Analýza článků Františka Čermáka věnovaných jazykové kultuře

• Authors: Chromy Jan

Title variants

EN

AN ANALYSIS OF FRANTISEK CERMAK'S ARTICLES ON LANGUAGE CULTIVATION

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article is concerned with texts by Frantisek Cermak devoted to issues of Czech language cultivation. Four major topics are analyzed: standard vs. common Czech, written vs. spoken Czech, prescriptivism and the native language of Czechs. Various problems in the analyzed texts result from an unclear methodological background. Many concepts are used without argumentation: Cermak fails to substantiate their suitability for his language description. We can find uncorroborated generalizations which can be interpreted as Cermak's communicative strategy. Many statements are rather impressionistic and are not based on relevant language observations. With regard to these findings, the author of this paper argues that a deep-reaching dialogue should be held, which may help to clarify the indeterminate situation in Czech linguistics concerning issues of language cultivation.

Keywords

EN

CERMAK FRANTISEK; COMMON CZECH; LANGUAGE CULTIVATION; NATIVE LANGUAGE; PRESCRIPTIVISM; SPOKEN LANGUAGE; STANDARD CZECH; WRITTEN LANGUAGE

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 70
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 128-139
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Chromy Jan

• Jan Chromy, UCJTK FF UK, nam. Jana Palacha 2, Praha, 116 38, Czech Republic, http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/4265/

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09CZAAAA060424