UzNJII_652 Introduction to the German Linguistics II

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Anna Marie Halasová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Anna Marie Halasová, Ph.D.
Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to understand and explain these items:; the German phonetics and phonology; classification of the parts of speech in German (according to semantic, morphological and syntactic aspects); the basis of the morphology; the basis of the word formation; the basis of the lexicology and semantics; the theory of the text (discource) and textual analysis; pragmatics in the linguistics.
Syllabus
  • Basic items:
  • disciplines of the linguistics
  • german phonetics and phonology
  • parts of speech
  • morphology: lexical and gramatical morphemes, inflection
  • word formation: basic morphemes, word formation morphemes, affixes, compound, agglutination, conversion, types of abbriviations
  • syntax: theory of syntax and syntactic decomposition, phrases (parts of the sentence), verb valence, sentence, simple sentence, sentence patterns, compound sentence, complex sentence
  • lexicology ans semantics: sem, semems, meaning, denotation, connotation homonymy, antonymy, paronymy, prototype theory
  • theory of the text (discource), coherence, cohesion, deictic, anaphoric and cataphoric elements, presupposition
  • pragmatics, speech act, illocutionary act, locutionary act, perllocutionary act, indirect speech acts, J.L. Austin, J.L. Searle.
Literature
  • Grammatik der deutschen Gegenwartssprache (Variant.) : Duden : Grammatik der deutschen Gegenwartssprache [1998]. info
  • KÖNIG, W.: dtv-Atlas Deutsche Sprache, ISBN: 3-423-03025.9
  • BERGMANN, Rolf, Peter PAULY and Stefanie STRICKER. Einführung in die deutsche Sprachwissenschaft. Edited by Ursula Götz. 3., überarbeitete und erw. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2001, xi, 244. ISBN 382531149X. info
  • GROSS, Harro. Einführung in die germanistische Linguistik. 2. Aufl. München: Iudicium Verlag, 1990, 268 s. ISBN 3-89129-240-6. info
  • SEARLE, John R. Expression and meaning : studies in the theory of speech acts. 1st pbk. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985, xiv, 187. ISBN 0521313937. info
  • COSERIU, Eugenio. Textlinguistik : eine Einführung. Edited by Jörn Albrecht. 2., durchgesehene Aufl. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1981, ix, 178. ISBN 387808109X. info
  • AUSTIN, J. L. How to do things with words : the William James lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1955. London: Oxford University Press, 1971, vii, 166. ISBN 0198812345. info
Assessment methods
lectures, class discussion, homeworks final written test
Language of instruction
German
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2010.
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