KSCB060 Introduction to Chinese Grammatology

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2015
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jiří Plucar, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Lucie Olivová, MA, Ph.D., DSc.
Department of Chinese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Jiří Plucar, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Chinese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 12:30–14:05 B2.23
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 50 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/50, only registered: 0/50, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/50
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The goal of the course is to familiarize students with basic terminology and characteristics of the study of Chinese writing (grammatology) through lectures. The purpose of the lectures is to provide the students with necessary historical and terminological context with notions such as types of characters, graphical transformations, structural analysis, graphical etymology, dictionary Shuōwén jiězì, etc. A practical part will follow when various excavated texts will be read together. Students will also make presentations with chosen subjects. At the end of the course the students will be able to: - understand the complexity of the basic study of Chinese writing (grammatology), palaeography and their component disciplines - understand key technical terms linked to different phenomena concerning Chinese writing, understand chronological and material articulation of archaic documentation - get a deeper insight into the structure of a character from the point of view of graphical etymology - explain some principal issues of graphical transformations of the Chinese writing and to know basic characteristics of its archaic types (development, deformations, semantical aspects, loan characters, context, typology, Shuōwén jiězì)
Syllabus
  • (0) Basic information, introduction to the study of Chinese writing (1) Basic characteristics, terminology, bibliography (2) Chinese grammatology I (3) Chinese grammatology II (4) Xǔ Shèn and his dictionary Shuōwén jiězì (5) Development of Chinese writing, chronology, materials (6) Oracle bone inscriptions, basic characteristics (7) Oracle bone inscriptions: reading documents I (8) Oracle bone inscriptions: reading documents II (9) Ritual bronze inscriptions, basic characteristics (10) Bronze writing: reading documents I (11) Bronze writing: reading documents II (12) Introduction to scripts of Warring States period
Assessment methods
Every student will make a presentation of a given subject orally or as a written assignment. Students are allowed to be absent twice. These two conditions are relevant to get the credit for the course. If these are not fulfilled, the course can be validated alternatively by doing homework on a given theme.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2016, Spring 2017.
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