Introduction to Linguistics
                                           (ZJAZ course)



                                            Martin Adam



                                 Brno, Intensive Session 12-IX-08

Teacher

n  Mgr. Martin Adam, Ph.D.

–      Office hours:

•       Mon 9:45-10:30

•       Tue 10:45-11:30

–      E-mail: martinadamcz@yahoo.com

–      Other courses:

•       Normative Syntax, Functional Syntax, Text Analysis, FSP, Phonetics

„Soustředění“

n  Why the intensive session?

–      4 lessons today

•       this PP presentation will be available at IS

–      2 more single lessons in the semester

•       Groups A+C:   19.9. + 7.11.

                   (teacher absent on 3.10.and 24.10.; chance to

                   shift Phonetics???)

•       Group B:          26.9. +17.10.

n  Credit Test

•       Groups A+C:   21.11.

•       Group B:          14.11.







Sources

n  The principal study material (reference was sent by email):



    Josef Hladký (2006):

    Úvod do studia anglického jazyka

•       Text proper (Czech and English parts)

•       Glossary of Linguistic Terms





Moodlinka

•       E-learning support

•       details – M. Němec; preview now

•       Title of the course:

   Úvod do studia jazyka

•       Address:

   http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=941

•       Password (login): ‚hladky‘

–     all necessary sources (incl. the book)

–     mock questions (~ Credit Test)

–     extra materials (websites etc.)

Procedure

n  6 contact lessons per semester

n  Self-study!!!

n  Required:

–      Reading the whole book

–      Knowing selected issues from the book (Moodlinka + teacher‘s talk)

–      Reading the whole Glossary

–      Knowing the selected itmes (Moodlinka)







                                           Questions???



Session 1 (pp. 1-10)

n  Language; philology

n  duality

n  3 characteristic features of language

•       Sign nature

•       Functional approach

•       Language is a system

n  sign types (icon, index, symbol)

n  language functions (reference, expressive...)





n  why is linguistics a science

n  language description

•       Phonetics and Phonology

•       Morphology

•       Syntax

•       Lexicology and Lexicography

•       Etymology etc.



n  translating Shakespeare

•       only main representatives!

Session 2 (pp. 11-18)

n  V. E. Mourek

n  V. Mathesius

n  Prague School of Linguistics

n  B. Trnka; O. Vočadlo; I. Poldauf

n  J. Vachek

n  J. Firbas

–      handout "Prague School of Linguistics" (see Moodlinka)



n  Historický vývoj angličtiny

–      (Celts, Gothic)

–      OE     (7 century - 1100)

•       Anglo-Saxon (Germanic)

•       Latin influence

–      ME     (1100-1500)

•       Skandinavian influence

•       Norman (Central French influence)

–      ENE   (1500-1650)

                                        (+ handout with texts)



n  Spisovná vs. nespisovná angličtina







                                      Let’s have a break :o)

Session 3 (pp. 19-24)

–      main features of regional varieties of English

•       Scottish

•       Irish

•       Canadian

•       American

•       Caribbean

•       Australian

•       South African

–      differences between Pidgin and Creole



Session 4 (pp. 25-35)

n  a general outline of basic English and Czech dictionaries

•       Noah Webster

n  their types

•       etymological, pictorial dictionaries, dictionaries of false friends or idioms )

n  Grammars





Origin of language

–      Herder and his beliefs

–      Hockett

•       blending

•       duality

–      man - a social creature; brain, organs of speech; ear

–      human language

•       arbitrariness, creativity, displacement, reflexiveness, prevarication

–      basic data on Indo-European

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HOMEWORK:

   - Read all today‘s material and study the assigned issues

   - Read the Glossary and study the assigned items



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See you on 19.9. (A+C) and 26.9. (B)