NJP_TEX Linguistics of Discourse (lecture)

Faculty of Education
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 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
Supplier department: Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable
Fri 2. 3. 13:00–13:40 A55 učebna, Fri 9. 3. 13:00–13:40 A55 učebna, Fri 23. 3. 13:00–13:40 A55 učebna, Fri 13. 4. 13:00–13:40 A55 učebna, Fri 27. 4. 13:00–13:40 A55 učebna, Fri 11. 5. 13:00–13:40 A55 učebna
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
Abstract
The lecture presents the linguistic of discourse as a relatively new philology discipline and its aims, topics and possibilities of the text analysis. 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.
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.
Key topics
  • 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
Study resources and literature
    required 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
    recommended literature
  • 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
Approaches, practices, and methods used in teaching
lecture; reading theory
Method of verifying learning outcomes and course completion requirements
a discussion over a thesis on a text-linguistics topic
Language of instruction
German
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
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