EUJAZ Introduction to the study of language

Prague City Vysoká Škola
zima 2023
Rozsah
2/0/0. 3 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Starý, CSc. (přednášející)
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
The goal of the course is to outline notional framework applied in commonly in linguistic texts and language descriptions the students encounter in their study of foreign language (English). The course starts from core ideas of semiotics, illustrates them on linguistic as well as non-linguistic material, and then turns to fundamental notions of phonology, morphology, lexicology and syntax to conclude with presentation of theories that reach outside of traditional language structure.
Výstupy z učení
Active knowledge of notions and terms used for language description. Ability to apply these notional tools to language. Functions of language and reflection of place of language in society.
Osnova
1. Languages as a semiotic system 2. Sign: sign vs. figure, elementary vs. compound signs, types of signs. 3. Infinitesimal world and „small“ language: reduction mechanisms of language 4. Semiosis and its dimensions: syntactics, semantics, pragmatics 5. Phoneme and core idea of phonology. Phoneme, allophones, distinctive features, privative opposition. 6. Morphology: morpheme, (allo)morphs, kinds of morphemes. Affixation vs. reduplication. 7. Word. Morphological typology of languages. 8. Syntax: dependency syntax, immediate constituent structure (syntax) 9. Transformation. 10. Langue vs. parole (Language vs. Speech), postulates of linguistics. 11. Synchrony vs. Diachrony, genealogical classification of languages. 12. Functions of languages. 13. Language, thought, society – beyond the structural linguistics framework.
Metody hodnocení
Written homeworks. Active participation in class. Written final test – the test focuses on basic notions introduced in the course and students‘ ability to apply them to language data.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
Literature Aitchinson, Jean, Linguistics, Hodder Hendline Publishing, London, 1999 Cipollone, Nick, Hartman Keiser, Steven, Vasishth, Shravan: Language Files, The Ohio State University, 1999 Hockett, Charles F., A course in Moderns Linguistics, The Macmillan Company, 1958 Hudson, Grove, Essential Introductory Linguistics, Blackwell, 2000 Jakobson, Roman: Quest for the essence of language, Selected Writings II, Mouton 1971 McGregor, William B.: Linguistics, An Introduction, Continuum, 2009 Saussure, Ferdinand de: Course in General Linguistics, translation Roy Harris, Open Court, La Salle, Illinois, 1989
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