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Catch phrase as part of Czech phraseology
Chen, Yu Ju ; Kopřivová, Marie (advisor) ; Hasil, Jiří (referee)
DIPLOMOVÉ PRÁCE Ústav bohemistických studií Title of thesis: Catch phrase as part of Czech phraseology Author: Yu Ju Chen Study program and grade: Second year of master program Thesis advisor: PhDr. Marie Kopřivová, Ph.D. Keywords: catch phrase, film, Czech phraseology, vocabulary enrichment Hypotéza: The older the movie the quote comes from, the more it is used by the older generation. The younger the movie, the more the quote is used by the younger generation. Abstract In the diploma thesis "Film quotations as part of Czech phraseology," we deal with film quotations that appear not only in films but are used in everyday communication. The entire work aims to investigate what role movie announcements play and whether their popularity is influenced by age. The theoretical part of this work focuses on the definition of film quotations from different points of view: memetics, phraseology, and linguoculturology. Then, in the form of a questionnaire survey, it is determined in which situations speakers use these quotes and the difference between using quotes from newer and older films. The research shows that the hypothesis of this work is partially confirmed. That is, age affects the popularity of the use of announcements but does not affect the familiarity with movie announcements. Therefore, the...
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English Idioms of Comparison in Corpus Data
Emmer, Jaroslav ; Klégr, Aleš (advisor) ; Kopřivová, Marie (referee) ; Malá, Markéta (referee)
This thesis presents a corpus-based investigation that focuses on adjectival similes. As similes are often overshadowed by metaphors, the existing research on similes using empirical evidence is relatively scarce. The presented work provides a complex account of adjectival similes in corpora using data from multiple heterogeneous sources. The methodology for mining adjectival similes from corpora is thoroughly described, along with the associated pitfalls. As every corpus requires a different approach, the CQL query designs are presented individually for each researched corpus. The corpus-based mining yielded a list of 309 unique adjectival similes. The obtained data are subjected to meticulous scrutiny in the form of both formal and content analyses. Following a statistical overview of the data collected from each corpus, the 60 most frequent similes are presented in detail, including their meanings and functions, typical targets, related similes, and frequencies. These similes are then searched in respected online dictionaries, and the findings suggest that dictionaries struggle to keep up with corpus evidence. The formal analysis shows a strong preference for monosyllabic constituting elements. Regarding their content, adjectival similes can be divided into five general ground- centred groups...
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Comparison of Czech and Slovak proverbs based on the paremiological minimum
Michálek, Jiří ; Kopřivová, Marie (advisor) ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (referee)
The work focuses on the comparison of the most frequently used proverbs in Czech and Slovak. Based on the paremiological minimums of Schindler (1993) and Ďurčo (2005) a "paremiological minumum of Czech and Slovak" was created, including 37 pairs of proverbs. The data collection took place in a subcorpus of Czech corpus syn_v11 and Slovak subcorpus prim-10.0-public-vyv. The subcorpuses were adjusted to have a balanced representation of different types of text. The aim of this work is to compare the frequency and variants of the 37 proverbs in Czech and Slovak. The most frequent variants of Czech proverbs are also divided based on their text type (newspapers nad journals, fiction and science). The prediction is high appearance of proverbs in newspapers and journals. The work is a first step to a systematic comparison of Czech and Slovak proverbs.
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A contrastive description of English and Czech using the methodology of n-gram extraction
Šebestová, Denisa ; Malá, Markéta (advisor) ; Březina, Václav (referee) ; Kopřivová, Marie (referee)
This dissertation examines phraseological patterns in three registers (parliamentary debates, newspaper reporting, children's fiction) in English and Czech. It identifies and analyses recurrent word sequences through n-gram extraction, aiming to characterise the phraseology of each register and compare them cross- linguistically, while observing how the n-gram method can be adapted to accommodate for the typological properties of each language. Czech is particularly challenging in this respect due to its morphological and positional variability. The dissertation comprises three case studies, each focussed on a different register. The first case study explores different n-gram lengths using a small corpus of a specialised register - parliamentary debates, suggesting that for a comprehensive register characterisation, different lengths should be combined. It notes the importance of discourse-structuring patterns and the problem of overlaps between n-grams. In the newspaper study, I extract n-grams containing prepositions - a convenient starting point given their frequency and involvement in text- structuring. N-grams are complemented with collocation analysis, revealing some evaluative prosodies and semantic preferences of patterns and suggesting that the newspaper register is not purely...
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Particles in spoken languages
Adamovičová, Ana ; Čermák, František (advisor) ; Kopřivová, Marie (referee) ; Bermel, Neil Halford Andrew (referee)
The goal of this thesis is to map a theme, which has not been systematically explored enough by Czech linguists so far. It deals with the material of the Prague Spoken Corpus (PSC), which contains a series of records of authentic spoken language. The thesis presents primarily a comprehensive description of particles, which can be found in the PSC, their semantic classes based on their real occurrence in the natural speech context. It further describes their collocability and syntagmatic relations, including their valency, thus more adequately explains their function in the commonly spoken language. Attention is also paid to their frequency and preferred use within the scope of particular combinations of sociolinguistic parameters, i.e. four variables (sex, age, education and type of discourse) which determined the selection of speakers on recordings to make their combinations as balanced as possible. Some particles are homonymous with other parts of speech - the extent of homonymy and its context dependency just as the processes of particulization are described in the contextual usage of particles and adverbs. The results in terms of the frequency of usage were compared with the frequency of occurrence in the written corpus SYN2005. The presentation of particles in dictionaries of Czech language was...
