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Selected Aspects of Colour Semantics in Folk Texts Collected in the 19th Century
Nováková Tomášková, Tereza ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (advisor) ; Vaňková, Irena (referee)
The thesis deals with the subject of semantics of colours in the Czech folk texts using theoretical and methodological framework of culturally oriented and cognitive approaches to language. In order to contribute to the research of the colour domain in linguistic picture of the world in Czech, semantic structure of colour concepts is examined using qualitative analysis of the occurrences excerpted from the corpora of the selected compilations of folk songs of the 19th century. The topic of radiance and visual salience of colours and their manifestations in the source material is discussed as well. Furthermore, the thesis examines if conclusions concerning the usage of colour terms in folk texts drawn by the studies based on the folklore of other Slavic languages can be applicable to the Czech material.
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Language Games Developing Competence in Czech Language for Schoolchildren with a Different Mother Tongue
Lisá, Markéta ; Škodová, Svatava (advisor) ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (referee)
The master's thesis deals with didactic games in teaching Czech for schoolchildren with a different mother tongue. The aim of the thesis is a set of didactic games which is divided to three parts: pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Firstly, the cognitive and language development of schoolchildren are characterised, primarily in relation to game. Afterwards, there are described game and its characteristics at schoolchildren. It is defined as a part of teaching methods and put into context of teaching foreign languages. The master's thesis theoretically deals with the situational sylabus which was created for the practical part. The games, which are introduced in the practical part of thesis, are adaptations of games intended for different school subjects. These games were pre-tested by group of schoolchildren, they were changed on the basis of teacher's feedback if needed and then made to methodical description.
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Poison and Poisoning in the Czech Linguistic Worldview
Pohorská, Iva ; Vaňková, Irena (advisor) ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (referee)
The bachelor thesis focuses on the semantic sphere of poison and poisoning in Czech language. It is based on theoretical and methodological principles of cognitive linguistics and ethnolinguistics. In connection with the natural, common, (naive) perspective of the linguistics worldview, the beginning also briefly outlines the scientific perspective since the naive perspective refers to it and reflects it. The first part of the text focuses on data collection and description of data dictionaries of Czech language followed by analyses of Czech jed, otrava, trávit lexems (and their word-forming and semantic derivates). The second part of the text outlines, based on the analyzed data, connotations related to the main lexems of this sphere. The attention is also paid to conceptual metaphors that are related to this semantic sphere.
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Mutual communication of students of Czech as a foreign language during their work in pairs
Rosenová, Anna ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (advisor) ; Valková, Jarmila (referee)
The following MA thesis is concerned with the interaction among students of Czech as a foreign language in classes of low proficiency and working in pairs. It mainly concentrates on the process of overcoming obstacles that arise during communication. The objective of the thesis is to examine the students' choice of communication strategies and describe the process of negotiation of meaning. In order to achieve that, an analysis of transcribed recordings of interactions during a language lesson was made. During the lesson students had to complete two two-way tasks, which should offer as many opportunities to negotiate meaning as possible. Keywords: Czech as a foreign language, interaction, negotiation of meaning, communication strategies, pair work
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Methods supporting self-awareness and cultural awareness of students in lectures of Czech as a foreign language
Jonášová, Alena ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (advisor) ; Šormová, Kateřina (referee)
This thesis deals with the integration of the cross-curricular topic of personality and social education into the teaching Czech as a foreign language for pupils of the elderly school age, especially at the second level of elementary schools and in grammar schools. The first part introduces personality and social education, its aims and its importance in learning. Furthermore, the theoretical part deals with the teaching and integration of pupils of elderly school age with a different mother tongue in the Czech educational environment. The second part of the thesis contains a description of model teaching lessons combining the teaching of the Czech language with personal and social objectives and their evaluation. Another content of this diploma thesis is a set of other activities that teachers can use to integrate personal and social education into the teaching of Czech as a foreign language and possible suggestions as to work with personal and social education in teaching Czech as a foreign language. The aim of the diploma thesis is to make a proposal to involve the methods of personality and social education in the teaching of Czech as a foreign language in order to develop together with the language competence also the self-awareness and cultural awareness of the pupils and to offer activities...
