Syllabus
INTRODUCTION & HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Week 1: Language/Speech Origin - Language Properties
Week 2: Indo-European Family - Comparative Linguistics
Week 3: Historical Development of English and Czech
Week 4: History of Linguistics - Structuralism - Saussure
Week 5: Prague School - Members - Basic Tenets
LANGUE DISCIPLINES
Week 6: Phonetics - Phonology
Week 7: Writing Systems - Written English - Graphology
Week 8: Morphology - Language typology
Week 9: Lexicology - Lexicography
Week 10: Lexical Semantics
Week 11: Syntax - FSP
PAROLE DISCIPLINES
Week 12: Text Linguistics - Discourse Analysis - Pragmatics - Psycholinguistics - Sociolinguistics
Annotation
The aim of this course is to prepare the conceptual ground for further in-depth study of individual linguistic disciplines and mainly to promote a more responsive and responsible approach to language as such. The general and universal features of language will be studied, as well as its development, typology and classification with focus on the position of English among
Indo-European languages. Within the framework of English, the individual language levels and their interconnectedness will be explored (phonetico-phonological, morphological, lexical, semantic, syntactic, pragmatic and stylistic).