Courses

The course pursues two main objectives: I) To provide students with a fundamental insight into lexicology as an academic discipline. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to define the core concepts of the discipline; list types of dictionaries and apply them in translation and text-based tasks; describe the model of the word as a linguistic sign as well as other theoretical models; categorize types of linguistic meaning according to various criteria and list fundamental groups of words based on semantic relationships; identify word-formation processes in the German language and determine the specific word-formation method used for selected words in a text; and characterize the German vocabulary, including its classification from international, temporal, regional, and social perspectives. II) To provide students with a fundamental insight into stylistics as an academic discipline. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to define the core concepts of the discipline; characterize microstylistics and macrostylistics along with their categories; list the primary procedures and methods of text analysis; and describe fundamental communicative domains (functional styles) including their corresponding text types (genres). Furthermore, students will be able to analyze texts from various communicative domains, infer the author's intent and the requirements placed on text recipients, interpret the function and meaning of individual stylistic devices, and compose a coherent text appropriate to a given topic and style.