RSn066 Text and Discourse Analysis

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2022
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 10:00–11:40 B2.52
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 main goal of the course is to introduce students to the discipline, both by presenting and applying its conceptual apparatus and through analyzing specific texts. The course is primarily determined for the students of the translation fields so it is conceived as preparatory to treating texts within the translatorial profession. The keywords of the course will be ‘text function’ and ‘communicative purpose of the text’; texts will be analyzed in a manner allowing for basing the potential subsequent process of translation on functional approaches to translation (modern theory of skopos). Another emphasis of the course will be its contrastive orientation: texts sharing some con/textual parameters and differing in others will be compared and differences in genre conventions characterizing different cultures will be stressed in preparation for the process of translation. Students will be expected to prepare for the lessons throughout the semester; the preparation will consist in analyzing set texts, modifying texts based on set parameters, and searching for texts meeting set parameters.
Learning outcomes
After finishing the course, the student will be able:
- to identify genre/type of every text in Russian or in Czech and to classify to particular type of discourse;
- to execute elementary linguistic, stylistic and discursive analysis of Russian non-artistic and journalistic texts;
- to distinguish fine (authentic) and inferior (not authentic) non-artistic or journalistic text on a base of general analysis of the text and application of the knowledge of basic textuality criteria;
- to modify, as necessary, the source Russian/Czech text so that it will correspond to basic textual criteria.
Syllabus
  • 1. Disciplines dealing with analysis of text and discourse (text linguistics, analysis of discourse, critical analysis of discourse)
  • 2. Text and discourse (various concepts, definitions, differences)
  • 3. Conditions of textuality
  • 4. Situativity of a text
  • 5. Intertextuality of a text (quotation, paraphrase, direct–indirect speech)
  • 6. Intentionality of a text (in detail: types of texts, division of texts)
  • 7. Acceptability of a text
  • 8. Informativity of a text
  • 9. Coherence and cohesion of a text (definition, conception, differences, types, devices; lexical cohesion)
  • 10. Means of lexical text cohesion
Literature
    required literature
  • Tekst: teoretičeskije osnovanija i principy analiza. Sankt-Peterburg: Zlatoust, 2011.
    recommended literature
  • SCHNEIDEROVÁ, Soňa. Analýza diskurzu a mediální text. První vydání. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2015, 164 stran. ISBN 9788024628844. URL info
  • HOFFMANOVÁ, Jana. Stylistika a-- :současná situace stylistiky. 1. vyd. Praha: Trizonia, 1997, 200 s. ISBN 80-85573-67-9. 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
  • BROWN, Gillian and George YULE. Discourse analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, xii, 288. ISBN 0521284759. info
Teaching methods
Lecture, individual text analysis, class discussion.
Assessment methods
Continuous review of individual written assignments and their subsequent analysis and discussion at the seminar.
Exam: written test (theory + language and stylistic analysis of Russian texts).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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