Course: Interdisciplinary Language Studies

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Course title Interdisciplinary Language Studies
Course code KSR/92AIP
Organizational form of instruction Not filled in
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 10
Language of instruction Czech, Russian
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Vychodilová Zdeňka, doc. PhDr. CSc.
  • Flídrová Helena, prof. PhDr. CSc.
Course content
01. Changes in linguistic paradigm. 02. Origins and development of psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics. Key terms. 03. Meaning of word and possibilites of description. Mental lexicon. Production and reception of speech. 04. Language and society. Language politics. Language minorities. Language and power. 05. Intercultural communication. 06. Antropocentric approach to language study. 07. Key terms of cognitive linguistics: concept, conceptualization, metaphorisation. 08. Language picture of the world, key word. 09. Theory of text - origins, development. Key terms. 10. Fundamental tendencies and schools of text analysis. 11. Text and its definition. Properties. Categories. 12. Coherence. Cohesion. Intertextuality.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
Psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics The lecture and seminar deal with the broad modern interdisciplinary fields of linguistics, which can facilitate the knowledge received after studying traditional linguistics. It is the concept of communicative linguistics, which investigates the functioning of language in an individual speech situation (including the psychological and social aspects of speech). Cognitive linguistics The discipline is supposed to introduce the broad context of the change of linguistics paradigm related to the origins of antropocentrism and emphasis on interpretation in language study. The discipline presents fundamental schools in cognitive linguistics and key terms and methods of the new approach. The discipline is designed as a lecture followed by the students´ discussion of the topics and presentation of papers. Theory of text The lecture and seminars deal with the content, methods and definition of so-called lext linguistics and its key terms. Critical assessment of representatives of Czech and Russian text lingusitics (Daneš, Palek, Sgall, Padučevová, Gaľperin etc.) is presented. The object of interest is the concept of text, its structure and delimitation, interpretation of "discourse" and analysis of constitutive properties of text (e.g. cohesion, coherence, anaphora, reference etc.).
Knowledge and skills received after studying the applied linguistic disciplines, or interdisciplinary fields of linguistics. Language material in comparative Russian-Czech and Czech-Russian point of view is involved.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of Russian language corresponding at least to C1 level. In case of foreign students, corresponding knowledge of Czech language. Knowledge of general linguistics as well as partial linguistic disciplines corresponding to the level of Mgr. study od Russian philology at Czech university. General knowledge of the issues in humanities and social sciences.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam

- active participation in lectures, seminars - study of reference literature - submitting a presentation/ project/ paper - passing the exam
Recommended literature
  • Altmann,G.T.M.: . (2005). Výstup na babylonskou věž. Otázky jazyka, mysli a porozumění.. Praha.
  • Bell, R.T. Sociolingvistika. Moskva 1980.
  • Bulygina, T.V., Šmelev, A.D.:. konceptualizacija mira (Na materiale russkoj grammatiki). Moskva 1997.
  • Daneš, Fr. a Hlavsa, Z. (1985). Věta a text.. Praha.
  • de Beaugrande, R., and W. Dresler. Introduction to Text Linguistics.
  • Dolník, J.-Bajzíková, E. Textová lingvistika. Bratislava 1992.
  • Flídrová, H.:. Sociolingvistické a psycholingvistické aspekty dialogu a polylogu v ruštině. Praha, 1989..
  • Gaľperin, I.R. Tekst kak ob´jekt lingvističeskogo issledovanija.. Moskva 1981.
  • Hoffmannová, J. Sémantické a pragmatické aspekty koherence textu. In: Linguistica VI, Praha 1983.
  • HOFFMANNOVÁ, J. (1997). Stylistika a... Praha: Trizonia.
  • Karaulov, Ju.N. (2006). Russkij jazyk i jazykovaja ličnosť. Moskva.
  • Kořenský, J. Jazyk-řeč-poznání. Olomouc 2004.
  • Lakoff, G. - Johnson, M. (2002). Metafory, kterými žijeme. Brno: Host.
  • Leonťev, A.A. (1962). Jazyk, reč´, rečevaja dejatel´nost´.. Moskva.
  • Mečkovskaja, M.B. Socia%lnaja lingvistika.. Moskva 2000.
  • Moskaľskaja, O.I. (1980). Grammatika teksta. Moskva.
  • Nebeská, I. (1992). Úvod do psycholingvistiky. Praha.
  • Šmelev, A.D. (2002). Russkja jazykovaja modeľ mira.. Moskva.
  • Vaňková et al. (2005). Co na srdci, to na jazyku. Praha.
  • Wierzbicka, A. (2001). Spostoavlenije kuľtur čerez posredstvo leksiki i grammatiki.. Moskva.
  • Wierzbicka, A. (1997). Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese. New York: Oxford University Press.


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): Russian Language (12) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -