Course: Philosophy of Language

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Course title Philosophy of Language
Course code KZU/FJMN
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 6
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
Lecturer(s)
  • Foret Martin, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Language and reality: Language and the shaping of reality, time, substance, unity and plurality, causality and being. Language and creation of reality: discourse and conversation, art, music and culture. 2. Philosophy and language: Philosophy and mediation concepts, language, reference, and self-reference. Analysis of language, semantics and theory of science. Wittgenstein: a treatise of diaries. 3. Philosophy and Communication: Philosophical dimensions of communication, and konstativy performative, communicative acts, communicative action, media communication and transformation discourse. 4. Language games and problems discourses Wittgenstein: Philosophical study, logic and explanations, patterns or images, calculi and deposition. Words and worlds works: N. Goodman. 5. Texts, languages and reading letters, texts and spoken language, ways of reading and decoding. Books, newspapers, scenarios: digital, transcoding and communication links within the language. 6. Exploration, contexts and interpretations: Ontological Relativity, concept, context and Recontextualisation, rationality and interpretation, the possibility of language and concepts - models of the world. 7. Conceptual schemas, mental events: coherence theory of truth and knowledge, conceptual criteria of identity patterns, diversity of languages and issues of knowledge and communication. 8. Communication and Culture: Communicative a priori discourse, discourse as a game, mediation communication, space communication, randomness, irony and cultural production.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
The aim of this course is analytically described and put into context the concept of language and communication in the selected philosophical concepts, including the cultural and social reflection (actor aktant etc.). The starting point for interpreting the relationship of language to shape the way the facts, therefore, changes the dynamics of mediation - including mediation (concepts, images, techniques, etc..) between knowledge and its interpretation by linking groups: forms of communication. The main sources of the course will be primarily the work of authors: L. Wittgenstein, J. L. Austin, V. Flusser, M. Foucault, N. Goodman, J. Habermas, R. Rorty.
The student understands the connections between the conceptions of language and communciation in chosen philosophical theories
Prerequisites
The knowledge of the basic terms from the language and communication field of study.

Assessment methods and criteria
Seminar Work

Ability to verbally present any of the topics discussed in the class, essay.
Recommended literature
  • Štěpán J. Jazyk - Logika - Filozofie. VUP Olomouc, 2002.


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): Media Studies - Communication Studies specialization (2019) Category: Journalism, library science and informatics 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Media Studies (2019) Category: Journalism, library science and informatics - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Winter