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Czech as a Foreign Language in Speakers with L1 Spanish
Halanová, Eva ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (advisor) ; Čermák, Petr (referee)
This Master's thesis is focused on selected factors in fluencing the learning of Czech language as a foreign language for speakers whose mother tongue is Spanish. It focuses on adult respondents aged between 25 and 40 years with a minimum level of B1. The theoretical partrepresents a brief overview of a second language learning approaches (SLA) and the relevant basic terminology.An overview of factors influencing the SLA follows and endsby own suggestion of categorizing factors for research purposes which this thesis deals with. Finally, communicative competences and selected levels of language levels A2, B1, B2 and C1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages are introduced. The research part is realized by 5 semi- structured interviews through which the factors that play a significant role in the study of Czech as a foreign language are scrutinised from the point of view of the participants in the research. It is mainly about the evaluation of their own language/communication competencies, experience with teaching and about motivation to learn Czech. The uploaded and transcribed interviews are characterized by language analysis at the level of language levels. Keywords Czech as a foreign language, factors influencing SLA, interview, communicative competence,...
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Figurative Names in Contemporary Czech Christian Literature for Children
Vlasáková, Lucie ; Bozděchová, Ivana (advisor) ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (referee)
This bachelor's dissertation analyzes the lexical content of contemporary Christian literary works for children. It looks at a corpus of prose story books (original stories, rather than re-told Bible stories), intended for children aged 6-12 that were published between 1990 and 2017. It focuses on figurative names (metaphors and symbols), which are used to help children understand basic Christian truths and terminology (heaven/paradise and eternal life, hell, satan, the Bible) and the persons of the Holy Trinity. It also examines the most frequently used metaphors (contrasting terms such as light and darkness, cleanliness and dirt, wide and narrow pathways) and the symbolism of colour. The metaphors are assessed from the perspective of their origin (in particular to what extent they are rooted in the Bible) and on the basis of their cognitive function, judged from their use within the book's content. The work maps the market for this type of literature and provides an annotated list of existing titles. Key words: figuration; figurative names; Christian literature; literature for children; metaphor; symbol; Christianity; Bible
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The influence of editorial processing on understanding the text of Babička (The Grandmother) by elementary school pupils
Sotlová, Jana ; Adam, Robert (advisor) ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (referee)
(in English) Diploma thesis The Influence of editorial processing on understanding the text of Babička (The Grandmother) by elementary school pupils focuses on selected editions of Božena Němcová's Babička published after 1989, which are intended for schools and children readers. The primary aim of the thesis is to determine whether the editing arrangements of the Grandmother have influence on its understanding by the pupils of the second level elementary school. The secondary aim of the thesis is to find out whether pupils in the current teaching of the Czech language are familiar with the text of Babička and in what form is the text made accessible to them. Theoretical part of the thesis characterizes the relationship of contemporary Czech readers to Božena Němcová and Babička on the basis of research of reading preferences and attitudes of the general public to non-required reading, which is followed by the description of the practice of compulsory and recommended reading at elementary schools and the publishing practice of non-required reading. The theoretical part concludes with a commented overview of the children editions of Božena Němcová's Babička focusing on two contemporary editions of Babička intended for children - one by Fragment Publishing House from 2011 and another one by Práh...
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Linguistic features of speakers of Klub Rádio Junior
Machurová, Martina ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (advisor) ; Synková, Pavlína (referee)
The following diploma thesis addresses linguistic speech in the children's program at the Radio Junior Club. The first section describes verbal expressions, defines basic theoretical concepts related to the stratification of Czech language, defines child listeners with a focus on the pre-school development period as well as the primary and middle school period and also explains the concept of child-oriented speech. The structure of Czech Radio and individual programs at Radio Junior with emphasis on the Radio Junior Club are described at the end of the theoretical section. The practical section contains two analyses describing the moderator's language and how it is responded to positively according to sound level, lexicology, morphology and syntax. The recordings were taken from the Czech Radio archive and the ORAL2013 transcriptional system, which was adapted for analysis purposes, was used to transcribe the spoken language. The results of the analyses were compared and generalized along with findings in expert literature.
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Communication in Kindergarten: Selected Communicative Situations
Josífková, Lenka ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (advisor) ; Šormová, Kateřina (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with communication in kindergarten in selected communicative situations. The first part defines basic theoretical terms and, based on previous research, summarizes findings about pre-school education and mental and language development in pre- school children. The thesis also explains factors that influence language acquisition, child directed speech and pedagogical communication. The second part's main focus lies in describing communicative situations and in qualitative analysis of the acquired data - video recordings of selected communicative situation. The pocess of recording took place after previous agreement with two kindergartens. The recordings were transcribed according to the modified manual for the DIALOG database. The analysis is focused on the nature of the pedagogical communication in kindergarten. Our findings were compared to previous research results. Keywords communication, pedagogical communication, language acquisition, child directed speech, kindergarten
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