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Terminated in academic year 2016/2017

Standard Language and its Culture II

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 121-0327/01
Abbreviation SJJK II.
Course title Standard Language and its Culture II
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Economics Journalism
Course coordinator doc. PhDr. Eva Jandová, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Changes in the current Czech vocabulary; Enhancement of the Czech vocabulary; Ways of words creation; Writing of loanwords, their inflection
2. Morphologic level, flexible and rigid word kinds
3. Formal morphology - declension and conjugation, the actual standard
4. Sentence and its informative contents; Simple and compound sentence, sentential units
5. Half-sentential construction; sentential equivalences and fragments
6. Word order, principles of the Czech word order
7. Peculiarities and irregularities in sentential units
8. Communication - the basic concepts
9. Written communication vs. spoken communication
10. Rhetoric style and rhetorical skills
11. Language culture
12. Development tendencies of the current Czech language I
13. Development tendencies of the current Czech language II

Literature

DANAHER, D. S. Translating Havel: Three key words (domov, svědomí, and klid). Slovo a slovesnost, roč. 71, 2010, s. 250-259.

Advised literature

COCKCROFT, R., COCKCROFT, S. Persuading People. An Introduction to Rhetoric. New York 2005.