CJ2RC_JVCJ Development of Standard Czech

Faculty of Education
Spring 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/0/8. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Hana Svobodová, Dr. phil. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Ivana Kolářová, CSc.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Petra Rozbořilová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
CJ2RC_JVCJ/OS01: Fri 19. 3. 8:00–11:50 učebna 6, Fri 16. 4. 8:00–9:50 učebna 6, Fri 30. 4. 8:00–9:50 učebna 6, H. Svobodová
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
Students will learn about the function of the written language, its cultural and civilization roles, understand the tendency to expand and narrow the differences between the standard language and interdialects. They can explain the main language features of Czech at different stages of its development. Students will be able to apply the acquired knowledge in teaching Czech for pupils with a different mother tongue.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the students will be able: 1 – to name the main linguistic features of Czech in different periods of its development from the beginnings up to the National Revival ; 2 – to characterize the different orthographical/grammatical systems of Czech from the oldest periods up to the contemporary language.
Syllabus
  • 1 Study of the so-called external history of literary Czech language. 2 Literary languages on our territory before the origins of literature written in the Czech language. Latin and Old Church Slavonic literature The Chronica Bohemorum by Cosmas of Prague, Old Church Slavonic legends and others. 3 Czech in the 12th and 13th centuries. The first legal and literary texts. Graphic realization of the first Czech texts. Difficulties of the primitive orthography. 4 Evolution of Czech in the 14th century. Old Czech manuscripts and their stylistic differentiation. Vocabulary of the Czech language as a reflection of the social situation. Old Czech syntax. 5 Old Czech dictionaries. Klaret and his company. Vocabulary in Klarets dictionaries. Jan Hus and his contribution to the Czech language. 6 The advanced Czech language of the humanistic epoch, its stylistic differentiation. Syntactic characterization of the humanistic manuscripts. 7 Grammar works of the 16th century. The Grammar of Náměšť. Jan Blahoslav. Dictionaries. 8 The period after the battle of White Mountain and the problems of its evaluation. The so-called Baroque Czech, the Baroque literary manuscripts. The Czech grammar books of the 17th and 18th centuries. 9 J. Dobrovský and his linguistic work. Language codifications. J. Jungmann work. 10 Language codification in the period of purification of the 19th century. The so-called Matice Purifications. Creation of period special terminology. 11 The care of the literary language at the end of the 19th century and in the half of the 20th century (J. Gebauer, V. Ertl). The Prague linguistic school and its representatives. 12 Czech studies and their development in the second half of the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st century. The important representatives B. Havránek, A. Jedlička, V. Šmilauer, F. Kopečný, F. Daneš and others.
Literature
    required literature
  • HAVRÁNEK, Bohuslav: Vývoj spisovného jazyka českého. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1979
  • KOSEK, Pavel. Historická mluvnice češtiny - překlenovací seminář (Historical Grammar of Czech - bridging seminar). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, 112 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6974-9. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
  • CUŘÍN, František. Vývoj spisovné češtiny. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1985, 180 s. URL info
  • ŠLOSAR, Dušan and Radoslav VEČERKA. Spisovný jazyk v dějinách české společnosti. 2. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1982, 142 pp. info
    recommended literature
  • Vývoj odborných zájmů o češtinu. Edited by Radoslav Večerka. Vyd. 1. Brno: Univerzita J.E. Purkyně, 1988, 140 s. info
  • U základů pražské jazykovědné školy. Edited by Josef Vachek. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1970, 81 s. URL info
Teaching methods
A lecture combined with subsequent discussions on the professional issues of the course.
Assessment methods
For a successful completion of the course, the students should complete a written test, where they freely formulate their answers and questions. The test is scored. Detailed requirements are available in each term in Study Materials of the course in the Information System MU, the folder Learning Materials.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Information on completion of the course: Předpokladem pro absolvování předmětu je úspěšné ukončení předmětu CJ2RC_JHMC - Historická mluvnice českého jazyka.
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 8 hodin v semestru.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2009, Spring 2010, Autumn 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023.
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