TCZJ02 Czech Sign Language I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Hana Strachoňová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lucia Vlášková
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Aneta Fidrichová
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 12:00–13:40 M22
Prerequisites
It is recommended to attend the following courses concurrently: TCZJ01 Language practice I, TCZJ05 Conversation I, TCZJ03 Practical Czech Sign Language I.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 8/20, only registered: 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The goal of the course is to familiarize the students with basic grammatical phenomena in the Czech Sign language.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, students understand the grammar they use and they can explain it (in Czech).
Syllabus
  • types of verbs, classifiers and size and shape specifiers, frozen signs, pluralization, negation, use of glosses, wh-questions, wh-signs, the word order of the noun phrase, sign PRO, personal and possessive pronouns, agreement in space, numeral incorporation, non-manual components (mouthing and mouth gesture), topographic and syntactic space, reference loci
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Dictio: Vícejazyčný výkladový slovník online [online]. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2018. Dostupné z: www.dictio.info.
  • SignGram Blueprint : a guide to sign language grammar writing. Edited by Brendan Costello - Rannveig Sverrisdóttir - Josep Quer - Carlo Cecche. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019, lxxii, 823. ISBN 9781501518966. info
  • The linguistics of sign languages : an introduction. Edited by Anne Baker - Beppie van den Bogaerde - Roland Pfau - Trude Schermer. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016, xv, 378. ISBN 9789027212306. info
  • Sign language : an international handbook. Edited by Roland Pfau - Markus Steinbach - B. Woll. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2012, xii, 1126. ISBN 9783110204216. info
  • SANDLER, Wendy and Diane C. LILLO-MARTIN. Sign language and linguistic universals. First published. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, xx, 547. ISBN 9780521483957. info
Teaching methods
- practical training in CSL - work with the lector - demonstration methods: work with image and video - analysis of examples
Assessment methods
oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://www.phil.muni.cz/jazyk
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2020.
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