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Course: Rhetoric in the History of Communication

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Course title Rhetoric in the History of Communication
Course code KLK/MRET
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 7
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Korábková Kateřina, Mgr. Bc. PhD.
Course content
Thematic areas: 1. Ancient rhetoric (pre-Aristotelian, Hellenistic, Roman). 2. Rhetoric and medieval culture. 3. The disintegration of the rhetorical system in the science and culture of the modern period. 4. Rhetoric in the 19th and 20th centuries. 5. Typology of rhetorical theories (rhetoric agonal, rhetoric as the promotion of philosophy and science, rhetoric as a theory of argumentation, rhetoric as a tool of education, rhetoric as a theory of text and stylistics).

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to provide a comprehensive view of rhetoric as a key discipline in the system of sciences about humans and their actions, the historical roots of rhetoric and the transformation of its functions from the Antiquity to the present day in the context of the values and currents of opinion of the related historical periods. Theoretical lessons will be accompanied by analyses of texts of rhetorical speeches by specific authors/rhetors and analyses of features of rhetorical style in works of academic or fictional literature.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
The course exam will consist of an analysis of two rhetorical speeches, one historical and one contemporary, and their comparison with each other on the basis of the knowledge gained in the course.
Recommended literature
  • Tribuni výmluvnosti. Výbor ze starověkých řečníků.. Praha: Odeon, 1974.
  • ARISTOTELES. Rétorika. Poetika. Praha: Rezek, 1999.
  • CURTIUS, E. Evropská literatura a latinský středověk. Praha, 1998.
  • Démosthénes. Řeči na sněmu. Praha. 2002.
  • JIRÁK,J. Antologie komentovaných textů z dějin rétorické praxe.
  • JUNGMANN,J. Slowesnost aneb Náuka o wýmluwnosti prosaické, básnické i řečnické se sbírkau příkladů v newázané i wázané řeči. Praha, 1820.
  • KOMENSKÝ, J.A. Zpráva a naučení o kazatelství. In: Opera omnia 4. Praha: Akademia, 1984.
  • KRAUS, J. Rétorika a řečová kultura. Praha: Karolinum, 2004.
  • KRAUS, J. Rétorika v evropské kultuře. Praha: Academia, 1998.
  • LOTKO, E. Kapitoly ze současné rétoriky. Olomouc, 1997.
  • OLIVA, P. Kolébka demokracie.. Praha, 2000.
  • OLIVA, P. Svět helénismu.. Praha, 2001.
  • OLIVA, P. Zrození evropské civilizace.. Praha, 2003.
  • PLATÓN. Dialogy Prótagoras, Faidros, Gorgias, Kratylos, Theiatétos. Ed. Oikúmené. Praha, 1992.
  • QUINTILIANUS. Základy rétoriky. Praha: Odeon, 1985.
  • ŽANTOVSKÁ, I. Rétorika a komunikace. Praha: Dokořán, 2015. ISBN 978-80-7363-712-5.


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University of Pardubice, date of update: 15.03.2026 23:50. Data created for academic year 2025/2026