UCJAFPK1 Funcional Sentence Perspective

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Summer 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/5/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lucie Kučerová, 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
  • English (programme FPF, N7310 Filo)
Course objectives
The course focuses on the history of the Functional Sentence Perspective theory from the psychological subject and psycological predicate to bipartition and tripartition to the modern pluripartition. The course deals with the historical period in question in the work of the main protagonists in the form of presentations.
Syllabus
  • 1. From H. Weil to Mathesius
    2. Mathesius` Functional Sentence Perspective and the objective and subjective word order
    3. Firbas`s communicative dynamism and its carriers
    4. Four factors of Firbas` Functional Sentence Perspective
    5. Interplay of the four factors
    6. Thematic, transitional and rhematic units
    7. Functional Sentence Perspective units and their hierarchy
    8. Theme proper and similar units
    9. Diatheme and similar units
    10. Transition proper and transition
    11. Rheme and rheme proper
    12. Hierarchy of the distributional field
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Presentation.
Instructions on self-study will be provided during the initial consultations, in the study support for this course and references to the recommended literature.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2007, Winter 2008, Winter 2009, Winter 2010, Winter 2011, Summer 2014, Summer 2016, Summer 2017, Summer 2018, Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Summer 2021.
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