N2MK_2TEX Linguistics of Discourse

Faculty of Education
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Káňa, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Káňa, Ph.D.
Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Helena Rytířová
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
Course objectives
The seminar presents the linguistic of discourse as a relatively new philology discipline and its aims, topics and possibilities of the text analysis. The most important goal of the seminar is the discussion about text structures. Their analysis enables better understanding of texts and in this way gives students a lead for writing coherent German texts. The description of texts is based on de Beaugrande's and Dressler's constitutive features and regulative principles of texts. The analyses are made exclusively on authentic German texts. The final part of the seminar focuses the cohesion and coherence of parallel Czech and German texts.
At the end of the course the students can analyse German texts from the text linguistic points of view (coherence, cohesion, discourse aims, intention, situation, intertextuality etc.), the can also assess various elements of the text cohesion and coherence and compare them with the Czech ones.
Syllabus
  • Linguistics of Discourse as a part of philology, its aims and goals Text and “texteme” (text invariant), definition of text, text and “non-text”
  • Constitutive and regulative principles of textuality
  • Cohesion and coherence
  • Description of cohesive and coherence elements in texts (recurrence, pro-form, deixeis…)
  • Pragmatic features of text: intentionality, informativity, situationality, intertuxtuality)
  • Boarders of acceptability
  • Cohesion and coherence in parallel texts
Literature
  • BRINKER, Klaus. Linguistische Textanalyse. Eine Einfuhrung in Grundbegriffe und Methoden. 2. vyd. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1988, 151 s. ISBN 3-503-02275-9. info
  • BEAUGRANDE, Robert-Alain. Einfuhrung in die Textlinguistik. Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1981, 290 s. ISBN 3-484-22028-7. info
  • BEAUGRANDE, Robert-Alain de and Wolfgang U. DRESSLER. Introduction to text linguistics. 1st publ. London: Longman, 1981, 270 s. : g. ISBN 0-582-55486-1. info
Teaching methods
discussion over text linguistic features of various texts; homework (reading relevant thesis, preparing for discussion - analysis of texts)
Assessment methods
a compete analysis of a German written text.
Language of instruction
German
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every other week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2012.
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