Applied Linguistics of theFrench Language

Teachers

Included in study programs

Teaching results

Knowledge:
- Acquiring of knowledge of trends in modern linguistics with overlap into 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).
Competencies:
- Acquisition of the competence to characterize applied linguistics and its place in modern linguistics, with emphasis on its relationship to traditional linguistic disciplines in the context of the development of linguistics.
- Acquisition of 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 mother tongue or foreign language).
- Acquisition of 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 importance of the branches of applied linguistics in language research
 Basics of semantics and its reflection in language practice
 The position and importance of the branches of applied linguistics in language research
 Basics of semantics and its reflection in language practice
 Basics of textual linguistics and corpus linguistics and their reflection in language practice
 Basics of cognitive linguistics and its reflection in language practice

Support literature

Required
1. CHISS, Jean-Louis- FILLIOLET, Jacques - MAINGUENEAU, Dominique. Introduction à la linguistique française. Paris: Hachette. 2017. 192p.
2. MELUŠOVÁ, Elena. Initiation à la linguistique française. Bratislava: Ekonóm. 2018. 85p.
3. ZUFFEREY, Sandrine. – MOESCHLER, J. Initiation à la linguistique française. Paris:
Armand Colin. 2021. 252 p.
Optional
1. BOYER, Henry. Introduction à la sociolinguistique. Paris: Dunod. 2017. 140 p.
2. CARON, Jean. Précis de psycholinguistique. Paris: PUF. 2016. 272 p.
3. MAINGUENEAU, Doiminique. L’énonciation en linguistique française. Paris: Hachette. 2017.160 p.
4. MERCIER, Arnaud. La communication politique. Paris: CNRS Éditions. 2017. 274 p.
5. QUÊME, Philipe. Vertus et perversions françaises du discours politique... Plaidoyer pour
un discours „vrai“. Paris: L’Harmattan. 2008. 258 p.
6. ZUFFEREY, Sandrine. – MOESCHLER, Jacques. Initiation à l’étude du sens. Sémantique et
pragmatique. Auxerre: Éditions Sciences Humaines. 2012. 256 p.

Requirements to complete the course

Interim evaluation: 30%
Final evaluation: 70%

Student workload

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

French

Date of approval: 09.02.2023

Date of the latest change: 06.05.2022