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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 the language in society - symbolic, etnoidentifying, communicative. 3. Language situation - Czech language as national/ethnic language, factors having influence on contemporary functioning of the Czech language. 4. Stratification of the national/ethnic language - standard and substandard language, functional varieties, code switching. 5. Language and social values - changes in attitudes to the Czech language during 20th and 21st centuries, key historical factors. 6. Language politics and planning - cultural and political institutions and language, standard language as political phenomena. 7. Language and social (auto)identification - specifics of the Czech language and their changes, professional aspects. 8. Language and sex - gender vs. feministic linguistics, gender and communicative strategies. 9. Language and age - communication between/among generations, dynamics of language, progressivness vs. regressivness of communication. 10. Commonly spoken language as object of research - sociolinguistically oriented analysis of the discourse. 11. Languages in contact - language areals in the Europe, Czech language in the European context. 12. Bilingualism and diglossia - psychological and social aspect of the problem, perspectives of inhabitants of 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 discipline focuses on the special problems of the relationship between language and society - on the role of social status of communicants, their age, gender and communicative needs (and wishes), on the role of education, on the language politics and planning, all illustrated on language situation in Czech lands and Middle Europe.
Very good orientation in mutual relations between language and society and, in general, facilities in utilization of findings of another sciences about the society in the exploration of language. The course also offers some inspiration for developing student´s 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
a) activity in class; b) presentation of student´s own commentary on special sociolinguistic topic (with application on Czech language and its situation, if possible).
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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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