Course: Text Linguistics and Text Stylistics

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Course title Text Linguistics and Text Stylistics
Course code KGER/0854
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction German
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Malá Jiřina, doc. PhDr. CSc.
Course content
1. Text linguistic backgrounds- proposition and communication conception of the text, selected definitions of the text; 2. Structure of the text, cohesion and coherence, content, theme, information core of the text, function versus intention, classification of texts 3. Survey of the conception of style development as a characteristic feature of the text from the Antique period to the present day 4. Functional Stylistics - characteristics of individual functional styles 5. Kinds of texts and their typical features 6.-7. Case Studies I: Selected kinds of texts from the area of the professional functional style 8.-9. Case studies II: Selected kinds of texts from the area of the Journalese as a functional style 10. Methods of Stylistic analysis of texts- a survey 11.-12. Stylistic analysis of text: Case Studies to the selected types of texts 14. Summary

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of this course is to mediate basic thematic units of text linguistics and Textual Stylistics in synchronic and diachronic point of view with an accent on the Czech -German intercultural context. The course summarizes basic text linguistics items of knowledge, it reflects on the development in understanding of the current phenomenon called "style" in the course of centuries, it further it introduces individual functional styles and the follow-up issues by studying selected kinds of texts (in both German and Czech), i.e. the text in which these styles are realised; and finally, it informs students about methods of stylistic and linguistic analysis of texts. In the final part of the course a lot of attention is paid to case studies of stylistic and linguistic analysis of texts.
This subject develops the students´ sense of the correct choice of linguistic devices depending on the varying communication factors of the chosen text species as well as on the intention of the speaker/writer. Further, the students learn how to analyse texts from the point of view of stylistic sand text linguistics.
Prerequisites
none

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Credit Requirements: active participation in seminar work, fulfilment of all assigned tasks; Examination: written, in the form of an exam paper (stylistic and text linguistic analysis of the selected text, the paper will be written in the German language)
Recommended literature
  • Barbara Sandig. Textstilistik des Deutschen. Berlin, New York, 2006.
  • Jiřina Malá. Stilistische Textanalyse: Grundlagen und Methoden. Brno, 2009.
  • Klaus Brinker. Linguistische Textanalyse. Berlin, 2001.
  • Ulla Fix/Hannelore Poethe/Gabriele Yos. Textlinguistik für Einsteiger. Ein Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch. Frankfurt/M., 2003.


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 in the Czech-German Intercultural Context (A12) Category: Philological sciences 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter