Approaches to Language and Its Use - ALINV456B

• Title: Approaches to Language and Its Use
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Linguistics (21-ULING)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: ABO700102
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Jan Chromý, Ph.D.; Mgr. Eva Lehečková, Ph.D.; doc. Mgr. Radek Šimík, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: doc. Mgr. Jan Chromý, Ph.D. (11.02.2021)

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), pragmatics and discourse analysis.

Literature

Last update: CHROJ1AF (20.01.2017)

Literature will be introduced during the semmester.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: doc. Mgr. Jan Chromý, Ph.D. (11.02.2021)

Written home exam

• five complex questions
• five days to write and submit the answers
• limited character count for each answer

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Eva Lehečková, Ph.D. (11.10.2021)

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)
Discourse analysis I. Critical discourse analysis (Eva Lehečková)
Discourse analysis II. Corpus-based discourse studies. (Eva Lehečková)
Discourse analysis III. Cognitive discourse studies. (Eva Lehečková)
Discourse analysis IV. Multimodal discourse analysis (Eva Lehečková)

Entry requirements

Last update: CHROJ1AF (20.01.2017)

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