UzNJII_34 Methods of Text Analysis

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Káňa, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. PhDr. Jiřina Malá, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiřina Malá, CSc.
Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 10:00–10:45 B12
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 45 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/45, only registered: 0/45
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The seminar presents the linguistic of discourse as a relatively new philology discipline and its aims, topics and possibilities of the text analysis. The most important goal of the seminar is the discussion about text structures. Their analysis enables better understanding of texts and in this way gives students a lead for writing coherent German texts. The description of texts is based on de Beaugrande's and Dressler's constituvise features and regulative principles of texts. The analyses are made exclusively on authentic German texts. The final part of the seminar focuses the cohesion and coherence of parallel Czech and German texts.
Syllabus
  • Linguistics of Discourse as a part of philology, its aims and goals Text and “texteme” (text invariant), definition of text, text and “non-text” Constitutive and regulative principles of textuality Cohesion and coherence Description of cohesive and coherence elements in texts (recurrence, pro-form, deixeis…) Pragmatic features of text: intentionality, informativity, situationality, intertuxtuality) Boarders of acceptability Cohesion and coherence in parallel texts
Literature
  • BRINKER, Klaus. Linguistische Textanalyse. Eine Einfuhrung in Grundbegriffe und Methoden. 2. vyd. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1988, 151 s. ISBN 3-503-02275-9. info
  • BEAUGRANDE, Robert-Alain. Einfuhrung in die Textlinguistik. Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1981, 290 s. ISBN 3-484-22028-7. info
  • BEAUGRANDE, Robert-Alain de and Wolfgang U. DRESSLER. Introduction to text linguistics. 1st publ. London: Longman, 1981, 270 s. : g. ISBN 0-582-55486-1. info
Assessment methods
written test: complex analysis of the text
Language of instruction
German
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2009.
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