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Lecturer(s)
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Bláha Ondřej, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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(1) Sociolinguistics - aims and methods of sociolinguistic research, interpretation of the results, bibliography. (2) Functions of language in society - symbolic, ethno-identifying, communicative. (3) Language situation - Czech language as a national/ethnic language, factors influencing contemporary functioning of the Czech language. (4) Stratification of national/ethnic language - standard and substandard language, functional varieties, code switching. (5) Language and social values - changes in attitudes to the Czech language in the 20th and 21st centuries, key historical factors. (6) Language politics and planning - cultural and political institutions and language, standard language as political phenomenon. (7) Language and social (auto)identification - specifics of the Czech language and their changes, professional aspects. (8) Language and sex - gender vs. feminist linguistics, gender and communicative strategies. (9) Language and age - communication between/among generations, dynamics of language, progressiveness vs. regressiveness of communication. (10) Colloquial language as object of research - sociolinguistically oriented discourse analysis. (11) Languages in contact - language areas in Europe, Czech language in the European context. (12) Bilingualism and diglossia - psychological and social aspects of the problem, perspectives of inhabitants of the European Union.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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The course aims to introduce students to the issue of relations between language and society - it takes note of ethnic/national, social/demographic and psychological aspects of communication and strives to relate theoretical postulates from key international texts to specific situation of Czech as a national language.
Very good orientation in mutual relations between language and society and, in general, ability to use findings of other sciences about society in exploration of language. The course also offers some inspiration for developing students' own communicative competence.
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Prerequisites
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Knowledge in terminology of linguistics. General knowledge in social sciences on the level of Czech leaving exam of the course "Introduction to the sciences about the society".
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance, Dialog, Systematic Observation of Student
(1) Active participation in class (no more than 2 absences); (2) Presentation (commentary on a selected sociolinguistic topic with application to Czech), also submitted in electronic form.
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Recommended literature
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FASOLD, Ralph. (1990). The sociolinguistics of language. Oxford.
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Helbig, G. (1991). Vývoj jazykovědy po roce 1970. Praha.
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HORECKÝ, Ján. (1982). Spoločnosť a jazyk. Bratislava.
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HUDSON, Richard A., ed. (2004). Sociolinguistics (2. vyd.). Cambridge.
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Kořenský, J. (1992). Komunikace a čeština. Jinočany.
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NEŠČIMENKO, Galina P. (1999). Etničeskij jazyk. München.
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Ondrejovič, S. (2008). Jazyk, veda o jazyku, societa. Bratislava.
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Salzmann, Zdeněk. (1997). Jazyk, kultura a společnost. Praha.
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SGALL, Petr et al. (1992). Variation in language: code switching in Czech as a challenge for sociolinguistics.. Amsterdam.
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SCHLIEBEN-LANGE, Brigitte. (1991). Soziolinguistik. Eine Einführung (3. vyd.). Stuttgart.
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Šatava, L. (2001). Jazyk a identita etnických menšin. Praha.
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ŠTEFÁNIK, Jozef, ed. (2004). Antológia bilingvizmu. Bratislava.
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ŠVEJCER, Aleksandr D. - NIKOLSKIJ, Leonid B. (1983). Úvod do sociolingvistiky. Praha.
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WARDHOUGH, Ronald. (1986). An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Oxford.
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