OJ446 Stilistics and poetics

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2004
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Marie Krčmová, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Marie Krčmová, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 8:20–9:55 10
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
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Course objectives
The lecture will focus on the main theoretical concepts of modern Czech stylistics, such as the position of stylistics among other linguistic disciplines, the relation between style and language, stylistic factors, main functional styles, stylistic markedness/unmarkedness at various levels of language and other related topics.
Syllabus
  • Czech stylistics - lecture Style, its definitions. Permanent communicative factors and their influence on stylization of texts. Subjective and objective stylistic factors. Possibilities of differentiation of styles on the basis of generalized stylistic factors. Horizontal and vertical stratification of styles. Function of texts as the principal objective stylisitc factor. Theory of functional styles. Traditionaol concepts of the functional styles theory - stylistic sphere, stylistic type and stylistic layer. Functional styles in Czech; development of the system of functional styles since the 1930s. Rekationships among the individual stylistic spheres. Composition of texts. Stylistic procedures and their characteristic features. Typical genres in the individual stylistic spheres. Coherence and cohesion of the text. Horizontal and vertical stratification of texts. Stylemes. Types of stylemes. Automated and foregrounded usage of means of expression. Markedness on the individual grammatical level of language. Markedness of lexical items. Technical functional style, its stylistic norms. Differentiation of stylistic norms within the technical functional style. Administrative functional style, its stylistic norms. Differentiation of stylistic norms within the administrative functional style. Journalistic functional style, its stylistic norms. Differentiation of stylistic norms within the journalistic texts. Colloquial functional style, its stylistic norms. Problems of using the means of expression of the colloquial style in fiction. Rhetorical style, its stylistic norms. Differentiation of style within rhetorical texts. Literary functional style, differentiation of its means of expression. Problems of authors' language and style.
Literature
  • MINÁŘOVÁ, Eva, Marie KRČMOVÁ, Jan CHLOUPEK and Marie ČECHOVÁ. Současná česká stylistika (Stylistics of the Contemporary Czech Language). 1st ed. Praha: ISV nakladatelství, 2003, 342 pp. none. ISBN 80-86642-00-3. info
  • JELÍNEK, Milan. Příruční mluvnice češtiny. (A Reference Grammar of the Czech Language.). Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 1996. ISBN 80-7106-134-4. info
  • BEČKA, Josef Václav. Česká stylistika. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1992, 467 s. ISBN 8020000208. info
  • Další odbornou literaturu tvoří práce o stylistice v nejrůznějších jazycích světa.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Předmět se ukončuje zkouškou. Má část písemnou - samostatný stylistický rozbor textu, který je nutno odevzdat nejpozději 10 pracovních dní před zkouškou, a rozhovor o rozboru, při němž se zároveń ověří znalost pojmosloví oboru a schopnost s ním samostatně pracovat.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://www.phil.muni.cz/jazyk/krcmova
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