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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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1. General survey of developmental phases of the German language, the development of German settlement in the Czech lands. 2. Introduction to palaeography in the Czech context u 3. - 4. The German language at the Czech Royal Court and in house of the thirteenth century Bohemian nobility. 5. - 6. The language of the Prague Chancery in the 14th century (Jan ze Středy, Jan ze Žatce) 7. - 8. The German language under the influence of Martin Luther - texts of songs and some other texts of Bohemian Lutherans in the Brotherhood (Mendota bratrská (Michael Weisse a Nikolaus Herman) 9. - 10. The increased influence of the Upper German variant of the German language. (Oberdeutsch) in the period of recatholization in the 17th century and its gradual weakening in the following century, Stey ´s German Grammar of the year 1731. 11. - 12. German dialects in the Czech lands and their reflection in literature 13. - 14. Prague German language (Eisner, Kisch) and Czech influences on Viennese German at the turn of the 19th and 20th century.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of this interdisciplinary course which follows up the course "The Development of Language", is to get acquainted with the development of German in the Czech Lands as a historically two-language territory. The material outcome will be literary texts that were created on the Bohemian territory in different periods of the culminating period of the Middle Ages (the first German literary works from the courtly environment), via beginnings of Humanism (the language of the Prague Chancery), reformation (the German language of M. Luther), the Baroque Style (language under the influence of the Upper German environment) as far as literature of the 19th and 20th centuries (dialects in literature, Prague German language, influence of the Czech language on Viennese German). The practice of reading German manuscripts and printed texts related to the studies themes will become part of the seminars, which will result in the prerequisite for the successful analysis and interpretation of texts for literary and historically and literary focused master theses The course is a free follow up of "German-language Literature of the Early New Age in the Czech Lands". The knowledge acquired in this course can further be extended in the restricted elective course called "Development of Language in the Mirror of the Regional Press".
Understanding the development of language in the Czech-German intercultural context, the deepening of the ability to make literary and linguistics analysis and interpretation of texts, practising abstract thinking.
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Prerequisites
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none
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Conditions for granting credit points: 1. Active participation in seminars 2. An oral presentation and a seminar paper on the selected topic.
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Recommended literature
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Breuer, D. Oberdeutsche Literatur 1565 ? 1650. Deutsche Literaturgeschichte und Territorialgeschichte in frühabsolutistischer Zeit.. München, 1979.
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Ehrismann, O. (Hg.). Sudetendeutsches Wörterbuch. München, 1988.
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Habl, E. Auswärts. Mundartliches aus Böhmen, Mähren und Sudetenschlesien. München, 1999.
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König, V. Dtv-Atlas deutsche Sprache. München, 2007.
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Krywalski, D. Tiuschiu zunge, wie st?t dîn ordenunge. Funktion und Bedeutung der Prager Kanzleisprache für die Ausbildung der neuhochdeutschen Schriftsprache. In: Weit von hier wohnen wir, weit von hier.. Praha, 2002.
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Kvapil, J. Čítanka německé barokní literatury z českých zemí. Anthologie der deutschen Barockliteratur aus den Böhmischen Ländern. Ústí nad Labem, 2001.
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Polenz, P. von. Geschichte der deutschen Sprache. Berlin, 2009.
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Skála, E. Die Entwicklung der Kanzleisprache in Eger 1310 bis 1660. Berlin, 1967.
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Skála, E. (Hg.). Texte der frühen Neuzeit aus der Slowakei. Berlin, 2004.
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Trost, P. - Povejšil, J. Studien über Sprache und Literatur. Leipzig, 2006.
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