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Theatre Slang, Idioms and Superstitions
Kratochvíl, Karel ; Císař, Jan (advisor) ; Tichý, Zdeněk (referee)
This master thesis of acting of alternative and puppet theatre surveys the professional theatre speech, clarifies the mening of more than 500 terms, especially the slang, idioms and superstitions. List of the jargon focuses on a recent vocabulary of czech theatres taking account of some elder expressions. Author tries to figure out the origin and ethymology of the words took over from foreign languages. The phrases and idioms were not only given by professionals during personal consultations but also comes from a personal author?s experiences and they correspond to a living usage in time of writing of this thesis. The theatre superstitions derive from different sources and are mentioned to muse more then give an exhausting linguistic explanation.

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