FF:RSn068 Russian Linguoculturology - Course Information
RSn068 Linguoculturological Specifics of Russian
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Olga Berger, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Olga Berger, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Olga Berger, Ph.D.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts - Prerequisites
- The course is intended for those students who know Russian at minimum B2 level that’s why it’s not recommended to the first-year bachelor students.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Russian Philological and Cultural Studies (programme FF, N-RS_)
- Russian with a Focus on Translating (programme FF, N-RS_)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Russian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-RJU_)
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to provide general overview of linguoculturological movements and to familiarize with basic linguarealia and concepts typical for the Russian culture. The course is focused on the connection of cultural and historical phenomena with their reflection in the language and on the correct interpretation and semantization of language units based on the knowledge of Russian culture.
- Learning outcomes
- After finishing the course, the student will be able:
- to distinguish and to use basic linguoculturological terms;
- to describe linguoculturological methods;
- to have an overview about Russian basic concepts;
- to interpret and to explain the meaning of the particular precedential expressions and statements;
- to connect cultural and historical phenomena with their reflection in the language. - Syllabus
- 1. The language picture of the world. Linguoculturology. Mentality.
- 2. The Russian language sphere of concepts. Concepts.
- 3. Component analysis of meanings.
- 4. Two kinds of Russian culture: people’s, unofficial and official, book; double naming in Russian (glaza—oči, gorod—grad, istina—pravda, styd— sram atd.). “Practical idealism”.
- 5. Significant words for Russian culture (zaodno, ujut, vratʼ, guljatʼ, duša, žalostʼ atd.).
- 6. Expressing of national culturological specifics at different language levels (morphemics, word-forming, morphology, syntax).
- 7. Linguirealia (precedential statements and expressions from Russian literature and films, the Soviet cliché).
- 8. Euphemisms and their classification. Typical Russian euphemisms.
- 9. Active processes in modern Russian language from linguoculturological spesifics point of view.
- 10. The competition of “Word of the Year” and “Slovar’ peremen” as the reflection of the modern world.
- 11. General vocabulary of Russian and the way linguists work with it.
- 12. Summary.
- Literature
- Arutjunova, N. D. Jazyk i mir čeloveka, 1998
- Irina Dulebová, Nina Cingerová, Katarína Hrčková. Glosár ruských lingvoreálií. Bratislava: STIMUL, 2016.
- Apresjan, J. D. Obraz čeloveka po dannym jazyka: popytka sistemnogo opisanija. VJa, 1995
- KOLESOV, Vladimir Viktorovič and Marina Vladimirovna PIMENOVA. Jazykovyje osnovy russkoj mental'nosti : učebnoje posobije. 5-je izdanije, stereotipnoje. Moskva: Flinta, 2017, 134 stran. ISBN 9785020389410. info
- KOLESOV, Vladimir Viktorovič and Marina Vladimirovna PIMENOVA. Vvedenije v konceptologiju : učebnoje posobije. 4-je izdanije, stereotipnoje. Moskva: Flinta, 2017, 245 stran. ISBN 9785020389427. info
- LEVONTINA, Irina Borisovna. O čem reč'. Moskva: AST, 2016, 506 stran. ISBN 9785170926411. info
- LEVONTINA, Irina Borisovna. Russkij so slovarem. Moskva: AST, 2016, 461 stran. ISBN 9785170948765. info
- KOLESOV, Vladimir Viktorovič, Dar‘ja Vladimirovna KOLESOVA and Aleksandr Anatol‘jevi CHARITONOV. Slovar‘ russkoj mental‘nosti : v dvuch tomach. Sankt-Peterburg: Zlatoust, 2014, 591 s. ISBN 9785865476870. info
- RADBIL‘, Timur Ben‘juminovič. Osnovy izučenija jazykovogo mentaliteta : učebnoje posobije. 3-e izdanije. Moskva: Flinta, 2013, 325 stran. ISBN 9785020346765. info
- ČERMÁK, František. Lexikon a sémantika. Vyd. 1. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2010, 357 s. ISBN 9788074220203. info
- ŠMELEV, Dmitrij Nikolajevič. Problemy semantičeskogo analiza leksiki. Izd. 3. Moskva: URSS, 2007, 278 s. ISBN 9785382006161. info
- ZALIZNJAK, Anna Andrejevna and Aleksej Dmitrijevič ŠMELEV. Lekcii po ruskoj aspektologii. München: Otto Sagner, 1997, 151 s. ISBN 38769066733. info
- APRESJAN, Jurij Derenikovič. Èksperimental'noje issledovanije semantiki russkogo glagola. Moskva: Nauka, 1967, 250 stran. info
- APRESJAN, Jurij Derenikovič. Idei i metody sovremennoj strukturnoj lingvistiki : (kratkij očerk). Moskva: Prosveščenije, 1966, 300 s. info
- Teaching methods
- Teaching is in the form of seminars and lectures.
- Assessment methods
- During the course students will prepare the paper. The credit is given on the basis of the paper and the final test.
- Language of instruction
- Russian
- Further Comments
- The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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