CJVPOW Language and control (Who has power over the concepts?)

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024

The course is not taught in Autumn 2024

Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Taught partially online.
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lenka Hanovská, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PaedDr. Marta Holasová, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Dana Plíšková (assistant)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lenka Hanovská, Ph.D.
Language Centre Faculty of Arts Division – Language Centre
Contact Person: Mgr. Dana Plíšková
Supplier department: Language Centre Faculty of Arts Division – Language Centre
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
Course objectives
"I think we should all look at speech and language with much greater mistrust and less respect than we do because language is primarily a tool of oppression and categorization of things and people. So, it is important to doubt it." Blixa Bargeld, the famous singer, might know that his statement, declared in a public interview for Respect magazine in 2024, is not too distinct from the language-critical stances adopted by F. Nietzsche, M. Foucault, or other contemporary philosophers of post-modernity. In this course, we will explore philosophical theories that observe language critically, seeing it either as a tool of social and political oppression and control, or as a limit of human communication and thinking. The course does not only shed light on the critical "language theories," mostly from the ranks of post-modernism and post-structuralism, exploring the relation between subjectivity, communication, and control; it also leads students to take a critical and reflective stance towards their linguistic skills and language itself, its form, mechanisms, principles.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: every week.
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