CJJ17 Linguistic Seminar

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/1/2. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. Mgr. Pavel Kosek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Klára Osolsobě, Dr. (lecturer)
Mgr. Michaela Boháčová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Martin Březina (seminar tutor)
prof. Radek Čech, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Michal Starke, Docteur es Lettres (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Markéta Ziková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. Mgr. Pavel Kosek, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Silvie Hulewicz, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
Only for students of the specialization Czech studies from the linguistic point of view.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
CJJ17 Linguistic Seminar, Pt. 1 as well as the following course CJJ18 Linguistic Seminar, Pt. 2 is a key subject of the specialization Czech studies from the linguistic point of view. Its aim is to introduce students to the sphere of independent scholarly work: it is a platform on which teachers, M.A. and Ph.D. students of philological programmes (specializations) and invited foremost experts from the Czech Republic and from abroad meet. Discussing specific linguistic issues, students are gradually acquainted with elementary skills of linguistic work.
Learning outcomes
Having participated in the course, students will be able:
- to participate in a scholarly debate,
- to analyze scholarly sources critically,
- to identify an object of a linguistic analysis and to apply an adequate methodology for the purpose of the analysis,
- to present a suggestion of a linguistic project and to defend it in a scholarly debate.
Syllabus
  • Teaching is organized within three groups corresponding to three key areas of research conducted at the Department of Czech Language:
  • 1. synchronic linguistics,
  • 2. diachronic linguistics,
  • 3. corpus and computer linguistics.
  • Various topics are discussed in seminars depending on the specialization of the individual students and on the current research taking place at the Department of Czech Language.
Literature
  • The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Eds. Keith Brown et al. 2nd edition. Elsevier 2005.
  • PLESKALOVÁ, Jana - KARLÍK, Petr - KRČMOVÁ, Marie - VEČERKA, Radoslav (eds.). Kapitoly z dějin české jazykovědné bohemistiky. Praha: Academia, 2007. ISBN 978-80-200-1523-5.
  • Nový encyklopedický slovník češtiny. Edited by Petr Karlík - Marek Nekula - Jana Pleskalová. První vydání. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2016, Strana 110. ISBN 9788074224829. info
  • CRYSTAL, David. The Cambridge encyclopedia of language [Crystal, 1997]. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, vii, 480 s. ISBN 0-521-55050-5. info
Teaching methods
Theoretical preparations, lectures, discussions, presentations and project preparations.
Assessment methods
Requirements to complete the course successfully: 1. regular participation, 2. continuous preparatory work (reading English written linguistic texts and doing the homework), 3. a written form of a linguistic research project (in the extent of at least ten pages).
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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