Course: German Philology - Linguistic Lecture

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Course title German Philology - Linguistic Lecture
Course code KGN/LGP17
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction German
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Bačuvčíková Petra, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Introduction Historical development of Conversation Analysis (CA) Overview of current theories and approaches in conversation research Basic concepts: conversation, spoken and written language Analytical aspects (categories of CA, organization of conversation) Turntaking (SW, turn, uptake, typology) Features of spoken language (verbal, nonverbal) Adjacency pairs Phases of a dialogue Areas of application of Conversation Analysis On the notation of conversations

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training)
Learning outcomes
The topic of this lecture is Conversational analysis and dialogue analysis. The lecture focuses on the foundations of Gesprächsanalyse, the analysis of conversation within interactional linguistics. Students are introduced to the core principles of structured communication, including sequence organization, turntaking mechanisms, and the linguistic means through which social interaction is created and maintained. The course presents essential analytical tools, demonstrates work with authentic conversational data, and explores how spoken interaction varies across different contexts. Its aim is to develop the ability to interpret spoken discourse in detail and understand its social functions.
The resulting competence in the field of Conversation Analysis consists in the student's ability to describe and explain the fundamental theoretical concepts of conversation analysis, apply analytical procedures to authentic spoken interaction data, identify and characterize sequential structures, turntaking rules, and repair mechanisms, interpret linguistic resources in terms of their interactional and social functions, analyze different types of conversations across diverse communicative contexts, and present a selected phenomenon of conversation analysis on the basis of secondary literature and their own analytical observations.
Prerequisites
The lecture is intended for all students of the Palacký University, knowledge of German at least at B2 level and knowledge of basic linguistic terminology is assumed.

Assessment methods and criteria
Mark, Oral exam

The lecture is concluded with an oral examination, the topics are specified in the course content.
Recommended literature
  • Bartschat, Brigitte. (1996). Methoden der Sprachwissenschaft. Berlin.
  • Brinker, Klaus / Gerd Antos / Wolfgang Heinemann / Sven F. Sager (Hrsg.). (2001). Text- und Gesprächslinguistik. Ein internationales Handbuch zeitgenössischer Forschung - Linguistics of Text and Conversation. An International Handbook of Contemporary Research. = Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft -Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 16/2). Berlin.
  • Burdelski, Matthew; Greer, Tim. (2026). The Routledge Handbook of Conversation Analysis.
  • Bußmann, Hadumod. (2002). Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft. Stuttgart.
  • Dudenredaktion. (2022). DUDEN. Die Grammatik. Mannheim.
  • Fleischer, W.; Helbig, G.; Lerchner, G. (Hrsg.). (2001). Kleine Enzyklopädie deutsche Sprache. Frankfurt am Main. u.a.
  • Huang, Yan. (2019). Pragmatika. Praha.
  • Levinson, Stephen. (2000). Pragmatik. Tübingen.
  • Linke, Angelika / Markus Nussbaumer / Paul R. Portmann. (2004). Studienbuch Linguistik. 5., erweiterte Auflage, inkl. CD-ROM. Tübingen: Niemeyer (= Reihe Germanistische Linguistik 121). [Kapitel 7: Gesprächsanalyse].
  • Watzlawick, P, Bavelas, B., Jackson, D. Pragmatika lidské komunikace: interakční vzorce, patologie a paradoxy. Praha. 2024.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2019_24) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German Philology (2022) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -