CJJ05 Modern Czech – norm and codification I

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jarmila Vojtová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Lucie Velebová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Jarmila Vojtová, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Silvie Hulewicz, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 120 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/120, only registered: 0/120, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/120
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The aim of the course is to get students acquainted with the orthographic norm of present-day Czech and to practise the knowledge systematically. Attention will be paid to purely orthographical issues (capitalization) as well as to issues relating to morphology (the usage of i/y) and syntax (the usage of i/y in predicates, punctuation). Another aim of the course is to get orientated in orthographical issues that often cause problems to language users, in works providing codification of Standard Czech, in relevant internet sources (e.g. Internetová jazyková příručka Ústavu pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i.). Every lesson is focused on explanations and intensive practising of a specific problematic issue.
Learning outcomes
Having participated in the course, students will be able:
- to get orientated in Standard Czech codification;
- to identify and explain more difficult phenomena of orthography;
- to use the acquired knowledge practically, writing texts;
- to identify and correct mistakes against the rules of Standard Czech, also in texts by other authors.
Syllabus
  • 1. Usage, norm and codification.
  • 2. i/y and í/ý in roots and endings of words.
  • 3. Prepositions, prefixes and suffixes with particular regard to orthography.
  • 4. Punctuation in simple sentences.
  • 5. Punctuation in complex and compound sentences.
  • 6. Division of words, hyphenation.
  • 7. Capitalization.
  • 8. Abbreviations.
  • 9. Loan-words.
  • 10. Revision.
  • 11. Final test.
Literature
    required literature
  • Akademická příručka českého jazyka. Edited by Markéta Pravdová - Ivana Svobodová. Vydání 1., Praha 2014, dot. Praha: Academia, 2014, 533 stran. ISBN 9788020023278. info
  • KRAUS, Jiří. Nový akademický slovník cizích slov A-Ž. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2005, 879 s. ISBN 9788020013514. info
  • Slovník spisovné češtiny pro školu a veřejnost. Edited by Josef Filipec. 4. vyd. Praha: Academia, 2005, 647 s. ISBN 978-80-200-1446-7. info
  • HLAVSA, Zdeněk. Pravidla českého pravopisu : školní vydání včetně Dodatku. Vyd. 2., rozš., v nakl. For. Praha: Fortuna, 1999, 383 s. ISBN 8071689130. info
    recommended literature
  • Nový encyklopedický slovník češtiny. Edited by Petr Karlík - Marek Nekula - Jana Pleskalová. První vydání. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2016, 1092 stran. ISBN 9788074224812. info
  • KARLÍK, Petr, Jana PLESKALOVÁ and Marek NEKULA. Encyklopedický slovník češtiny (Encyclopaedia of the Czech language). Praha: LN, 2002, 10 pp. Nakladatelství Lidové noviny. ISBN 80-7106-484-X. info
Teaching methods
Tutor’s explanations of theory, practical exercises relating to partial problematic features – a combination of inductive and deductive methods, presentations of authentic language materials (from the Czech National Corpus and from printed as well as electronic periodicals), using internet tools (f.e. “Internetová jazyková příručka”).
Assessment methods
Active work in seminars, semester paper, written credit test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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