Analýza článků Františka Čermáka věnovaných jazykové kultuře

• Authors: Jan Chromý

Title variants

EN

An analysis of František Čermák’s articles on language cultivation

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article is concerned with texts by František Čermák 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: Čermák fails to substantiate their suitability for his language description. We can find uncorroborated generalizations which can be interpreted as Čermák’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

CS

spisovná čeština; obecná čeština; preskriptivismus; rodný jazyk; psaný jazyk; mluvený jazyk; jazyková kultura; František Čermák

EN

standard Czech; common Czech; prescriptivism; native language; written language; spoken language; language cultivation; František Čermák

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: 128-138
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jan Chromý

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic