Applied Linguistics of the English Language

Teachers

Included in study programs

Teaching results

Teaching results:
Knowledge:
- Acquisition of knowledge about trends in modern linguistics with overlap to other disciplines (e.g. semantics, textual linguistics, cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmalinguistics, neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics, politolinguistics, corpus linguistics),
- Acquiring knowledge of the concepts and selected theoretical foundations of the linguistic disciplines of applied linguistics (e.g. prototype theory, speech act theory).
Competence:
- Acquiring the competence to characterize applied linguistics and its position in modern linguistics with emphasis on its relationship to traditional linguistic disciplines in the context of the development of linguistics.
- Competence to identify and assess the current contribution and further potential of the knowledge of applied linguistics to the investigation of the principles of human language functioning (e.g. processes of speech production and comprehension, processes of acquisition of native or foreign language).
- Acquiring the competence to explain the possibilities of applying the knowledge of applied branches of linguistics in linguistic communication and in the process of its improvement.
Skills:
- Acquisition of the ability to comprehensively apply the acquired knowledge and competences in the production of one's own linguistic expression in the target language.

Indicative content

- The position and significance of branches of applied linguistics in the study of language
- Essentials of semantics and its reflection in language practice
- Essentials of textual linguistics and corpus linguistics and their reflection in language practice
- Essentials of cognitive linguistics and its reflection in language practice
- Essentials of sociolinguistics, pragmalinguistics and politolinguistics and their reflection in linguistic practice
- Essentials of neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics and their reflection in language practice

Support literature

Support literature:
Required:

1. GRIFFITHS, P. An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics. Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press. 2006.
2. BAKER, P. Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2006.
Optional:
1. PINKER, S. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language. London: Harper Perennial Modem Classics. 2000.
2. McCULLOCH, G. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language. Montreal: Riverhead Books. 2019.
3. de BEAUGRANDE, R. Text Linguistics and New Applications. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 11, 17-41. 1990. doi:10.1017/S0267190500001938

Requirements to complete the course

Interim evaluation: 30%
Final evaluation: 70%

Student workload

Total study load (in hours):
Full-time study: 156 hours Of which:
52 hours – attendance at seminars
32 hours – preparation for seminars and for the interim evaluation
72 hours – preparation for the final exam

Language whose command is required to complete the course

English

Date of approval: 08.03.2024

Date of the latest change: 06.05.2022