CJp419 Spoken Czech

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2016

The course is not taught in Autumn 2016

Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Ivana Kolářová, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jana Marie Tušková, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Petra Rozbořilová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
Course objectives
The subject is focused to the characteristic marks of contemporary spoken Czech in various communicative situation and in accordance with regional lingual customs or in accordance with the customs of social group or with the age of the speakers. The students will get acquainted with the authentic spoken texts studying records of them and they will identify special sound (vowel- and consonantal) and grammatical marks that differ the variety of the spoken language in various regions and standard and non-standard speech.
After finishing the subject/course students are able to:
- explain the differences between written and spoken text and connection of the texts and communicative situation;
- distinguish standard and non-standard spoken texts and colloquial Czech and non-standard (vernacular or slang) speech;
- to evaluated non-cultivated and non-standard speech of pupils and to explain why the standard Czech is needed in formal speech and in formal situation.
Syllabus
  • 1. Communication, communicative situation. Spoken and written texts. Prepared and unprepared spoken texts in various communicative situation.
  • 2. Czech language in its variety. Standard Czech and its stylis variety. Colloquial Czech as a stylish variant of the standard Czech.
  • 3. Dialects and interdialects of Czech language today. Sound and morphological structura of the dialects. Dialect in everyday communication and in the literary texts.
  • 4. Common Czech. Sound (vowel and consonantal) and morphological structure of the common Czech. Common Czech in contemporary communication.
  • 5. Social variety structur of the Czech language in contemporary communication. Slang and "professional speech (professional lexicon)" in concurence with the standard Czech and with the terminology (nomenclature).
  • 6. Dichotomy of standard and non-standard Czech in the spoken texts. The "usually" spoken Czech / everyday spoken Czech in accordance with the regional origin of the speaker.
  • 7. Identification of the vernacular lexicon, identification of vowels and consonants and grammatical structure of dialects and of common Czech in the records of spoken texts.
  • 8. Sentential structure of the spoken texts. Characteristic sentential structure of the spoken texts compare to the written texts: (a)aditionall structures in the end of sentence, correcture of the utterance; (b) repetition of the words and structures, paralelles, stereotyps of structure.
  • 9. Sentential structure of the spoken texts. (a) aditionall structures with the "preparative" function, filling words; (b) unfinished/incomplete sentences.
  • 10. Monolog and dialog. Structure of dialog. Contact words and the function of them.
  • 11. Speaking and cultivation of speech.
  • 12. Characteristic marks of spoken Czech in the teaching Czech as a foreign language.
Literature
  • VOJTOVÁ, Jarmila. Mluva Čechů v cizině (Language of Czechs abroad). In Rusinová, Eva. Přednášky a besedy z XLIX. běhu LŠSS. Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2016, p. 238-244, 6 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-8207-6. info
  • SVOBODOVÁ, Hana. Poznámky ke stratifikaci českého jazyka. (Notes to the stratification of the Czech language.). In Přednášky a besedy ze XLIX. ročníku LŠSS. Brno: Kabinet českého jazyka a literatury FF MU Brno, 2016, p. 217-225. ISBN 978-80-210-8207-6. info
  • MARTINEC, Ivo. Nespisovné útvary a stylové rozvrstvení v rámci výuky češtiny jako cizího jazyka na zahraničních školách (Substandard units and stylish layering in teaching Czech as a foreign language at foreign schools). In Klímová, Květoslava; Kolářová, Ivana; Tušková, Jana Marie. Stylistika v kontextu historie a současnosti. 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013, p. 249-254. ISBN 978-80-210-6114-9. info
  • Čeština v mluveném korpusu. Edited by Marie Kopřivová - Martina Waclawičová. Vyd. 1. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2008, 273 s. ISBN 9788071069829. info
  • Čeština v dialogu generací. Edited by Jana Hoffmannová - Olga Müllerová. Vydání první. Praha: Academia, 2007, 455 stran. ISBN 9788020015495. info
  • HOFFMANNOVÁ, Jana, Olga MÜLLEROVÁ and Jiří ZEMAN. Konverzace v češtině při rodinných a přátelských návštěvách. 1st ed. Praha: Trizonia, 1999, 256 pp. ISBN 80-85573-71-7. info
  • MÜLLEROVÁ, Olga, Jana HOFFMANNOVÁ and Eva SCHNEIDEROVÁ. Mluvená čeština v autentických textech. Vyd. 1. Jinočany: H & H, 1992, 236 s. ISBN 80-85467-96-8. info
  • České nářeční texty. Edited by Arnošt Lamprecht - Věra Lamprechtová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1976, 425 s. URL info
Teaching methods
Lecture with the illustrative presentation.
Collective analysis of the records of spoken texts. Individual works with the records of spoken Czech.
Individual study of the linguistic literature.
Assessment methods
Oral examination.
(a)Student shall be able to present theoretical knowledge on the spoken Czech and on its differentiation (regional, social). There are themes of the examination in the syllabus.
(b) Student shall be able to analyse records of spoken texts from sound (vowel and consonantal), morphological and sentential points of view and to identify a shortcoming concerning the cultivated speech.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, autumn 2020, Autumn 2021.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2016, recent)
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