UCJAAND1 English Dialects

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Winter 2011
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Pavel Kolář, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Pavel Kolář, CSc.
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 (in Czech)
V předmětu anglické dialekty se posluchači seznámí s hlavními akcenty a dialekty angličtiny a na praktických poslechových a výslovnostních cvičeních zdokonalí své schopnosti porozumět podstatě rozdílů mezi nimi. Sylabus přednášky: 1. Linguistic and social variability 2. Sex, ethnicity, age 3. Accent phonology 4. How and why accents differ 5. Standard lexical sets 6. Historical developments and processes 7. RP, London 8. The south and the North of the British Isles 9. The Celtic countries (Wales, Scotland, Ireland) 10. General American, the South, Black English 11. Canada, the West Indies 12. The Southern Hemisphere, the Imperial Heritage Sylabus semináře: 1. British and American English 2. The south of Great Britain 3. The north of Great Britain 4. Received pronunciation, BBC English 5. Cockney 6. Scotland, Wales 7. Ireland, Northern Ireland 8. The U.S.A. 1 9. The U.S.A. 2, Canada 10. The Caribbean 11. Australia, New Zealand, South Africa 12. Asia (Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines) Literatura: J.C.Wells, 1982. Accents of English. Cambridge: CUP. ISBN 0 521 22919 7
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2007, Winter 2008, Winter 2009, Winter 2010, Winter 2012, Winter 2013, Winter 2014, Winter 2015, Winter 2016, Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020.
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