NJ_SEM Semantics

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
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
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of the language system
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 10 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/10, only registered: 0/10, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/10
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 12 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The main goal is to understand the principals of the language sign and to gain knowledge about their types, further to understand the para- and syntagmatical relationships among the (contextbound) language signs.
Syllabus
  • Theory:
  • semiotics and semantics; semantics in the philology;
  • the language sign of de Saussura, Peirce and Jakobson;
  • signifé x signifiant (icony, index, symbol and subcategories);
  • paradigmatic and syntagmatic relationships on all levels (phonetic to text)
Literature
  • SCHWARZ-FRIESEL, Monika and Jeannette CHUR. Semantik :ein Arbeitsbuch. 3., unveränderte Aufl. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2001, 223 s. ISBN 3-8233-4951-1. info
  • POLENZ, Peter von. Deutsche Satzsemantik : Grundbegriffe des Zwischen-den-Zeilen-Lesens. 2., durchgesehene Aufl. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1988, 389 s. ISBN 3110119552. info
  • SAUSSURE, Ferdinand de. Kurs obecné lingvistiky. Edited by Albert Sechehaye - Charles Bally - Tullio De Mauro, Translated by Fran. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1989, 467 s. ISBN 8020700706. info
  • BREKLE, Herbert E. Semantik. Eine Einfuhrung in die sprachwissenschaftliche Bedeutungslehre. 3. vyd. Munchen: Fink, 144 s. ISBN 3-7705-1181-6. info
  • MUKAŘOVSKÝ, Jan. Básnická sémantika :univerzitní přednášky Praha - Bratislava. Edited by Miroslav Procházka. Vyd. 1. Praha: Karolinum, 1995, 172 s. ISBN 80-7066-735-4. info
  • ULLMANN, Stephen. Semantik :eine Einführung in die Bedeutungslehre. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 1973. ISBN 3-10-882901-7. info
Assessment methods
oral paper in a seminar (for topics see below)
Language of instruction
German
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2008, recent)
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