Course: Contrastively Lingvistika

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Course title Contrastively Lingvistika
Course code KNJ/LINKO
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Menclová Hana, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Höppnerová Věra, Prof. PhDr. DrSc.
Course content
1. Inter- and intralangular interference and positive transfer 2. Morphological phenomena endangered by interlingual interference (member use, verbs, reversible verbs, passive gender, conjunctions, different nouns in Czech and German, numerals and numerical data) 3. Syntactic phenomena (sein and haben + infinitive with zu, coordinate and subordinate couplings, sentences with - desto, relaxation of the sentence frame, expression of the Czech "nor" in German) 4. Causes of interference errors in home-based words (polysemy, semantic connectivity, fixed syntactic connections, paronymy). Asymmetry when using foreign words 5-6. Interlingual interference with selected domestic and foreign words 7. Interference in the phonetic plane 8.-9. Development trends of contemporary German in the field of morphology, syntax, word formation, vocabulary, phonetics and spelling 10. Conclusions for teaching practice 11. Text linguistics (types of texts, intertextuality, differences in texts in Czech and German) 12. Sociolinguistics (language strata, social division of language, sociolects)

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
  • Preparation for formative assessments (2-20) - 20 hours per semester
  • Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40) - 35 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
language skills at the B2+ level or higher
professional knowledge of German linguistics at the Bachelor's degree level
Skills
to use professional literature in a foreign language
to conduct a professional discussion in German
learning outcomes
Knowledge
to explain the notion of interference
to compare different grammatical phenomena in Czech and German
to explain the term text and characterize it
to describe German stratification from different perspectives
Skills
to communicate at C1 level
to avoid interference in German communication
to distinguish the written language from speech and dialect
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
Seminar
Multimedia supported teaching
Skills
Seminar
Multimedia supported teaching
Skills demonstration
Individual study
assessment methods
Knowledge
Test
Continuous assessment
Oral exam
Skills
Test
Skills demonstration during practicum
Continuous assessment
Recommended literature
  • Brinker, Klaus. Linguistische Textanalyse. Eine Einführung in Grundbegriffe und Methoden. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2005. ISBN 978-3503079483.
  • Engel, Ulrich, Tertel, Rozemaria A. Kommunikative Grammatik. München: Iudicium, 1993. ISBN 978-389 389 12925.
  • Götze, Lutz. Knaurs Grammatik der deutschen Sprache: Sprachsystem und Sprachgebrauch. München: Knaur, 1997. ISBN 978-3426820100.
  • Helbig, Gerhard, Buscha, Joachim. Deutsche Grammatik. Ein Handbuch für den Ausländerunterricht.. München, 2013. ISBN 978-312-606-3654.
  • Höppnerová, Věra. Begleiter durch die deutsche Grammatik. Praha: Ekopress, 2015. ISBN 978-80-87865-11-8.
  • Löffler, Heinrich. Germanistische Soziolinguistik. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2010. ISBN 978-3-503-12222-6.


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