Topic 3 Flashcards
Anglistika (English studies)
a professional study of English at an academic level
Josef Václav Sládek
1st Czech teacher of English at Prague University
Václav Emanuel Mourek
1st Czech germanist at a university level, taught practical english as well
The Prague School
established in 1926 by Vilém Mathesius
How is the teaching of Prague School often characterized?
functional strcturalism
Vilém Mathesius
founding father of Prague School, 1st Professor of English at Prague University
Language characterology
full description of the function of a language
Vilém Mathesius - dílo
Obsahový rozbor současné angličtiny na základě obecně lingvistickém
Members of Prague School
Mathesius, Trnka, Havránek, Jakobson, Trubetzkoy, Wellek, Mukařovský
Followers of Prague School
Vočadlo, Vachek, Poldauf, Firbas,
Otakar Vočadlo
Shakespeare (editor in chief), A guide to Karel Čapek in Britain (Anglické listy)
Josef Vachek
founding the English dept. at MUNI, 1st professor of English at MU, Brno studies in English
Ivan Poldauf
Professor at Palacký University, Česko-anglický slovník
Jan Firbas
Vachek’s pupil, Brno, theory of Functional Sentence Perspective
Jens Otto Jespersen
Growth and structure of the English language