UCJCA086 Text Building

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Summer 2020
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Pavel Kolář, CSc. (lecturer)
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 offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce the students to the methodological basis and objectives of text linguistics and demonstrate how text linguistics can be applied when performing grammatical and stylistic analyses. The lectures provide students with an overview of the methods of text linguistics. In seminars students will have the opportunity to apply their knowledge on various text types.
Syllabus
  • Syllabus of the lectures:
    1. Text, relevant disciplines, methods
    2. Textuality I: Cohesion, coherence, intentionality, acceptability
    3. Textuality II: informativity, situationality, intertextuality
    4. Text structure I: Microstructures and macrostructures
    5. Text structure II: Functional Sentence Perspective
    6. Textual grammar I: Pronominal reference
    7. Textual grammar II: Tempus
    8. Textual grammar III: Article
    9. Text I: Factors of text interpretation
    10. Text II: Quaestio-model
    11. Text types I: Cultural criteria
    12. Text types II: Structural criteria
    12. Textové druhy II: Strukturní kritéria
    Syllabus of the seminars:
    1. Beyond the sentence
    2. Text and discourse
    3. Standards of textuality - cohesion, coherence, intentionality and acceptability
    4. Text packaging - classifying criteria
    5. Text packaging - Cleft pseudo-cleft constructions
    6. Text packaging - Fronting, inversion, dislocation, extraposition
    7. Irregular structures - regularity, irregularity, deviation
    8. Irregular structures -types od deviation
    9. Irregular structures - analysis of practical examples
    10. Evaluative predications
    11. Evaluative constructions
    12. Miscellaneous cases and comparison with Czech
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Text analysis
Written test
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