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Lecturer(s)
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Matušková Lenka, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Language and number of its users, world language, artificial language, basic terminology. Language, speech, sign, kinds of signs and their characteristics. Communication, language functions, basic terminology, semiotic disciplines. Language signs, its structure and characteristics according to F. Saussure. Semiotics. Basic linguistic disciplines. Structure of language (linguistics). Phonetics and phonology. Grammar, morphology, morpheme, parts of speech. Graphics, script. Spoken and written form of language. Grammatical categories of nouns and verbs. Syntax. Lexicology, word-formation processes. Revision - word-formation processes. Types of dictionaries. Semantics, semantic disciplines. Lexicon, lexicology, lexicography, lexical units, dictionaries. Syntax - introduction, definition of a sentence, types of questions, question and negation, sentence elements and their relationship. Syntax - functional sentence perspective, valence and generative syntax. Text and discourse, text factors, text linguistics. Typology, contrastive linguistics. Phases of development of linguistics since 19th century, movements, main principles and benefits, representatives - 19th century to today. Modern borderline linguistic disciplines. Modern borderline linguistic disciplines. Genetic and typological classification of languages.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
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Learning outcomes
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Presenting basic theoretical information of relevant fields of general linguistics, mainly from the area of psychology of language and its communicative functions, then a review in the specific area of developing directions of linguistics of the 20th century.
Students will orientate in the language structure, will gain segmentation analysis ability and its individual plans, they will gain knowledge of academic terminology, and will learn to work with linguistic literature.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Didactic test
Written test based on the lectured topics.
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Recommended literature
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BOK, V. Úvod do studia germanistiky. Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, 1995.
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ČEJKA, M., LOTKO, E. Jazyk a jazykověda I.Úvod do studia jazyka pro bohemisty. Olomouc, 1974.
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ČERMÁK, F. Jazyk a jazykověda. Pražská imaginace, 1994.
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ČERNÝ, J. Dějiny lingvistiky. Votobia, 1996.
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ČERNÝ, J., HOLEŠ, J. Sémiotika. Praha, 2004.
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ČERNÝ, J. Malé dějiny lingvistiky. Praha, 2005.
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ČERNÝ, J. Úvod do studia jazyka. Olomouc, 1998.
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ERHART, A. Základy jazykovědy. SPN, 1984.
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PALEK, B. Základy obecné jazykovědy. SPN, 1989.
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ŠIMEČKOVÁ, A. Úvod do studia jazykovědné germanistiky. Praha, 2004.
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VOREL, R. Úvod do studia anglického jazyka. Plzeň, 1994.
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