FPF:UCJNWWN1 Word and Lexis - Course Information
UCJNWWN1 Word and Lexis
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaWinter 2015
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Dr. phil. Veronika Kotůlková (seminar tutor)
prof. PhDr. Iva Zündorf, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Iva Zündorf, 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
- German in combination with another discipline (programme FPF, N7310 Filo)
- German (programme FPF, N7310 Filo)
- Secondary School Teacher Training in German (programme FPF, N7504 UcSS)
- Course objectives
- The course will give students an insight into the scope of integration processes of borrowings in German. The actual process of borrowing is complex and involves many usage events (i.e. instances of use of the new word). Conventionalization is a gradual process in which a word progressively permeates a larger speech community. As part of it a newly borrowed word may gradually adopt characteristics of the borrowing language. Although loanwords are typically less numerous than the native words of most languages they are often widely known and used, since their borrowing served a certain purpose. The lecture covers the variety of discourses on this topic with special focus on functionality of loanwords and xenisms in different text types and communicative situations. Seminars incorporate student presentations and discussions of the topic (esp. contact linguistics). At the end of the semester the students will have achieved an advanced competence in the area of text analysis and linguistic characterology of German.
- Syllabus
- 1. Borrowings, loan words and cultural contact
2. Different periods of influence, historical and contemporary discourse
3. Loanwords and their acceptance in the language comunity - On the problem of language purism
4. Loanwords and linguistics
5. Terminology
6. Criteria of integration
7. English loanwords in German
8. Orthography, pronunciation
9. Morphology
10. Word formation
11. Syntax
12. Stylistic functions
- 1. Borrowings, loan words and cultural contact
- Language of instruction
- German
- Further Comments
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Teacher's information
- Attendance, active participation, homework.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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