Course: Intercultural Aspects of Text Linguistics

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Course title Intercultural Aspects of Text Linguistics
Course code KGER/N012
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)
  • Schuppener Georg, prof. Dr. phil.
Course content
. Introduction to textual linguistics, its development and individual directions in German and Czech environment 2. The term "text" and criteria of textuality 3. Text function and structure: cohesion and coherence 4. Text and style, functional styles in the Czech and German contexts 5. Communication areas and text kinds and types 6. Methods of text analysis, contrastive analysis of German-Czech text 7. Communication area of public communication, case studies in the field of economics and administration 8. Contrastive analyses of texts in the field of legal communication 9. Professional communication, case studies - "expert article" and "popular scientific article" 10. Communications in the field of mass media: case studies "report" and "commentary" 11. Mass media communications: case studies -"review" and "report" 12. Communications in the field of online media 13. Final contrastive analysis of the German and Czech texts

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes of the course is to provide basic thematic areas of text linguistics in the Czech-German intercultural context. The course summarizes basic text linguistic knowledge, presents and confronts selected text types in German and Czech, especially text types from mass media, professional and public communication. Students are also familiar with methods of the textual and stylistic analysis.
The course attendant will acquire -knowledge of text linguistics, -knowledge of text types in different communication areas. -competence to analyse and compare selected text types in German and Czech
Prerequisites
Introduction to Intercultural Linguistics

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Credit requirements: - Regular active participation - Continuous fulfilment of assigned tasks - successful written final text analysis
Recommended literature
  • Brinker, K. Linguistische Textanalyse. Eine Einführung in Grundbegriffe und Methoden. Berlin, 2010.
  • Fix, U./ Poethe, H./ Yos, G. Textlinguistik und Stilistik für Einsteiger. Frankfurt am Main/ Berlin/Bern, 2003.
  • Gansel, Ch./ Jürgens, F. Textlinguistik und Textgrammatik. Eine Einführung. Göttingen, 2009.
  • Malá, J. Stilistische Textanalyse: Grundlagen und Methoden. Brno, 2009.
  • Vaňková, L. et al. Emotionalität in deutschen und tschechischen Medientexten. Ostrava, 2012.


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