The Russian Language of the 21st Century I 3202-S2OJR11e
The aim of the course is to improve and extend the students’ prior knowledge of the contemporary Russian language as well as to equal the level of knowledge of the individual students that have come to the second-cycle studies from different centres and fields of study.
Range of topics:
1. The principles of language development. The influence of socio-cultural factors on the form of a language.
2. The lexical varieties of a language: native/borrowed and stylistically marked/neutral vocabulary.
3. Borrowings: the reasons behind and their types (loan words proper, translation loans, semantic loans, word coins) and their level of assimilation.
4. Main trends in the development of Russian’s lexical resources. Notions of neologism, occasional words, barbarism, exotism, ethnographism.
5. The Latin alphabet in Russian writings. Mixed Latin-Russian expressions.
6. The groups of vocabulary that undergo a rapid change.
7. The fields of research of linguistic phenomena. Linguistics in comparison to other sciences. A survey of linguistics-related disciplines.
8. The contemporary scientific paradigms. Structuralism and cognitivism.
9. A language system – a norm – an usage.
10. The hierarchical language structure. Language subsystems: phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactical. The units of a language and the units of a text.
11. The specificity of Russian phones. New phonetic phenomena. Variants of pronunciation.
12. Orthographical variants. Divergence between dictionaries. The problem with the letter ë [jo].
13. The essential terminology in the synchronic word formation.
14. The active word formation particles. Trends in contemporary Russian word formation (univerbation, suffixation, prefixation, shortening, compounding, acronyms).
15. Slots and paradigms in word formation.
Type of course
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
KNOWLEDGE
1. Knows theoretical notions and methods used in describing linguistic phenomena.
2. Has a sound knowledge of trends in the development of the contemporary Russian language.
3. Knows and understands linguistics’ relation to other branches of science and the liberal arts.
4. Knows and understands the rules concerning the analysis of Russian texts on various levels of the linguistic description.
SKILLS
1. Knows the relation between the theoretical linguistic devices and specific linguistic phenomena.
2. Identifies and properly interprets (with the use of linguistic terminology) various phenomena in contemporary Russian and is able to compare them to those that take place in the Polish language.
3. Knows how to find the linguistically reliable sources that confirm the lingual form and the meaning of neologisms.
ATTITUDES
1. Understands that there is a need for constant attention to linguistic changes and to keep his or her linguistic knowledge up-to-date.
2. Accepts and understands the need for language to constantly adapt to the changing world.
3. Has a rationalist attitude towards the linguistic changes.
Assessment criteria
lecture = 30 hours (= 1 ECTS)
independent preparation for each class: 15 x 1 hour = 15 hours
preparation for the exam: 15 hours
TOTAL: about 60 hours
1. Continuous assessment (current preparation for classes and activity) – 20%
2. Test. Questions: 32. Max points: 160 (32x5) – 80%
Points and marks:
3,0 (dst) – from 81 to 96 points
3,5 (dst+) – from 97 to 112 points
4,0 (db) – from 113 to 128 points
4,5 (db+) – from 129 to 144 points
5,0 (bdb) – from 145 to 160 points
Final grade 5! (bdb+): current preparation for all classes and marks 5,0 of test.
Practical placement
not applicable
Bibliography
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Khimik V.V., 2004, Bol'shoi slovar' russkoi razgovornoi ekspressivnoi rechi, Moskva.
Kuznetsov S.A., red., 2014, Bol'shoi tolkovyi slovar' russkogo yazyka, Sankt-Peterburg; http://www.gramota.ru/
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Sklyarevskaya G.N. (ed.), 2006, Tolkovyi slovar' russkogo yazyka nachala XXI v., Sankt-Peterburg.
Russian language portals: gramota.ru, ruscorpora.ru
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