Segmental and suprasegmental phonology, English and Czech phonetic systems System of English vowels and consonants, word stress and sentence stress, intonation The letter-phoneme correspondence in Modern English Morphological structure and categories of word-classes in Modern English comparison with Czech Grammatical categories of nouns and verbs Structure and syntactic functions of individual phrases Verb forms and their function in syntactic condensation comparison with Czech Syntactic categories of verbs and their complementation Communicative functions of sentences, compound and complex sentences Grammatical, semantic and FSP functions of word order comparison with Czech Prague School Linguistic Schools and their approaches to language study (comparative, structural, functional, generative) Characteristic features of the English vocabulary, foreign influences on the English lexis Word-formation processes, categories and causes of semantic change Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations within the vocabulary, multi-word units and set expressions Criteria and methods of stylistic analysis Textual style markers, text typology, degree of formality Distinctive features of individual functional styles (scientific, journalistic, advertising, administrative, etc.) Conversation analysis, pragmatic markers Modality, hedging and vagueness Reference and deixis, implicatures Speech acts theory, Grice's Cooperative Principle, Relevance Theory Politeness principle and politeness strategies Relation of language and society, speech communities, varieties, regional and social dialects Language as a code: diglossia, bilingualism and multilingualism. Functions of lingua franca. Gender in discourse Historical linguistics, English in Indo-European context Major changes from Old English to Middle English, from Middle English to Modern English Recent development and changes, territorial and social stratification of English Cohesion, coherence and multi-modality Discourse patterns and relations, intertextuality Corpus linguistics, types of corpora, their design and structure
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