| Course title | Introduction into General Linguistics |
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| Course code | KOL/UOL |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture + Seminar |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | 1 |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 5 |
| Language of instruction | Czech |
| Status of course | Compulsory, Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
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| Course content |
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(1) Linguistics, subject matter and methods of its investigations, core and complementary linguistic disciplines (2) Relation of linguistics to other sciences, trends in contemporary linguistics (3) Basic linguistic methods and approaches to language (4) Essence of natural language, comparison with artificial languages (5)-(6) Systemic quality of language, language levels, relation between centre and periphery (7) Communication process, core and complementary functions of language (8)-(9) Language as code, langue and parole, competence and performance, speech acts theory (10) Concept of language sign, semiotics (11) Classification of languages, mainly typological (12) Territorial and social stratification of national languages
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
| Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook) |
| Learning outcomes |
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The aim of the course is to introduce students to basic concepts of language and linguistics. Students will acquire knowledge of nature of natural language and methods of its investigation. The course is constructed as introduction of basic linguistic disciplines and their methods of learning about language. Certain basic linguistic terms and concepts are demonstrated along with their use in researching language data. Students get acquainted with modelling of language system based on levels of language, with all the advantages and drawbacks that go with this method - semiotically speaking for instance, the level of speech sounds and higher level language units are clearly distinct and their systems are constructed based on different principles, while on the contrary determination of which level of language many language phenomena belong to is far from simple or even impossible (morphological and lexical levels cannot be clearly distinguished between in certain languages, definition of word is problematic and many approaches work with it in completely different manners, concept of sentences is based on various criteria, etc.). Furthermore, the so-called langue-parole hypothesis is presented, along with its historical development and the limits of its background in linguistic description, with elaboration on its non-correspondence with communicatively oriented linguistic descriptions. The course outlines theories of sing in quite some detail, along with sign models and use of sing concepts in grammatical description. In this context, other concepts of linguistic theory are explained, such as speech act, language type, centre and periphery, markedness and other, and are treated analogically to other previously covered language levels and the langue-parole hypothesis. The course attempts to show how linguistics on one hand understands description of language systemically and based on linguistic method, while it also on the other hand investigates language manifestations from dialectological mapping to etymology to social stratification or instrumental tasks of formal languages.
Basic knowledge of linguistic theory, its terminology and systematics |
| Prerequisites |
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unspecified
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Mark, Written exam, Essay, Seminar Work
(1) Regular preparation / required reading (2) Examination |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Lingvistics and Digital Humanities (2020) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): General Linguistics and Communication Theory (2021) | Category: Philological sciences | 1 | Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Chinese Studies (2023_24) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Chinese Studies (2015) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Japanese Philology (2016) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): General Linguistics and Communication Theory (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 1 | Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Japanese Philology (2019_24) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): General Linguistics and Communication Theory (2021) | Category: Philological sciences | 1 | Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Lingvistics and Digital Humanities (2020) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Chinese Studies (2015) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Indonesian Studies for Tourism (2017) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): General Linguistics and Communication Theory (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 1 | Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Lingvistics and Digital Humanities (2020) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter |