PdF:A2BP_FUKS Functional Syntax - Course Information
A2BP_FUKS Functional and Communicative Syntax
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2013
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- A2BP_FUKS/01: Thu 9:20–11:00 učebna 10, O. Dontcheva-Navrátilová
- Prerequisites
- ( A2BP_PJ1B Practical Language 1B && A2BP_GR1B Grammar B && A2BP_SFFB Phonetics Seminar B ) || A2BP_SOZK Complex Exam
syntax A, synatx B - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Teacher Training in Foreign Languages - English Language (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to practice the communicative appproach in the study of English syntax using two strategies: a. the study of grammatical structures at sentence level with regards to their function as statements, questions, directives and exclamatives, b. the study of meaning in connected discourse (utterance level) - linking signals and constructions, word order and emphasis, functional sentence perspective etc. The course presents the English grammar as a tool which enables users of English to achieve their purposes in communication and tries to help language learners to realise that grammar is used in a different way in spoken and written interaction and is further modified by the context of language use. Students apply the knowledge gained in Syntax A and Syntax B courses and are able to put it into communicative and functional context. English grammar is thus viewed as a tool that enables them to achieve their particular communicative intentions and to interpret authentic English texts.
- Syllabus
- 1. Communicative syntax vs. normative syntax. Language in context. 2. Analysing language structures - giving information and expressing opinion. Functions of language. 3. Analysing language structures - expressing a point of view. Clauses with hypothetical meaning. 4. Analysing language structures - expressing mood and emotion. Discourse functions of sentences. 5. Analysing language structures - modality. Speech acts. The co-operative primciple and the principle of politeness. 6. Analysing language structures - linking signals and constructions. 7. Analysing language structures - referring expressions. Grammatical cohesion. 8. Presenting and focussing information. Spoken vs. written language. 9. Order and emphasis. Fronting. 10. Order and emphasis. Postponement. 11. Register variation - formal vs. informal, polite vs, familiar. 12. Dialect variation.
- Literature
- required literature
- DONTCHEVA-NAVRATILOVA, Olga. Grammatical Structures in English: Meaning in Context. 3. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012, 168 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-5762-3. info
- SVARTVIK, Jan and Geoffrey N. LEECH. A communicative grammar of English. 2nd ed. London: Longman, 1994, xiv, 423. ISBN 058208573X. info
- QUIRK, Randolph and Sidney GREENBAUM. A Student s Grammar of the English Language. 1. vyd. London: Longman, 1990, 490 s. ISBN 0-582-07569-6. info
- recommended literature
- THORNBURY, Scott. How to teach grammar. Harlow: Longman, 1999, ix, 182 s. ISBN 0-582-33932-4. info
- VACHEK, Josef. A functional syntax of modern English. Vydání 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1994, 50 stran. ISBN 8021008636. info
- TÁRNYIKOVÁ, Jarmila. Chapters from modern English syntax : (a communicative approach). Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 1993, 105 s. ISBN 8070672684. info
- COOK, Guy. Discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, xi, 167. ISBN 0194371409. info
- UR, Penny. Grammar practice activities : a practical guide for teachers. First published. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, viii, 288. ISBN 0521329442. info
- LEECH, Geoffrey N., M. (Margaret) DEUCHAR and Robert HOOGENRAAD. English grammar for today : a new introduction. London: Macmillan, 1982, xvi, 224 p. ISBN 0-333-30643-0. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, class discussions home assignments, compulsory reading.
- Assessment methods
- Teaching methods: classroom discussions, lectures, students' presentations, home assignments, home projects.
Continuous assessment based on presence and participation at seminars. A mid-term test (passmark 65%) + a credit test (passmark 65%) + oral exam. - Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually. - Teacher's information
- http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=143
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2013, recent)
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