Course: Linguistic fundamentals of euro-unity ? one Europe for centuries ? the Czech vision

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Course title Linguistic fundamentals of euro-unity ? one Europe for centuries ? the Czech vision
Course code KBO/E006
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
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)
  • Marvanová Mira, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Czech as a main-stream euro-language in the middle of Europe. 2. European Linguo-Area (ELA), its first models, its tripartite vertical division. 3. Euro-zones (EZ): Central European (incl. Germanic, Finno-Ugric), North Slavic EZ. 4. Basic notion of euro-linguistics: euro-integration, euro-universals, euro-constituents. 5. The main actors and factors of the euro-integration: classical l-s, English, Romance l-s (French, Italian); special cases: German in Central Europe, Russian in Euro-Russia. 6. Ethical problems of euro-integration: big and small languages; eco-linguistics. 7. Samples of euro-integration: phonology, word-formation, inflection, morphosyntax. 8. Origins of euro-integration. 9. At the sources of the Czech euro-integration. The notion of ?macro-Czech? and its impact on Slavic languages. 10. The ?New Age? of the euro-integration (the crucial role of the Bible and its translations in the euro-languages), samples of common European words and idioms. 11. Perspectives of euro-languages ? will they all survive our century? 12. Prague School and its impact on the idea of euro-linguistics and of euro-integration.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
At the threshold of the 21st century, each of the European languages has been facing the question of its all-European context and of its future existence in such a challenging environment. European languages, unlike their quite negligent speakers, have been for centuries proving a great deal of mutual solidarity and concord ? European politicians and sociofuturologists can only dream about ? thus generating gradually the Linguistic euro-union or European Linguo-Area (ELA). When dealing with the ELA and the mutual fellowship of euro-languages, western scholars tend to neglect Slavic as the crucial bridge between the European West and East, not to mention its human and ethical dimension. Czech offers, thanks to its geography and, as one of the ?main stream? languages (such as, say, Swedish or Greek), to its size, quite an important idea: it promotes the notion that the ELA and its role in uniting Europe should not be a privilege of an exclusive club of professionals but rather a property of all Europeans and all university scholars, i.e. students and their instructors in particular. They will discover that Czech is here just to stand for their own euro-language, their home, no matter how big and important it might be. Thanks to it, they will discover a new Europe which is one of the main purposes of this workshop.
The student is trained in euro-linguistics as an areal typology phenomena and is able study and analyze a big range of European languages and their common and individual areal and typological features.
Prerequisites
Interest in languages of Europe.

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
1. Active and regular participation. 2. Solving of all exercises during each classes and noting the results of them. 3. Seminar assignment (aprox. 6 pages) on concrete language topic.
Recommended literature
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