LgMB04 Stylistics and poetics

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Bohumil Fořt, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Bohumil Fořt, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
Active knowledge of Czech (for second language speakers the communicative knowledge.
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
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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.
Learning outcomes
Finishing the course, the tudent will understand the general principles of stylistics as a theoretical science discipline. It is necessary to distinguish and justify the difference between stylistics and the text stylization, and to understand and rationale the fact that open discipline such as stylistics is has different contents in different cultures (and in linguistics). Therefore, the aim is not to teach Czech stylistics, although Czech and its conception are the basis for differential understanding of other approaches. The aim of the course is not the practice of stylization of some selected types of texts, which serves other courses.
Syllabus
  • Czech stylistics - lecture Style, its definitions. Permanent communicative factors and their influence on stylization of texts. Stylistika – OJ 446 osnova na JS 2015 1. Style, its definitions. Linguistic style. 2. Stylistics as a study of style. Possible approaches of stylistics. 3. Position of stylistics among philological disciplines. Difference between the literary and linguistic understanding of style and stylistics. 4. Relationship of the present-day (Czech) conception of stylistics to the tradition of rhetoric. Poetics and its approach in relation to present-day theoretical stylistics. 3. Permanent communicative factors and their influence on the text stylization. 4. Subjective and objective stylistic factors. Possibilities of differentiation of styles on the basis of generalized stylistic factors. 5. Dichotomy of form (formal) and expression (functional). 6. Generalization in stylistics; singular style – authorial style – genre style – objective and subjective style. Horizontal and vertical division of styles. 7. Function of the messages as the fundamental objective stylistic factor. Theory of functional styles. Traditional concepts of the functional styles theory – concept of stylistic sphere, stylistic type and stylistic layer. Stylistic norm. 8. Functional styles; development of the system of functional styles since the 1930s. 9. Relationships among the individual stylistic spheres. 10. Composition of texts. Stylistic procedures and their characteristic features. 11. Typical genres in the individual stylistic spheres. Coherence and cohesion of the text. Horizontal and vertical stratification of texts. 12. Stylemes. Types of stylemes. 13. Automated and foregrounded usage of means of expression. 14. Markedness on the individual grammatical levels of language. Markedness of lexical items. 15. Stylistic norms of the individual functional styles. 16. Typical features of styles of matter-of-fact texts. 17. Typical features of styles of scientific texts. 18. Typical features of styles of newspaper – publicistic texts. 19. Typical features of styles of rhetoric texts. 20. Typical features of styles of administrative texts. 21. Typical features of styles of Belles-lettres texts. 22. Relationship between authorial language and style.
Literature
    required literature
  • Nový encyklopedický slovník češtiny. Edited by Petr Karlík - Marek Nekula - Jana Pleskalová. První vydání. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2016, Strana 110. ISBN 9788074224829. info
  • HOFFMANOVÁ, Jana, Jiří HOMOLÁČ, Eliška CHVALOVSKÁ, Lucie JÍLKOVÁ, Petr KADERKA, Petr MAREŠ and Kamila MRÁZKOVÁ. Stylistika mluvené a psané češtiny. Vydání první. Praha: Academia, 2016, 510 stran. ISBN 9788020025661. info
  • ČECHOVÁ, Marie, Marie KRČMOVÁ and Eva MINÁŘOVÁ. Současná stylistika. Vydání první. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2008, 381 stran. ISBN 9788071069614. info
  • HOFFMANOVÁ, Jana. Stylistika a-- :současná situace stylistiky. 1. vyd. Praha: Trizonia, 1997, 200 s. ISBN 80-85573-67-9. info
  • HRABÁK, Josef. Poetika. 1. vyd. Praha: Československý spisovatel, 1973, 332 s. info
    recommended literature
  • Findra, Ján,Štylistika súčasněj slovenčiny, Osveta 2013
  • Stilističeskij enciklopedičeskij slovar' russkogo jazyka. Edited by Je. A. Baženova - M. P. Kotjurova - A. P. Skovorodnikov - Margarita N. Spravočnoje izd. Moskva: Flinta, 2003, 694 s. ISBN 502002791X. info
  • WALES, Katie. A dictionary of stylistics. 2nd ed. Harlow: Longman, 2001, viii, 429. ISBN 0582317371. info
  • KRAUS, Jiří. Rétorika v evropské kultuře. Vyd. 2. (přeprac.). Praha: Academia, 1998, 182 s. ISBN 8020006591. info
  • CRYSTAL, David. The Cambridge encyclopedia of the English language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, vii, 489. ISBN 0521401798. info
  • BEČKA, Josef Václav. Česká stylistika. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1992, 467 s. ISBN 8020000208. info
  • CRYSTAL, David. The Cambridge encyclopedia of language. 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, vii, 472. ISBN 0521264383. info
Teaching methods
lectures, drills
Assessment methods
The final examination is based on discussion of a text analysis, the written form of which the student will submit no later than five days before the exam. The knowledge of theories, terminology and their application will also be tested. The methods of text analysis will be discussed during the course , 80% attendance in sessions is compulsory. Topics for revision - see www.phil.muni.cz/jazyk/předměty - and there under the name of the teacher. Password will be announced in class.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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