Course: Phraseology in the Czech-German Context

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Course title Phraseology in the Czech-German Context
Course code KGER/KN13
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
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)
  • Bergerová Hana, doc. Dr.
Course content
1. Phraseology - theoretical basics 2. Cultural aspects of phraseoloogy 3. Aspects of interlingual equivalence in phraseology I 4. Aspects of interlingual equivalence in phraseology II 5. Aspects of interlingual equivalence in phraseology III 6. Phrasems in dictionaries - an introduction 7. German-Czech and Czech-German phraseography: current state and desiderata 8. Motivation in phraseology 9. Metaphorics in the Czech and German phraseology on the example of the semantic field "Emotions", symbolism of colours in Czech and German phraseology

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes of this course unit is to familiarize the students with German phraseology, especially idiomatic expressions at the background of the phraseology of the mother tongue, and to provide them with selected linguistic and intercultural aspects of the research of phraseological units of contemporary German and Czech with parallel accentuation of equivalence, similarity and contrastivity criteria. The course focuses not only on the Czech-German perspective but also takes into account the wider European intercultural context (the so-called European phraseological internationalisms).
The student masters theoretical basics of phraseology and is able to explain selected linguistic and intercultural aspects of phraseological units in German and Czech.
Prerequisites
none

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Credit requirements: - active participation in seminars, a PPT presentation on the partial themes of the studied subject matter
Recommended literature
  • Bergerová, H. Deutsch-tschechische und tschechisch-deutsche Lerner-wörterbücher auf dem Prüfstand. Eine Fallstudie zur Behandlung fester Wortverbindungen.. 2016.
  • Bergerová, H. Phraseologie im deutsch-tschechischen Kontext/Frazeologie v česko-německém kontextu. Ústí nad Labem: UJEP, 2021.
  • Burger, H. Kulturwissenschaftliche Orientierung in der Phraseologie. In: Jäger, Ludwig et al. Sprache ? Kultur ? Kommunikation. Language ? Culture ? Communication. Ein internationales Handbuch zu Linguistik als Kulturwissenschaft. An International Handbook of Linguistics as a Cultural Discipline. Berlin/New York, 2016.
  • Dobrovol´skij, D. Phraseologismen in kontrastiver Sicht. In: Cruse, D. Alan et al. (Hrsg.): Lexikologie: ein internationales Handbuch zur Natur und Struktur von Wörtern und Wortschätzen. 1.. Berlin/New York, 2002.
  • Dobrovol´skij, D./Piirainen, E. Symbole in Sprache und Kultur: Studien zur Phraseologie aus kultursemiotischer Perspektive.. Bochum, 2002.


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