslušný ústav.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2018, Spring 2019, Autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2025.
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