Original title: Analýza anonymizačních strategií v angličtině
Translated title: Forensic analysis of anonymization strategies in English
Authors: Volná, Veronika ; Popelíková, Jiřina (advisor) ; Klégr, Aleš (referee)
Document type: Master’s theses
Year: 2016
Language: eng
Abstract: [eng] [cze]
The objective of this thesis is to identify those specific aspects of written style which native speakers of English modify when attempting to anonymize their texts. The conclusions are based on the analysis of 20 texts by 10 authors, all of whom are native speakers of English. Two texts dealing with the same topic were produced by each participant; one was written as an official letter of complaint, and the other was written as an anonymous letter. The bulk of the results are grounded on a qualitative stylistic analysis of the individual texts, with merely a brief survey of quantitative methods.The purpose of the introductory chapter is to familiarize the reader with the subject of forensic authorship analysis, to provide a brief summary of the current state of research, and to introduce a series of empirical studies. The practical part of the thesis presents the qualitative stylistic analysis, provides a shorter summary of the quantitative analysis, and finally ventures to draw meaningful conclusions from the results. The results showed that the majority of authors manipulated with the style/register of the texts and with the specific lexical choices, whereas none of the 10 authors made alterations to spelling and only 2 authors chose to change the punctuation in the anonymous text. However,... Cílem této práce je identifikovat konkrétní rysy psaného projevu, vychází z analýzy napsaných 10 autory, z . poskytnuty dva dopisy popisující stejnou situaci jeden í, a druhý anonymním dopisem. litativní stylistic kterou dopl krátká prezentace kvantitativních metod. Úvodní kapitola si klade za cíl forenzní analýzy autorství ických studií. e je utím kvantitativní analýzy, a . slovní zásoby, zatímco neupravoval pravopis, a pouze dva v anonymním textu interpunkci. kterými jsou vel , nebo , motivace . anonymiza ní strategie, forenzní lingvistika, ur ení autorství, idiolekt
Keywords: anonymous texts; forensic linguistics; idiolect; textual analysis; anonymní texty; forenzní lingvistika; idiolekt; textová analýza

Institution: Charles University Faculties (theses) (web)
Document availability information: Available in the Charles University Digital Repository.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/82248

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