UCJNU003 Text Linguistics

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Summer 2017
Extent and Intensity
1/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Gabriela Rykalová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Gabriela Rykalová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Gabriela Rykalová, Ph.D.
Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Lecture will deliver basic information about this young discipline to students and introduce them current problems of linguistic research. Particular attention will be paid to the classification of the text, its creation, interpretation and structure. The seminar focuses on the analysis of specific texts.
Syllabus
  • 1. Text and its definitions
    2. Criteria of textuality
    3. Text structure
    4. Text production
    5. Text comprehension
    6. Communication
    7. Interview analysis
    8. Text types
    9. Gebrauchstexte
    10. Specific properties of selected text types
    11. Aspects of classification
    12. Current topics in the field of text linguistics
Language of instruction
German
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Students are expected to hand in their final project 2 at the end of the fourth semester. The project should be theoretical. Students are expected to work with different sources of information, use the knowledge acquired during their studies and present the results of their work together with their own opinions. The final project should have 10-15 pages, should be written in German according to the criteria for academic papers. Each student chooses the topic of their final project from the following fields: grammar, pronunciation, literature of German speaking countries, life and institutions in German speaking countries, or didactic applications in teaching foreign languages.
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2012, Summer 2013, Summer 2014, Summer 2015, Summer 2016, Summer 2018, Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Summer 2021, Summer 2022.
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