OJ446 Stilistics and poetics

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2005
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Marie Krčmová, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Marie Krčmová, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Fri 10:00–11:35 9
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
The lecture will focus on the main theoretical concepts of modern Czech stylistics, such as the position of stylistics among other linguistic disciplines, the relation between style and language, stylistic factors, main functional styles, stylistic markedness/unmarkedness at various levels of language and other related topics.
Syllabus
  • Czech stylistics - lecture Style, its definitions. Permanent communicative factors and their influence on stylization of texts. Subjective and objective stylistic factors. Possibilities of differentiation of styles on the basis of generalized stylistic factors. Horizontal and vertical stratification of styles. Function of texts as the principal objective stylisitc factor. Theory of functional styles. Traditionaol concepts of the functional styles theory - stylistic sphere, stylistic type and stylistic layer. Functional styles in Czech; development of the system of functional styles since the 1930s. Rekationships among the individual stylistic spheres. Composition of texts. Stylistic procedures and their characteristic features. Typical genres in the individual stylistic spheres. Coherence and cohesion of the text. Horizontal and vertical stratification of texts. Stylemes. Types of stylemes. Automated and foregrounded usage of means of expression. Markedness on the individual grammatical level of language. Markedness of lexical items. Technical functional style, its stylistic norms. Differentiation of stylistic norms within the technical functional style. Administrative functional style, its stylistic norms. Differentiation of stylistic norms within the administrative functional style. Journalistic functional style, its stylistic norms. Differentiation of stylistic norms within the journalistic texts. Colloquial functional style, its stylistic norms. Problems of using the means of expression of the colloquial style in fiction. Rhetorical style, its stylistic norms. Differentiation of style within rhetorical texts. Literary functional style, differentiation of its means of expression. Problems of authors' language and style.
Literature
  • MINÁŘOVÁ, Eva, Marie KRČMOVÁ, Jan CHLOUPEK and Marie ČECHOVÁ. Současná česká stylistika (Stylistics of the Contemporary Czech Language). 1st ed. Praha: ISV nakladatelství, 2003, 342 pp. none. ISBN 80-86642-00-3. info
  • JELÍNEK, Milan. Příruční mluvnice češtiny. (A Reference Grammar of the Czech Language.). Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 1996. ISBN 80-7106-134-4. info
  • BEČKA, Josef Václav. Česká stylistika. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1992, 467 s. ISBN 8020000208. info
  • Další odbornou literaturu tvoří práce o stylistice v nejrůznějších jazycích světa.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Předmět se ukončuje zkouškou. Má část písemnou - samostatný stylistický rozbor textu, který je nutno odevzdat nejpozději 10 pracovních dní před zkouškou, a rozhovor o rozboru, při němž se zároveń ověří znalost pojmosloví oboru a schopnost s ním samostatně pracovat.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://www.phil.muni.cz/jazyk/studium - a podle čísla předmětu
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2004, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022.
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