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Lecturer(s)
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Czarnecki Szczepan Pavel, Mgr.
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Zajícová Lenka, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Zámec Radim, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Language and culture - introduction. Linguistic anthropology as a scientific discipline, its subject matter, methods and aims, its position in relation to anthropology and linguistics. Predecessors and main figures and their basic theses. Basic ethnolinguistic concepts and theory of linguistic relativism - evolution and the current state of the debate. 2. Communication and the beginnings of language. Emergence and evolution of language in humanity. Older and modern theories. Communication systems in animals. 3. Language development at the individual. The types and stages of language acquisition. Language development in a language community. The genealogical classification of languages. Reconstruction of the proto-language, homeland and proto-culture. 4. Variation of language in space. Idiolects, dialects and styles. Bilingualism/multilingualism, diglossia. Pidgins and Creoles. Language Policy. 5. Language structure: Phonetic, phonological, morphological and syntactic plan. Typology of languages. 6. Language spoken and written. The origin of writing and different writing systems. Orality and literacy: cognitive and cultural implications of literacy, differences between literary and oral cultures. 7. Language and world view. Cognitive ethnolinguistics. Conceptualization, categorization and meaning. Conceptualization of colors. Conceptualization of quantity and numbers. 8. Conceptualization of space and spatial reference frames. 9. Conceptualization of family relationships (types of kinship terminology; 8 parameters describe kinship relations). 10. Pragmatics (pragmalinguistics): speech acts, implicature (informativeness principle, cooperation principle), politeness, "face-threatening acts". 11. Ethnography of communication: speech situation, speech event, speech act; SPEAKING: 8 aspects of speech events, language ideology, language of ideology.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
- Homework for Teaching
- 50 hours per semester
- Attendace
- 25 hours per semester
- Preparation for the Exam
- 25 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The course focuses on language as one of the cultural and social phenomena and on the relationship between language, culture and thought. It introduces basic linguistic concepts and familiarizes with object, methods and objectives of linguistic anthropology. In more detail, it addresses some selected areas of interest of linguistic anthropology, such as the relationship between language and world view, the diversity of conceptualisation and categorization of universal reality (color, space, kinship, etc.), and ethnography of communication.
After successful completion of the course the student will be able to define the language and the place of Language Studies in the context of Cultural Anthropology; to explain the evolution of ideas about language, its origin and relationship with the extralinguistic reality; to explain the the basic linguistic concepts; to interpret scientific texts dealing with the relationship between language, culture and thinking or describing the methods and results of ethnolinguistic research; assess the validity of hypotheses about the relationship between language and thought.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Mark, Oral exam, Systematic Observation of Student
The ability to read and understand academic text in English. Successful completion of the course is subject to active participation in seminars, where Czech and English academic texts will be analyzed(about 15 pages per week).
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Recommended literature
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BUDIL, Ivo T.:. Mýtus, jazyk a kulturní antropologie. 4. vyd. Praha: Triton, 2003..
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Čermák, František:. Jazyk a jazykověda. 4. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2011..
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Černý, Jiří:. Úvod do studia jazyka. Olomouc: Rubico, 1998..
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LAKOFF, George:. Ženy, oheň a nebezpečné věci: Co kategorie vypovídají o naší mysli. Praha: Triáda, 2006..
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Levinson, Stephen C.:. Space in Language and Cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003..
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ONG, Walter J.:. Technologizace slova: Mluvená a psaná řeč. Praha: Karolinum, 2006..
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Pokorný, Jan:. Lingvistická antropologie: Jazyk, kultura a mysl. Praha: Grada, 2010..
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SALZMANN, Zdeněk:. Jazyk, kultura a společnost. Praha: Ústav pro etnografii a folkloristiku AV ČR, 1997..
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Sapir, Edward:. Time Perspective in Aboriginal American Culture: A Study in Method. Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1916..
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Schieffelin, Bambi, Woolard, Kathryn, Kroskrity, Paul V.:. Language ideologies: practice and theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998..
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VRHEL, František:. Základy etnolingvistiky. Praha: SPN, 1981..
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WHORF, Benjamin Lee:. Language, Thought and Reality. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1956..
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