CJp007 Current Issues of Language Correctness

Faculty of Education
autumn 2020
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Lollok, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Lollok, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
CJp007/01: Thu 10:00–10:50 učebna 64, M. Lollok
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
Students are able to evaluate the current concept of linguistic correctness. They are able to comprehensively explain the concepts of standard and non-standard (colloquial) Czech. They are able to distinguish problematic spelling and grammar phenomena and to suggest the best solution within a particular text. Students understand the difference between the language standard and codification. They are able to use codification handbooks effectively and perform proofreading text.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student will be able to: - define the cultivated form of the national language in both spoken and written form. - explain the positions of specific language phenomena in the language system. - discover deficiencies in the spelling and grammar of texts. - explain the concept of linguistic correctness in spelling, morphology and in other linguistic levels, and to evaluate some of the often-discussed phenomena as linguistically correct or incorrect. - perform proofreading.
Syllabus
  • 1. Language, the language system. 2. Language levels, linguistic disciplines. 3. The problem of standard and non-standard (colloquial) Czech (formality and informality). Linguistic correctness. 4. Language standard, codification. Codification handbooks and work with them. Changes in the codification of the past and today. 5.-6. The graphic aspects of language. Czech spelling. Spelling and linguistic correctness. 7.-8. Morphological aspects of texts. Linguistic correctness in morphology. 9. Most common deviations from the language correctness in contemporary written texts. The most common mistakes in public written texts. Possible causes of language variations. 10. Most frequent deviations from the language correctness in pupil and student work, their causes. Options to eliminate them. 11.-12. Lexical spelling and proofreading.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • CVRČEK, Václav. Mluvnice současné češtiny. Vydání druhé. V Praze: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2015, 416 stran. ISBN 9788024628127. URL info
  • Pravidla českého pravopisu : s Dodatkem Ministerstva školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy České republiky. Edited by Zdeněk Hlavsa. Vyd. 1. (s Dodatkem Minister. Praha: Academia, 1998, 391 s. ISBN 8020004750. info
  • DANEŠ, František. Český jazyk na přelomu tisíciletí. Vydání 1. Praha: Academia, 1997, 292 stran. ISBN 8020006176. info
  • Spisovnost a nespisovnost dnes : sborník příspěvků z mezinárodní konference Spisovnost a nespisovnost v současné jazykové a literární komunikaci, Šlapanice u Brna 17.-19. ledna 1995. Edited by Rudolf Šrámek. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 1996, 261 s. ISBN 8021013044. info
  • Příruční mluvnice češtiny. Edited by Petr Karlík - Marek Nekula - Zdenka Rusínová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Lidové noviny, 1995, 800 s. ISBN 8071061344. info
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  • CVRČEK, Václav. Teorie jazykové kultury po roce 1945. Vydání I. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2006, 123 stran. ISBN 8024610442. info
  • KALANDRA, František, Karla ONDRÁŠKOVÁ and Helena STRAKOVÁ. Pravopis nejen pro školu. Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2004, 182 s. ISBN 8021035676. info
  • HAUSER, Přemysl, Helena KNESELOVÁ, Eva MINÁŘOVÁ, Květoslava KLÍMOVÁ, Karla ONDRÁŠKOVÁ and Ivana KOLÁŘOVÁ. Slovník jazykovědné terminologie k učebnicím českého jazyka pro základní školy (The Dictionary of Linguistic Terminology to the Czech Language Textbooks for the primary and for the first classes of the secondary schools). 1st ed. Brno: Nová škola, 2001, 108 pp. ISBN 80-7289-032-8. info
  • KNESELOVÁ, Helena and Květoslava KLÍMOVÁ. Texty ke korekturám. Pro studenty učitelství českého jazyka na všech stupních škol (Texts to the Correction. For the Students of Czech Language Teaching at schools of all Levels). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2001, 70 pp. ISBN 80-210-2540-9. info
  • BALHAR, Jan. O češtině každodenní. 1. vyd. Brno: Blok, 1984, 286 s. URL info
Teaching methods
The type of tuition: seminar. A seminar, active analytical students work in the analysis of texts, active synthetic students work in the interpretation of linguistic phenomena, discussion about the professional course issues. The tuition will have a form of language and orthographical excercises - spoken and written.
Assessment methods
Presentations at the workshop to the selected sub-theme related to the issue of linguistic correctness. The knowledge of discussed matter will be verified by written tests in each semminar session. The final test includes approximately20 questions focused to elementary language phenomena. To be successfull student has to answer 80 % of them. Testing knowledge of spelling and grammar knowledge.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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