PdF:CJp518 Basics of Dialect. - Course Information

CJp518 Basics of Dialectology

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Hana Svobodová, Dr. phil. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. Hana Svobodová, Dr. phil.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Petra Rozbořilová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education

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 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display

Course objectives

The students learn about the dialect as a appearance of language, about origin of the dialects and about development of them. Students acquire criteria of the classification of Czech dialects at present, too. The relationships among dialects, history of language and development of language are explained, too, including consequences for the cultivation of language and speaking. It is pressupposed the students will be able:
1. to make sense of the language with regard to his territorial distribution and to his delimit utility;
2. to classify vernacular phenomena of the speech as a part of some dialect (group of dialects);
3. to use acquaintance of dialects in the grammar and vocabulary teaching, especially explaining of development of vocabulary;
4. to understand better the orthographical mistakes, spelling errors or some other mistakes due tu vernacular phenomena.

Learning outcomes

After finishing the course, the student will: - have knowledge of the system of national language formations, in the relation of standard – dialect, and of academic terminology (in school textbooks often incorrect); - be able to explain the development, functioning and dialectical changes, and in basic features to describe individual geographical dialects and some slangs of the Czech language.

Syllabus

• 1 Structural and non-structural forms of language; analysis of their mutual relationship.
• 2 Definition of a dialect, terminology of dialectology; literature on dialectology.
• 3 Causes of formation of dialects; geographical and social dialects. Problems of disappearance of dialects. Wage-levelling of dialects.
• 4 Formation of boundaries of dialects(isoglosses), changes of the boundaries.
• 5 Research technique of dialectology; recording of vernacular texts; creating of maps of dialects.
• 6 Intention of dialectology; dialectology and teaching training in Czech language. Analyse of mistakes in written texts of the pupils with respect to their dialectological origin.

Literature

required literature
• BALHAR, Jan and Pavel JANČÁK. Český jazykový atlas. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1997, 507 s. ISBN 8020000135. info
• BALHAR, Jan and Pavel JANČÁK. Český jazykový atlas. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1992, 427 s. ISBN 8020000143. info
• BĚLIČ, Jaromír. Nástin české dialektologie. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1972, 463 s. info

recommended literature
• TATZREITER, Herbert, HORNUNG, Maria und Peter ERNST. Erträge der Dialektologie und Lexikographie. Wien: Edition Praesens. 1999. ISBN 3706900343.
• BELL, Allan. The guidebook to sociolinguistics. First published. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2014, xviii, 367. ISBN 9780631228660. info
• CHAMBERS, J. K. and Peter TRUDGILL. Dialectology. 2nd ed. Cambridge .: Cambridge University Press, 1998, xiv, 201. ISBN 9780521596466. info

Teaching methods

- reading, lecture;
- visual presentations and sound recording of the dialect speech;
- analysis of the sound recording of the dialects;
- analysis of the transcripts of the dialect speech;
- study hours.

Assessment methods

Lecture Ending: Credit Credit requirements: Analysis of the vernacular texts (characteristics, vernacular vocabulary, word-formation in dialects) - presentation
or
Patavinitis (dialects) in belles-lettres and media - paper

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.

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