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The Role of Angels in the Old Testament
Kopřivová, Marie ; Scarano, Angelo (advisor) ; Hřebík, Josef (referee)
The role of angels in the Old Testament Abstract: The aim of this paper is to describe the role of angels in the Old Testament, based on the Czech translation of the Bible. For this purpose, we searched the contexts containing the expressions the angel of the Lord, the angel of God and angel. The Bible Kralická was choosen as the base translation. The basic roles of the angel of the Lord in the Old Testament are: to announce the birth of the son, God's will or instructions; to save life; to lead and protect the Israel nation; to execute punishment. In the apocalyptic books he appears as an interpretation angel. In all this roles he acts as a God's servant which stands on the side of the God. Keywords: Old Testament, role of angels, the angel of the Lord, the angel of God, messenger
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Angels in the Bible. The Role of Angels in biblical texts
Kopřivová, Marie ; Scarano, Angelo (advisor) ; Větrovec, Pavel (referee)
The Diploma thesis Angels in the Bible. The role of angels in biblical texts tries to describe the role of angels in the Bible based on the contexts containing the term angel. Then it analyzes and briefly characterizes individual texts of the Old and New Testament in which the term angel occures. With the help of this analysis it is possible to observe what role did the angels serve: they announced the birth of a son, God's election, God's commands, they become the life savers, leaders and protectors of the Israel nation and executors of God's punishment. An angel - interpreter acts in the apocalyptic texts. In the New Testament, angels also announce the birth of Jesus and John the Baptist, announce the God's will to people, they announce the resurrection and protect the church similarly to Israel. The most angels figure in the Book of Revelation and they play all roles known from apocalyptic literature: angel - interpreter, angel - guardian, as well as angels who participate on the heavenly council and effect the judgement according to the God's commands.
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Valency frames of Czech nouns: corpus-driven study
Čermáková, Anna ; Petkevič, Vladimír (advisor) ; Panevová, Jarmila (referee) ; Kopřivová, Marie (referee)
This thesis aims at providing a lexicological framework for systematic description of valency of Czech nouns. Valency is seen here as a lexicological property of words. Valency is an abstract relation with concrete textual realizations and the term "valency" is used here for both: the abstract notion and the concrete valency exponents and realisations. The analysis is corpus-driven and as such it is based on a rather loose notion of valency, devoid of any pre-conceived ideas, concentrating on typical structural patterns of occurrence on the right side of the noun under investigation. For the analysis the corpus SYN2000, a part of the Czech National Corpus has been used. The analysis is based on random selections of concordance lines of randomly chosen 99 nouns from the middle frequency range. In some cases, where the data proved insufficient, we have carried out additional specialized corpus queries. For high frequency nouns we assume highly differentiated valency profiles; to confirm this hypothesis we have carried out additional brief analysis of several high frequency nouns. The most frequent valency of Czech nouns is genitive complementation, which we find as occurring with more than 90% of the analysed nouns. For some of the nouns, the genitive valency is a very dominant valency pattern (in some cases...
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Particles in spoken languages
Adamovičová, Ana ; Čermák, František (advisor) ; Kopřivová, Marie (referee) ; Bermel, Neil Halford Andrew (referee)
The goal of this thesis is to map a theme, which has not been systematically explored enough by Czech linguists so far. It deals with the material of the Prague Spoken Corpus (PSC), which contains a series of records of authentic spoken language. The thesis presents primarily a comprehensive description of particles, which can be found in the PSC, their semantic classes based on their real occurrence in the natural speech context. It further describes their collocability and syntagmatic relations, including their valency, thus more adequately explains their function in the commonly spoken language. Attention is also paid to their frequency and preferred use within the scope of particular combinations of sociolinguistic parameters, i.e. four variables (sex, age, education and type of discourse) which determined the selection of speakers on recordings to make their combinations as balanced as possible. Some particles are homonymous with other parts of speech - the extent of homonymy and its context dependency just as the processes of particulization are described in the contextual usage of particles and adverbs. The results in terms of the frequency of usage were compared with the frequency of occurrence in the written corpus SYN2005. The presentation of particles in dictionaries of Czech language was...
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Angels in the Bible. The Role of Angels in biblical texts
Kopřivová, Marie ; Scarano, Angelo (advisor) ; Větrovec, Pavel (referee)
The Diploma thesis Angels in the Bible. The role of angels in biblical texts tries to describe the role of angels in the Bible based on the contexts containing the term angel. Then it analyzes and briefly characterizes individual texts of the Old and New Testament in which the term angel occures. With the help of this analysis it is possible to observe what role did the angels serve: they announced the birth of a son, God's election, God's commands, they become the life savers, leaders and protectors of the Israel nation and executors of God's punishment. An angel - interpreter acts in the apocalyptic texts. In the New Testament, angels also announce the birth of Jesus and John the Baptist, announce the God's will to people, they announce the resurrection and protect the church similarly to Israel. The most angels figure in the Book of Revelation and they play all roles known from apocalyptic literature: angel - interpreter, angel - guardian, as well as angels who participate on the heavenly council and effect the judgement according to the God's commands.
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