AJ2RC_FUKS Functional and Communicative Syntax

Faculty of Education
Spring 2017
Extent and Intensity
0/0/12. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Martin Adam, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable
Fri 3. 3. 9:20–10:05 učebna 59, Fri 17. 3. 9:20–10:05 učebna 59, Fri 31. 3. 9:20–10:05 učebna 59, Fri 21. 4. 9:20–10:05 učebna 59, Fri 5. 5. 9:20–10:05 učebna 59, Fri 19. 5. 9:20–10:05 učebna 59
Prerequisites
Syntax A, Syntax B
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
Course objectives
The course presents the English grammar as a tool which enables users of English to achieve their purposes in communication and tries to help language learners to realise that grammar is used in a different way in spoken and written interaction and is further modified by the context of language use. Having completed the course, the students should be able to view language as a tool of communication in the society and to form texts that are functional. Throughout the semester students are encouraged to link theory in the classroom to practice at schools via practical tasks.
Syllabus
  • Session 1: Hypothetical Meaning. Fronting without Inversion.
  • Session 2: Fronting with subject-verb inversion. Fronting with subject-operator inversion.
  • Session 3: Extraposition of Clausal Subject. Passive Voice.
  • Session 4: Extraposition of Clausal Object. Postponement of the object.
  • Session 5: Other discontinuities. Cleft Sentences Proper.
  • Session 6: Pseudo-cleft sentences. Existential sentences.
Literature
    required literature
  • DONTCHEVA-NAVRATILOVA, Olga. Grammatical Structures in English: Meaning in Context. 2. přepracované vyd. Brno: Nakladatelství Masarykovy univerzity, 2005, 163 pp. ISBN 80-210-2477-1. info
    recommended literature
  • LEECH, Geoffrey N. and Jan SVARTVIK. A communicative grammar of English. 3rd ed. London: Longman, 2002, xiv, 440. ISBN 9780582506336. info
  • MCCARTHY, Michael. Discourse analysis for language teachers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, x, 213. ISBN 0521367468. info
  • COOK, Guy. Discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, xi, 167. ISBN 0194371409. info
Teaching methods
Teaching methods: classroom discussions, students' presentations, home assignments, observations.
Assessment methods
2-period seminar.
Home assignment and PPT presentations.
Final written credit test.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=143
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020.
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