PdF:FRN022 Ling. of Professional Texts - Course Information
FRN022 Linguistic Aspects of Professional Texts
Faculty of EducationSpring 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Tomáš Káňa, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Helena Hradílková (assistant)
Bc. Václav Kulich (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Tomáš Káňa, Ph.D.
Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Supplier department: Department of Russian Language and Literature – Faculty of Education (30,00 %), Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education (40,00 %), Department of French Language and Literature – Faculty of Education (30,00 %) - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- SOUHLAS
- 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
- Foreign Language Teaching in Vocational Education (programme PdF, C-CV)
- Course objectives
- The course provides a comprehensive overview of linguistics, adds new aspects to the knowledge acquired in earlier studies (e.g. emphasis on "formulaic language"), and extracts from the individual plans aspects relevant to the language of professional texts. It also introduces the typical linguistic features of different types of professional texts and compares
- Learning outcomes
- The person who has compelted this course:
- can describe the levels of linguistic structures and their basic units
- can identify the type of text according to its macro and micro features
- distinguish between different functional styles
- can characterise the style of professional texts
- can spot in professional texts language means typical for the given type of text. - Syllabus
- 1. Linguistics, its subject matter and text/discourse as a basic/input unit
- 2. Linguistic plans: text, style
- 3. Language plans: vocabulary
- 4. Language plans: sentence, word and its forms
- 5 .Language plans in general: meaning, nonmeaning and suprasegmental units of language, pragmatic elements (abbreviations, symbols, etc.)
- 6. Style of technical texts and their text types
- 7. Qualitative (FVG) and quantitative (nominalization...) features of professional texts
- 8. Types of texts and their comparison (length, difficulty)
- 9. Chosig a propper texts for a classroom (timelessness)
- 10. Summary and discussion of the literature
- 12. Final summary of the course (relevance, difficulty, possibilities for change)
- Literature
- Nový encyklopedický slovník češtiny. Edited by Petr Karlík - Marek Nekula - Jana Pleskalová. První vydání. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2016, 1092 stran. ISBN 9788074224812. info
- ČERMÁK, František. Jazyk a jazykověda : přehled a slovníky. Vydání 4., v Karolinu 2.,. Praha: Karolinum, 2011, 380 stran. ISBN 9788024619460. info
- Teaching methods
- reading, discussions to literature; individual research
- Assessment methods
- test (questions on levels of linguistic structures - 50 pts., 50%); colloquium (oral group interview on specific texts = 50 pts., 50%), pass mark: 60% (60 pts.)
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin konzultací.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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