Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language and Its Use II - ABO700102

• Title: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language and Its Use II
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication (21-UCJTK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2019
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Radek Šimík, Ph.D.; Mgr. Eva Lehečková, Ph.D.; doc. Mgr. Jan Chromý, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): doc. Mgr. Jan Chromý, Ph.D.; Mgr. Eva Lehečková, Ph.D.; doc. Mgr. Radek Šimík, Ph.D.
• Class: A - Mezioborová nabídka VP: Lingvistika; Exchange - 09.3 Linguistics
• Is pre-requisite for: ANL100006

Annotation

The aim of the course is to introduce the main interdisciplinary approaches in linguistics (mostly empirically or experimentally oriented). The course will integrate findings from sociolinguistics (language variation, language ideologies), and pragmatics.

Last update: Chromý Jan, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (06.02.2025)

Literature

Literature will be introduced during the semester.

Last update: Šimík Radek, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (18.02.2025)

Requirements to the exam

Credit requirements:

• completion of online Moodle tests;
• an in-class written exam, consisting of three types of tasks:
• a series of multiple-choice questions and
• one open question, both aimed at testing the knowledge and competences acquired in the course;
• an open question about a scientific article assigned 5 days prior to the exam.

Last update: Šimík Radek, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (17.03.2025)

Syllabus

The course will consist of short audio-commented presentations (approximately between 5-10 minutes long), tests, obligatory and voluntary readings, complementary materials and exercises.

Everything is accessible through Moodle (students signed in to the course will get the link to the course together with the password).

The topics for this semmester are:

Pragmatics I: Basic notions and topics (Radek Šimík)
Pragmatics II: Conversational implicatures (Radek Šimík)
Pragmatics III: Information structure (Radek Šimík)
Pragmatics IV: Questions, answers, alternatives (Radek Šimík)
Sociolinguistics I. Language stratification (Jan Chromý)
Sociolinguistics II. Language variation and accommodation (Jan Chromý)
Sociolinguistics III. Language ideologies (Jan Chromý)

Last update: Chromý Jan, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (06.02.2025)

Entry requirements

There are no entry requirements. Students who did not attend Approaches to Language and Its Use I. are welcome!

Last update: CHROJ1AF (20.01.2017)