Language as an object of research and an instrument of communication
- Credits: 10
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 16sC
- Semester: summer
- Year: 1
- Faculty of Applied Languages
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
Results of education:
The course focuses on active scientific research reflection on a set of selected relevant theoretical assumptions in the field of linguistics of the language under study and on the possibilities of their practical grasp within the framework of a specific research question in the relevant doctoral thesis.
Knowledge:
After completing the course, the student knows the structure and relationships in the system, knows the system characteristics of the studied language, historical and cultural contexts, principles of functioning of the applied language, can have a deeper understanding of the linguistic system of the studied language, and on this basis has an overview of the possible theoretical bases conceived in the field of linguistics and its related disciplines, important from the point of view of the chosen topic of the doctoral thesis.
Competencies:
The student can critically assess existing linguistic theories in an interdisciplinary context, is able to select appropriate theoretical starting points, and assess their potential for solving his/her research question, is able to reflect on the possibilities of applying theoretical aspects in practice; in the context of the acquired knowledge, he/she is also able to apply the studied language in various communicative situations and purposefully work towards an optimal communicative effect.
Skills:
They are able to propose their own innovative ways of grasping the research question and to translate them into concrete solutions to the topic of their doctoral thesis; at the same time, they are able to apply the acquired knowledge in the production of their own linguistic expression in the target language in such a way that this linguistic expression is appropriate for the specific communicative situation. Acquire theoretical and practical skills applicable in professional practice.
Indicative content
- structure and typological characteristics of the selected language
- comparative and contrastive approach to the study of the structure of a given language
- variability in a given language, reflection of diachronic processes in synchrony;
- the functioning and use of the selected language;
- stratification of the selected language (dialects and registers of the selected language)
- diversification of the culture of a given language community and its language
- status and prestige of the chosen language, ecology of languages, languages in contact
- the linguistic areas of a given language;
- language policy regarding the language in its different speech communities
- language as an object of research from a system-linguistic, pragmalinguistic, cognitive-
linguistic and cultural turn perspective
- selected theoretical backgrounds from the field of linguistics (chosen in the context of the
specific topic of the PhD thesis), such as prototype theory, figure and ground theory, frames
and scripts theory, theory of conceptual metaphor, construction grammar, etc.
- methodology of selection and application of theoretical foundations for the solution of the
PhD thesis' own research question
Support literature
Základná literatúra:
1. Consoli, S.; Ganassin, S. (2023): Reflexivity in Applied Linguistics: Opportunities, Challenges, and Suggestions. New York: Routledge.
2. Crystal, D. (2019): The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, 3. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
3. Crystal, D. (2017): Language and the Internet. 2.ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4. Oniga, R. L. (2014): A Linguistic Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
5. McCarthy, M. (2001): Issues in Applied Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Doplňujúca literatúra:
1. Handford, M.; Gee, J. P. (2023): The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis. 2. Ed. New York: Routledge
2. Wen, X.; Taylor, J. (eds.). (2021). The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
3. Widdowson, H.G. (2000): Object language and the language subject: On the mediating role of Applied Linguistic. In: Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 20: 21-33.
Requirements to complete the course
The final evaluation is based on the elaboration of the project plan (40%) and the final work (60%).
Student workload
260 hours (10 ETCSx26 hours)
Consultations: 16 hours
Preparation for consultations: 26 hours
Assignment processing: 108 hours
Final study processing: 108 hours
Consultations for the final study: 2 hours
Language whose command is required to complete the course
English - Russian
Date of approval: 17.01.2025
Date of the latest change: 17.12.2023