AJ02005 Introduction to the Study of English

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 1999
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. Mgr. Jan Chovanec, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Ludmila Urbanová, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Ing. Mgr. Jiří Rambousek, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Michaela Hrazdílková
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
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to make the student acquainted with the basic notions in the field of general linguistics. English language study and history of English studies in the Czech lands. At the same time, it is crucial to discuss 20th century linguistic schools and theories and their applicability in present-day language research.
Syllabus
  • Language as a System of Signs. Form and Meaning in Language. Encoding and Decoding. Language Functions
  • Pronounciation and Spelling. Sounds and Phonemens. Segments and Suprasegments.
  • Grammar in Spoken and Written Language. Grammatical Acceptability.
  • Vocabulary, its Structure and Development. Basic Vordstock, Vocabulary Stratificaion.
  • Discourse Analysis. Text and Context.
  • Structuralism. Ferdinand de Saussure and the Geneva School.
  • Prague School of Linguistics:Mathesius, Trnka, Vachek, Jakobson, Trubetzkoy. Functionalism in the Prague School.
  • American Descriptivism: Bloomfield. Anthropological Linguistics:Sapir, Whorf.
  • Transformational Grammar:Chomsky. Surface Structure and Deep Structure.
  • Functional Sentence Perspective. Brno School of Linguistics.
Literature
  • URBANOVÁ, Ludmila. A handbook of English phonetics and phonology. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 1998, 67 s. ISBN 8021017287. info
  • HLADKÝ, Josef, Milan RŮŽIČKA and Jitka VLČKOVÁ. Úvod do studia anglického jazyka. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1998, 85 s. ISBN 8021018887. info
  • WIDDOWSON, H. G. Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, xiii, 134. ISBN 0194372065. info
  • CRYSTAL, David. The English language. London: Penguin Books, 1988, 288 s. ISBN 0-14-013532-4. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
příprava a aktivní spolupráce pri rozboru textů; kolokvium na konci semestru na základě teoretické znalosti a schopnosti aplikace v textové analýze (texty různých stylů a žánrů)
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught every week.
Information on course enrolment limitations: 5 skupin studentů
  • Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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