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Lecturer(s)
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Hildenbrand Zuzana, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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The course aspires to explain basic terminology of general linguistics and individual linguistic disciplines (mainly phonetics, morphology, syntax, lexicology and semantics). 1. Language, speech, communication, text. Language and its attributes: sign, double articulation, social and systematic character. Natural and artificial language. Relationship of language with other communication codes. Language and context 2. The origins of language and humans. Biological and neurological basics of language. Animal communication. Language ontogenesis. 3. Linguistics: language research methods, synchronic and diachronic descriptivism, linguistic subcategories, relation of linguistics to other scientific disciplines, inter/transdisciplinarity. 4. Brief overview of development of linguistics. Comparative and historical grammar of the 19th century, structuralism, generative linguistics, textual linguistics, discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics. 5. Spoken and written language. Brief history of writing. 6. Genetic classification of languages, proto-language and proto-land reconstruction, causes and mechanisms of language change. 7. Language construction: phonetic, phonological, morphological and syntactic plan. Language typology. Language units. 8. Language and language variation: idiolects, dialects, sociolects and styles. Language contact: creole languages and pidgins.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
- Attendace
- 25 hours per semester
- Preparation for the Exam
- 25 hours per semester
- Semestral Work
- 25 hours per semester
- Homework for Teaching
- 25 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The course aims at explaining basic terminology of general linguistics and individual linguistic disciplines (mainly phonetics, morphology, syntax, lexicology and semantics).
The student has basic knowledge concerning linguistics and its basic current disciplines.
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Prerequisites
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None.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Mark, Seminar Work, Written exam
Final written exam, written 5-page essay on chosen theme, reading 400 pages of specialized research texts in Czech.
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Recommended literature
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Čermák, F. (2001). Jazyk a jazykovědy. Praha.
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Erhart, A. (2001). Úvod do jazykovědy. Brno.
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Radford, A et al. (2009). Linguistics: introduction. Cambridge.
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