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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. Users of Czech language - nationality, place of residence, gender and age, education and profession as aspects influencing the verbal behavior. 2. Standard (regulated) Czech - theoretical approaches, the problem of so-called Spoken Standard Czech, so-called expansion of Common Czech, functional styles of Czech language. 3. Czech substandards - usually spoken "Western" Czech and "Eastern" Czech, actual state of interdialects and dialects (included the social ones). 4. Historical background of actual language situation of Czech - language of "the Golden era" (16th century) and language of "the Dark ages" (17th and 18th century), the role of Josef Dobrovský and other grammarians in 19th and 20th centuries. 5. Spoken and written language - differences between these two modes of language existence, typology of texts with regard of their (un)preparedness. 6. System of word classes - featuring of particular categories in texts (spoken and written), autosemantics vs. synsemantics, nouns vs. verb, functions of adjectives and adverbs. 7. Lexicon of spoken Czech - situation of speaking, deictics, pragmalinguistic aspects, lexical differences between "Western" and "Eastern" Czech. 8. Lexicon of (mostly) written Czech - publicistic, administrative, scientific and artistic texts. 9. Syntax of spoken Czech - fragmental character of utterances, redundancy, repertory of conjunctions, the term "semantic-pragmatic unit". 10. Syntax of (mostly) written Czech - publicistic, administrative, scientific and artistic texts. 11. Verbal inflection - functionally conditioned differences in the use of grammatical cathegories (in use of conditional and infinitive too), regionally conditioned differences in the word form (3rd pers., pl., praes.; preterite etc.). 12. Noun inflection - functionally conditioned differences in the use of grammatical cathegories (mostly of the cathegory of case), regionally conditioned differences in the word form (gender, variation of endings etc.).
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Methods of Written Work
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Learning outcomes
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The discipline introduces to functional variability of the contemporary Czech language, especially to the relationship between spoken and written language and to functional styles. Both main topics are introduced by the analysis of texts (e. g. transcripts of TV and radio programmes, telephone calls and then e-mails, SMS, chat etc.).
The course leads its students to be able to make qualified linguistic analyses of all usual Czech texts regarding to the functions of used words, syntactic constructions, non-verbal and para-verbal means of communication etc. The students will analyse these texts with respect to the situation in that the texts came into being, to the social status of communicants, to the canal of communication and to other various aspects of language functioning. The course deals with improving student´s stylistic abilities too, included ability to produce Czech texts without markable regional (interdialectal) features.
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Prerequisites
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Basic knowledge in linguistic terminology and in methods of linguistic research.
KBH/KORL and KBH/FSCES
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam, Systematic Observation of Student, Seminar Work
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Recommended literature
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Bláha, O. (2009). Funkční stratifikace češtiny. Olomouc.
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Hudson, R.A.:. Sociolinguistics. Cambridge University Press, 1999..
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Kořenský, J. a kol. Český jazyk. Najnowsze dzieje języków słowiańskich. Opole 1998..
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NEŠČIMENKO, G. P. (1999). Etničeskij jazyk. München.
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Ondrejovič, S. (2008). Jazyk, veda o jazyku, societa. Bratislava.
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