Foreign lexical borrowings in the Czech language (KCD/ E-FLB)

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  • Lecturer: doc. PhDr. Diana Svobodová, Ph.D.
  • Lessons (Lectures + Exercises + Seminars): 1 + 0 + 0 [hours/week]
  • Semester: winter / summer
  • Number of credits: 5
  • Requirements: Participation in the lectures.
  • Examination method: Written examination, test covering the main topics dealt with during the lectures.
  • Status of the course in study program: the course is a part of programmes: Teaching of General Subjects for Primary Schools Level 2 – Czech Language and Literature (MA programme). Teaching for Primary schools, Level 2 (Bc. Programme). The course ids provided by the Department of Czech Language and Literature with Didactics.

Annotation:

Course provides students with basic knowledge of foreign lexical borrowings in the Czech vocabulary from  the historical and semantic point of view, loanwords used in various types of terminology and discourse, formal adaptation of borrowings in relation to various linguistic levels (orthographical, phonetic, morphological, syntactic), as well as changes of meaning during the process of adoption.

Topics of lectures:

  1. Czech vocabulary and its content; standard and non-standard strata of the vocabulary, relations among lexemes.
  2. Borrowing lexemes from the diachronic point of view; semantic categories of borrowings, types of terminologies.
  3. Contemporary situation of borrowing foreign words, linguistic globalisation; anglicisms vs. internationalisms.
  4. Levels of formal adaptation, original forms of loanwords.
  5. Phonetic adaptation, pronunciation changes.
  6. Orthographical adaptation, relation of written and spoken forms.
  7. Morphological and syntactic adaptation, double forms of lexemes.
  8. Semantic adaptation, changes of meaning.

Literature (recommended – in Czech):

  • Nový akademický slovník cizích slov. Praha: Academia, 2005.
  • BISCHOFOVÁ, J. – HASIL, J. – HRDLIČKA, M. Čeština pro středně a více pokročilé. Praha, 1999.
  • Čmejrková, S. a kol. Čeština, jak ji znáte i neznáte. Praha: Academia, 1996.
  • FILIPEC, J. – ČERMÁK, F. Česká lexikologie. Praha: Academia, 1985.
  • HAUSER, P. Nauka o slovní zásobě. Praha: SPN, 1986.
  • HAVRÁNEK, B. – JEDLIČKA, A. Stručná mluvnice česká. Praha, 2000.
  • LUTTEREROVÁ, J. Česká slovní zásoba a konverzační cvičení. Praha, 1994.
  • Příruční mluvnice češtiny. Praha: NLN, 2003.
  • Slovník spisovné češtiny pro školu a veřejnost. Praha: Academia, 2005.

Notes:

Requirements:

  1. participation in seminars;
  2. essay on topics dealt with in the seminars (4 p.).

Updated: 03. 10. 2022