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Lecturer(s)
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Hudabiunigg Ingrid, prof.
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Čapek Jan, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Lexicology as a scientific discipline. Other related disciplines. Word. Vocabulary enrichment. Word formation. Compounding, derivation, conversion, acronyms, onomatopoeia. Borrowing from other languages. Borrowing of words, purism. Changes of meaning. Semantics, transfer of meaning (metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche), narrowing and broadening of the meaning, hyperbole, litotes, euphemism. Formation of phrasal expressions. Classification of phrasal expressions: word pairs, idioms, household words, proverbs, phrasal expressions and their characteristics. Current state of modern German vocabulary. Analysis of modern German vocabulary, structural and genetic analysis, historical analysis, semantic analysis, social and territorial analysis. Lexicography. Monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, encyclopaedias.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Stimulating activities (simulation, games, drama)
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Learning outcomes
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The course makes students familiar with the structure, changes and the most notable trends in contemporary German in the field of literary and colloquial vocabulary, variability of the lexical system and the factors influencing its stratification. The contents of the subject are particular characteristics of lexemes, the ways of enriching vocabulary, semantic relations between particular lexical units, changing the meaning depending on the context and the overall analysis of modern German vocabulary. In the seminars, the emphasis is put on working with specific texts. Thus students are encouraged to interpret the German texts with standard and non-standard elements correctly.
Students will actively manage issues of German vocabulary, word formation, words imported from other languages, metaphorics and pharseology. They will correctly interpret authentic German texts with standard and non standard elements. They will be able to characterize lexems, ways of enriching vocabulary, they will understand relationships between separate lexical units in terms of significance and will be capable of general analysis of modern German vocabulary.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
KCJ/JNC1
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance assessment
Active participation in seminars (min. 75%), completion of given tasks. Written test based on the topics covered in the lectures, seminars and set tasks.
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Recommended literature
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Kratochvílová. Kollokationen im Lexikon und im Text. Mehrwortverbindungen im Deutschen und Tschechischen. Berlin, 2011.
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SCHIPPAN, T. Lexikologie der deutschen Gegenwartssprache. Max Niemeyer Verlag. Tübingen, 1992.
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