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Introduction to English linguistics - seminar - AAA130034
Title: Cvičení k lingvistické propedeutice
Guaranteed by: Department of the English Language and ELT Methodology (21-UAJD)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2021
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/1, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / 60 (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=657
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: PhDr. Gabriela Brůhová, Ph.D.
Mgr. Ondřej Tichý, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Barbora Bulantová
Mgr. Veronika Raušová, Ph.D.
Interchangeability : AAA130030
Is interchangeable with: AAA130031
Annotation -
The seminar extends the Introduction to English Linguistics lecture. The students will learn to analyze and master phenomena of several linguistic fields (see the syllabus), using practical examples.
The seminar consists of six 90-minute study blocks (for exact dates of the seminar, see the timetable).
Last update: Paštěka Václav, Mgr. (15.09.2021)
Course completion requirements -

Requirements

  • participation

               Attendance is compulsory, max 1 absence per semester is allowed. Any additional absence during the pandemic must be remedied by additional work by individual arrangement with the course instructor.

  • reading an introductory text to each topic (to be done prior to each seminar session)
  • on-line excercises in moodle (to be done within a week after each seminar session)
  • seminar paper (topics to be chosen in Moodle)

All requirements need to be met by the end of the exam period of the academic year in which the student enrolled for the subject. Violation of the requirements will result in failing the course.

Last update: Bulantová Barbora, Mgr. (19.09.2023)
Literature -

Essential literature:

Crystal, D. (1995) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Čermák, F. (2011, 2. vyd.) Jazyk a jazykověda. Přehled a slovníky. Praha: Karolinum.

Černý, J. (1998) Úvod do studia jazyka. Olomouc: Rubico.

Dušková, L. (1994 ) Mluvnice současné angličtiny na pozadí češtiny, Academia - kap. 1 Morfologie (str. 15-22).

Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman and Nina Hyams (2011, 9th edition) An Introduction to Language. Boston: Wadsworth.

Plag, I., Arndt-Lappe, S., Braun, M., & Schramm, M. (2015). Introduction to English linguistics. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.

Yule, George (2014, 5. vyd.) The Study of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Supplementary literature:

Biber, D., Conrad, S., Leech, G. (2002) Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English, Longman.

Crystal, D. (2010) A Little Book of Language. Sydney: UNSW Press.

Culpeper, J. et al. (eds) (2009) English Language. Description, Variation and Context. Palgrave Macmillan.

Mathesius, V. (2001) Nebojte se angličtiny, H&H.

Leech, G. (2006) A Glossary of English Grammar, Edinburgh University Press.

MacArthur, T., (1996) The Oxford Companion to the English Language Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mair, Ch. (2008) English Linguistics. An Introduction. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.

Mathesius, V. (1961) Obsahový rozbor současné angličtiny na základě obecně lingvistickém, ČSAV.

Nosek, J. (1991) Grafika moderní angličtiny, Karolinum UK.

Trudgill, P., J. Hannah, J. (1994, 3rd ed.) International English. A Guide to Varieties of Standard English, Arnold.

Last update: Paštěka Václav, Mgr. (15.09.2021)
Syllabus -

Topics:

1. English Morphology - morpheme, allomorph, word structure, word classes

2. English Syntax - phrase level, simple sentence, clause elements, multiple sentence

3. Lexicology - word formation (derivation, composition, back formation, blending, shortening, conversion)

4. Lexicology - lexical semantics (paradigmatic relations: synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, meronymy, and syntagmatic relations: collocation)

5. Varieties of English - dialects, regional varieties, register

6. Spoken and written English - English spelling, grapheme-phoneme correspondence

Last update: Paštěka Václav, Mgr. (15.09.2021)
 
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