Course: Rhetoric

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Course title Rhetoric
Course code KBH/VRETO
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Bláha Ondřej, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Rhetorics, its meaning in contemporary public communication, its current trends and bibliography. 2. Conditions of effective communication, main principles of the intelligibility of certain text. 3. Actual language situation and general principles of cultural usage of language. 4. Principles of adequate choice of expressions, pronuncation, form and meaning, collocability. 5. Syntactic aspects of rhetoric speech. 6. Sound modulation of rhetoric speech. 7. Improving of diction and ability to speak consitently. 8. Specific language means of rhetoric speech (figures, tropes and non-figurative means). 9. Types on non-verbal signals in rhetoric speech. 10. Rhetoric style, its genres and composition of rhetoric speech. 11. Types of speakers, relation between speaker and listeners. 12. Some logical aspects of rhetorics (types of argumentation, eristics). 13. Pragmatic aspects of rhetoric speech (principle of cooperation, courtesy maxims, speech etiquette).

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Observation, Demonstration
Learning outcomes
The course deals with prerequisities and components of cultivated speech (invention, composition, elocution, mnemonics, realisation). The lecturer pays attention also to the rhetoric usage of specific language means (figures and tropes) and non-verbal means of communication. Among main topics belong both the typology of speakers and the characteristics of rhetoric genres. The course gives to its participants concrete proposals how to improve their own rhetoric abilities.
Improved ability to speak in public with refinement and adequacy in consideration of communicated subject matter. Ability to qualified review of another speaker with regard to the quality and tectonics of his speech (and thus with regard to the aims of his speech and to the strategy that the speaker uses).
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge in linguistic terminology. General knowledge in contemporary Czech culture: it is necessary for analysis of speech of Czech public figures.

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Analysis of linguistic, Dialog, Systematic Observation of Student

Activity in class; analyse of speech of certain person; student´s own speech in front of class (thema on student´s own choice).
Recommended literature
  • BUCHTOVÁ, Božena. (2010). Rétorika: vážnost mluveného slova. 2., aktualiz. vyd.. Praha.
  • Hierhold, E. (2008). Rétorika a prezentace. Praha.
  • Hubáček, J. (1990). Rétorické minimum pro studium učitelství. Praha.
  • Jelínek, D., Švandová, B. a kol. (1999). Argumentace a umění komunikovat. Brno.
  • Kohout, J. (1999). Rétorika: umění mluvit a jednat s lidmi. Praha: Management Press.
  • KRAUS, J. (2010). Rétorika a řečová kultura. 2., dopl. vyd.. Praha.
  • Kraus, J. (1998). Rétorika v evropské kultuře. Praha.
  • Langer, A. (1993). Úspěch veřejné promluvy. Kapitoly z rétoriky. Praha.
  • LEWIS, D. (2004). Tajná řeč těla. Praha: Hodego: East West Publishing Copany.
  • LOTKO, E. (2009). Kapitoly ze současné rétoriky. 3. vyd.. Olomouc.
  • Mikuláštík, M. (2010). Komunikační dovednosti v praxi. Praha: Grada.
  • ŠPAČKOVÁ, Alena. (2009). Moderní rétorika: jak mluvit k druhým lidem, aby nám naslouchali a rozuměli. 3., dopl. vyd.. Praha.
  • TRNKA, Jan. (1997). Soudobá rétorika pro ekonomy. Praha.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2025) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology for News Media Editors (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology for News Media Editors (2025) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2025) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2015) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -