UzNJII_57 German Linguistic of the 19th Century

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Anna Marie Halasová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Anna Marie Halasová, Ph.D.
Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
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
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Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to: read and understand chosen extracts from papers of famous linguists writing in 19th and 20th century; short extracts from these papers translate into Czech; oral presentation on the basis of keywords.
Syllabus
  • The Origin of language
  • Etienne Bonnot de Condillac: "Versuch über den Ursprung der menschlichen Erkenntnis"
  • Johann Gottfried Herder: "Abhandlung über den Ursprung der Sprache"
  • Rudi Keller: "Sprachwandel"
  • The Romantic Linguistics
  • Wilhelm von Schlegel: "Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier"
  • Jacob Grimm: "Deutsche Grammatik"
  • Wilhel von Humboldt: "Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaus und ihren Einfluss auf die geistige Entwicklung des Menschengeschlechts"
  • The doorway to the Natural science
  • Augus Schleicher: "Die Darwinsche Theorie und die Sprachwissenschaft - offenes Sendschreiben an Herrn Dr. Ernst Haeckel"
  • The German studies in the first part of the 20th century
  • Jost Trier: "Der deutsche Wortschatz im Sinnbezirk des Verstandes"
  • Walter Portzig: "Das Wunder der Sprache"
  • The Structuralism on the German studies
  • Nikolaj S. Trubetzkoy: "Grundzüge der PhonologieÖ (Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague. 7)
  • Roman Ossipowitsch Jakobson: "Form und Sinn. Sprachwissenschaftliche Betrachtungen"
  • Gerhard Helbig: "Geschichte der neueren Sprachwissenschaft"
Literature
  • Arens, Hans. Sprachwissenschaft [Arens 1969 ]. Freiburg/München: Verlag Karl Alber, 1969
  • COSERIU, Eugenio. Geschichte der Sprachphilosophie : von den Anfängen bis Rousseau. Edited by Jörn Albrecht. Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag, 2003, xxii, 410. ISBN 3825222667. info
  • HELBIG, Gerhard. Geschichte der neueren Sprachwissenschaft : unter dem besonderen Aspekt der Grammatik-Theorie. Leipzig: VEB Bibliographisches Institut, 1976. info
Assessment methods
lectures, class discussion, student presentations oral examination (colloquium)
Language of instruction
German
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007.
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