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Terminated in academic year 2016/2017

Stylistics in Journalism

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 121-0310/02
Abbreviation SVŽ
Course title Stylistics in Journalism
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Economics Journalism
Course coordinator doc. PhDr. Hana Srpová, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Mass media/means of mass information and propaganda
2. The basic concepts of stylistics; methods of stylistic analysis. Stylistic factors; stylish area, layer, norm, type
3. Theory of functional styles - functional artistic style, normally communication style, expert and administrative, rhetoric and journalistic style, their formations and means. Principles of mutual influencing and permeation
4. Differentiation and stratification of the national language from the view of stylistic use in journalistic genres.
5. Stylish characteristics of phonetic and lexical, words creating and morphologic means
6. Stylish characteristic of synthetic means; the roles and principles of word order.
7. Journalistic genres. Stylistic procedures and stylistic formations
8. Principles and rules of stylization in news and journalism
9. The most frequent drawbacks in writing of news communiqué I
10. The most frequent drawbacks in writing of news communiqué II
11. The basic structure of news genres I
12. The basic structure of news genres II
13. Principles of work with information sources
14. Stylistic analysis of the text (micro- and macro-composition)

Literature

BLAKE, G. – BLY, R. W. The Elements of Copywriting. New York: MacMillan, 1997.

Advised literature

SPARKS, C. (2005). The Media and Globalization. London: Sage Publications.