CJc522 Dialectology

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/.7. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Synchronous online teaching
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
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 and understand basic dialectological concepts, gain knowledge about the dialectal diversity of the Czech language and the tasks of contemporary Czech dialectology. During their own field research and in the processing of the dialectal material they learn the methods of dialectological work.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student will be able to: 1. understand basic dialectological concepts; 2. distinguish dialectal areas and gain an overview of the dialectal diversity of the Czech language 3. understand the tasks of Czech dialektology.
Syllabus
  • Block 1: Definition of basic terms: traditional territorial dialect, interdialect, common speech, wave theory, linguistic geography, language atlas, language map. Dialectological research and methods of dialectological work. Dialectological transcription of dialect records. Block 2: Dialectal differentiation of the Czech language. Dialect groups, subgroups, types and marginal sections. Basic differential dialectal features of Czech and Moravian and their diachronic interpretation. Czech language atlas. Block 3: Czech dialects in the narrower sense, Central Moravian dialects: features, sound samples, developmental tendencies. Block 4: East Moravian and Silesian dialects: features, sound samples, developmental tendencies.
Literature
    required literature
  • CUŘÍN, František. Vývoj českého jazyka a dialektologie : učebnice pro pedagogické fakulty. 4. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1977, 209 s. URL info
  • České nářeční texty. Edited by Arnošt Lamprecht - Věra Lamprechtová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1976, 425 s. URL info
  • BĚLIČ, Jaromír. Nástin české dialektologie. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1972, 463 s. info
    recommended literature
  • HLADKÁ, Zdeňka. Český jazykový atlas přechází od lexika ke tvarosloví. (recenze) (Czech Language Atlas shifting from vocabulary to morphology (a review)). Naše řeč. Praha: Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, 2003, vol. 86, No 1, p. 41-43. ISSN 0027-8203. info
  • KRČMOVÁ, Marie. Český jazykový atlas I. (Czech Language Atlas I.). Vlastivědný věstník moravský. Brno: Muzejní a vlastivědná společnost v Brně, 1994, vol. 46, No 3, p. 300-302. ISSN 0323-2581. info
  • BALHAR, Jan and Pavel JANČÁK. Český jazykový atlas. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1992, 427 s. ISBN 8020000135. info
Teaching methods
Students' active analytical work in understanding the diversity of dialectal areas; students' active synthetic work in acquiring dialectal material and learning the methods of dialectological work. Face-to-face participation in online classes will be preferred.
Assessment methods
For successful completion of the course, the following is required: 1. active participation in the seminar; 2. submission/presentation of a seminar paper/resume on the assigned topic. Detailed requirements are published in each semester in which the seminar takes place in the Course Materials in the Learning Materials folder of the course.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 8 hodin v semestru.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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