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Lecturer(s)
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Dach Stefanie, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1) What is philosophy of language? Meaning as a problem. 2) The beginnings of analytical philosophy: Frege, Russell and the early Wittgenstein, meaning atomism 3) Meaning holism: Quine 4) Meaning as use: the late Wittgenstein 5) Pragmatics: speech act theory 6) Pragmatics: implicatures, presuppositions, deictic and indexical expressions 7) Current approaches to meaning: formal semantics, inferentialism, teleosemantics 8) Modality: necessity, possibility and possible worlds 9) Modality: "ought" and the language of morals 10) Language acquisition 11) Language and thought 12) The origin of language 13) Language, power and society
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Textual studies, Lecture, Seminar
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 60 hours per semester
- unspecified
- 57 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 78 hours per semester
- Presentation preparation (report in a foreign language) (10-15)
- 15 hours per semester
- Graduate study programme term essay (40-50)
- 50 hours per semester
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| Knowledge |
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| characterize basic linguistic categories (word classes, grammatical categories, statement, text, etc.) |
| describe the main schools of thought in modern, especially 20th century philosophy |
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| reconstruct arguments in philosophical and scientific texts written in English |
| use common academic digital tools, e.g. research databases |
| formulate and defend one's position in discussion |
| read logical formulas in first order predicate calculus |
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| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| reproduce different approaches to meaning, their motivations and consequences |
| characterize the relevance of language to other areas of philosophical and scientific inquiry |
| describe selected scientific theories and hypotheses about language |
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| evaluate the mutual relevance of philosophical and scientific approaches to language |
| analyze the meaning of sample sentences according to different approaches to meaning and compare the results of these analyses |
| utilize one's philosophical and scientific knowledge about language to examine claims about language in a coherent seminary paper |
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| teaching methods |
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| Lecture with visual aids |
| Textual studies |
| Self-study of literature |
| Individual study |
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| Seminar |
| Skills demonstration |
| Individual study |
| Students' portfolio |
| Field trip |
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| Seminar |
| Skills demonstration |
| Students' portfolio |
| assessment methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Combined exam |
| Seminar work |
| Test |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Skills |
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| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Skills demonstration during practicum |
| Competences |
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| Combined exam |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Seminar work |
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Recommended literature
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Analytická filosofie : první čítanka : texty. 2. vyd. Plzeň : O.P.S., 2005. ISBN 80-239-7107-7.
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Černý, Jiří. Dějiny lingvistiky. Olomouc : Votobia, 1996. ISBN 80-85885-96-4.
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Derrida, Jacques. Texty k dekonstrukci : práce z let 1967-1972. [b.v.]. Bratislava : Archa, 1993. ISBN 80-7115-046-0.
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Helbig, Gerhard. Vývoj jazykovědy po roce 1970. Praha : Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1991.
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Saussure, Ferdinand de; Bally, Charles,; Sechehaye, Albert; Riedlinger, Albert. Kurs obecné lingvistiky. 1. vyd. (v Academii). Praha : Academia, 1996. ISBN 80-200-0560-9.
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