OJ315 Technical functional style, its stylistic norms

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
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
Thu 13:20–14:55 C32
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 seminar includes explanations, discussion on concepts dealt with and individual work with texts, especially analysis of their features and re-writing texts deviating from the norms of scholarly communication.
Syllabus
  • Scholarly texts - scholarly discourses Structure of the course Text - utterance - discourse Scholarly texts - non-fictional texts - fiction Scholarly text - choice of topic and its specification Treatment of the topic - influence of models of scholarly communication in the particular period and field Treatment of the topic with regard to the addressee, text as a discourse Sources, scholarly sources and rules for using them, quotations; other sources Work with sources - notes, excerpts and their applications Work with a linguistic material, its presentation, choice of examples Choice of genres, transpositions of a text from one genre to another Organisation and stylization of a text Corrections in a text, changes in somebody else's text Preparing a spoken scholarly text Dispute as a genre, rules of scholarly disputes The seminar includes explanations, discussion on concepts dealt with and individual work with texts, especially analysis of their features and re-writing texts deviating from the norms of scholarly communication. If possible, the students attend lectures organized by the Czech linguic association, to get a first-hand experience with other types of scholarly texts. In the seminar following each lecture of this kind we will focus on positive and negative features of the lecture, from the viewpoints of contents (adequacy, examples given etc.) as well as form. Attention will also be paid o the discussion following after the lecture. Students receive their credits on the basis of an active participation in the course. The seminar cannot be completed in any other form.
Literature
  • MEŠKO, Dušan, Dušan KATUŠČÁK and Ján FINDRA. Akademická příručka. České, upr. vyd. Martin: Osveta, 2006, 481 s. ISBN 8080632197. info
  • ČMEJRKOVÁ, Světla, František DANEŠ and Jindra SVĚTLÁ. Jak napsat odborný text. Vydání první. Praha: Leda, 1999, 255 stran. ISBN 8085927691. info
  • ŠESTÁK, Zdeněk. Jak psát a přednášet o vědě. Illustrated by Hana Kymrová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1999, 204 s. ISBN 8020007555. info
  • ECO, Umberto and Ivan SEIDL. Jak napsat diplomovou práci. Olomouc: Votobia, 1997, 271 s. ISBN 80-7198-173-7. info
  • HOFFMANOVÁ, Jana. Stylistika a-- :současná situace stylistiky. 1. vyd. Praha: Trizonia, 1997, 200 s. ISBN 80-85573-67-9. info
  • JELÍNEK, Milan. Stylistika. In: Zdenka Rusínová: Specifičnost bohemistiky jakožto lingvistiky mateřského jazyka. Sborník Univerzity na prahu nového tisíciletí I. (Stylistics. In: Z. Rusínová: The Specifics of Bohemistics in Terms of Linguistics in Our Mother Tongue.). Brno: Vydavatelství Masarykovy univerzity, 1996. ISBN 80-210-1266-8. info
  • Writing vs speaking :language, text, discourse, communication : proceedings of the conference held at the Czech Language Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, October 14-16, 1992. Edited by Světla Čmejrková - František Daneš - Eva Havlová. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1994, 413 s. ISBN 3-8233-5057-9. info
Assessment methods
The course requires active class participation; 75% attendance is compulsory. Final assessment is based on class participation, submitted outline of a session (by teacher’s approval), and participation in tasks during the semester. More details and study materials can be found in IS, section Student-Resources. The file is accessible to course participants only.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2011.
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