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Opposition "homo - animal" in language. Contribution to the Czech linguistic picture of the world
Šťastná, Lucie ; Vaňková, Irena (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
This diploma thesis aims to contribute to the research of the Czech language picture of the world. It is based on fundamental theoretical and methodological resources of cognitive and cultural linguistics and focuses on the opposition of "man - animal", or "human - animal", in the Czech language, aiming to illustrate the way in which zooappellatives (animal names) relate to the reality of the human world. The most extensive part of the thesis is based mainly on an analysis of Czech dictionary material (etymological, reference, synonym and phraseological dictionaries), as well as comparing the scientific (biological) classification of animals to the categorization in natural language. In regard to the category ANIMAL, the thesis establishes four basic domains constituting the category's conceptual model (framework): "the place where the animal lives", "physical traits", "the animal's behaviour" and "relation to man". The thesis also includes questionnaire-based research that focuses on analysing the way in which speakers of the Czech language understand the category ANIMAL, and attempts to determine whether they regard some animals as more protypical than others.
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Indication of female gender in new names of professions
Kožuriková, Daniela ; Bozděchová, Ivana (advisor) ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (referee)
The bachelor's thesis Indication of Female Gender in New Names of Professions is divided into two parts. The first one describes the indication of female gender in linguistics theory and presents main suffixes used for the indication of female gender. The second part tracks occurrence of the expressions excerpted from the vocabulary Nová slova v češtině 1 a 2 and the article Pojmenování nových profesí u pozic v oblasti ekonomiky a podnikání (v rusko- českém srovnávacím plánu) by Ljuba Mrověcová (2009). The expressions were searched for in the corpus SYN 2010 and Neomat database. Lists of names, both found and not found in the sources mentioned above follow. The meaning of less known names is explained in the alphabetical vocabulary.
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Quantitative Characteristics of Terms
Kováříková, Dominika ; Čermák, František (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee) ; Machová, Svatava (referee)
The new method of automatic term recognition TERMIT is focused not only on the high number of correctly labeled terms, but also on the most important attributes of a term (in terms of their role in automatic term identification process). The method is based on data mining, i.e. finding meaningful information in very large corpus data. It was able to both successfuly identify terms in academic texts and find constitutive features of a term as a terminological unit. The single-word term (SWT) can be characterized as a word with a low frequency in corpus (SYN2010) that occurs considerably more often in specialized texts of a given field than in non-academic texts, occurs in a small number of academic disciplines, its distribution in the corpus (SYN2010) is uneven as is the distance between its two instances. The multi-word term (MWT) is a stable collocation consisting of words with low frequency and contains at least one (and often more) single-word term. Based on the characteristics of SWT and MWT, it is possible to classify individual tokens in texts as terms or non-terms with a success rate of more than 95 %. Automatically identified terms can be used to identify percentage of SWT or MWT in different academic disciplines, as well as find terms shared by two or more domains in order to assess their...
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The Style of Arnošt Goldflam's Plays
Denková, Magdaléna ; Mareš, Petr (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
This thesis presents Arnošt Goldflam as playwright with a peculiar position in the Czech culture. It summarizes basic knowledge about nature and style of dramatic texts and, on the basic of this knowledge, deals with stylistic and linguistic analysis of the part of the author's works which are original dramatic texts. It's based on the corpus of twelve games, that represent this kind of his creative work from the 80's until recently. The objective of the thesis is to determine the basic characteristics and language instruments involved in the structure and meaning of each game. Based on the analysis of instruments stylish construction of various levels and areas of language it defines the most significant common features stylish of all included texts and also author's progression in the use of language and style formation. Goldflam's theater work is characterized not only by choosing subjects, but also in the way of their language and staging interpretation. Author's creative activity is still undone, the thesis offers a view of only the selected area of his work. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Neologisms motivated by names of political parties and movements
Kotková, Kateřina ; Martínek, František (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
This thesis describes new names of political parties and movements in Czech. The first part will summarize findings from the relevant literature. Material basis for the paper will be the database NEOMAT (ÚJČ AV ČR), on-line archive of media texts Newton Mediasearch, ČNK corpuses, available dictionaries and primary texts. Neologisms will be described according to word formation types. One part of this thesis will also be a comparison of the material of the thesis with material of selected dictionaries. Results will be summarized in a clear conclusion. Work will be in accordance with bibliographic standards. In the appendix of the thesis will be table of discovered words together with the number of their occurrences. Keywords: lexical enrichment, neologism, word formation type, word formation process, political party
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Conceptualization of Love in the Czech Popular Lyrics (Linguistic Picture of Love in the Lyrics of the Group "Lucie")
Kratochvílová, Veronika ; Vaňková, Irena (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
This master's thesis researches the linguistic image of love in lyrics found in Czech popular music based on the theoretical and methodological principles of cognitive linguistics. The theoretical section first characterizes the song lyrics of the band Lucie and then explores the context of cognitive linguistics. More specifically, this thesis characterizes the cognitivist concept and the application of metaphorical structures in both common language and creative texts. In the interpretational section, the concept of love is characterized by using a number of key lexemes which are used to express love in the Czech language. This section also describes the metaphorical and metonymical conceptualization of love in terms of the Czech image of the world. The conclusion deals with the profiles of the Czech concept of (erotic) love. This thesis mainly relies on theoretical and methodological tools included in the works of G. Lakoff, M. Johnson, J. Grady and M. Głąbska.
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Linguistic picture of flowers in Czech (Semantic connotations and prototypes)
Talafús, Martin ; Vaňková, Irena (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with linguistic picture of bloom, flower, rose and lily in Czech language. It is based on theory of cognitive linguistics, especially on theory of Semantic School of Lublin. Linguistic part of this thesis is based on the analysis of the Czech dictionaries (etymological, explanatory, synonymical and phraseological dictionaries) with the brief addition of the symbolism of rose and lily. This thesis discusses the scientific (botanical) classification of plants and compares it with meanings that are constituted in the naive picture of the world.
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Fraseological units with somatic component in the Czech language in comparison with the Russian language: cognitive aspects
Vitkovskaya, Veronika ; Bozděchová, Ivana (advisor) ; Petkevič, Vladimír (referee) ; Hasil, Jiří (referee)
Our work deals with the study of phraseological units in the Czech language in comparison with the Russian language. The first chapter outlines the main principles and terms of this work: it introduces selected classifications of phraseological units. Also the comparative analysis of somatic phraseological units in both languages according to the degree of equivalence is performed. Selected phenomena are examined: phraseological synonymy, antonymy, homonymy, variability and transforming. In the second chapter there is a list of somatic phraseological units selected for the study. The third chapter deals with the cognitive aspect in phraseology, anthropological linguistics and phenomenology. Based on the work by G. Lakoff and M. Johnson, Metaphors We Live By is discussed theory of metaphor. The important is anthropocentrism and bodycentrism of our world view, which is fixed in the phraseological units with somatic component. The last, fourth chapter presents the basic results of the cognitive research. The goal is to compare two world views: naive and scientific one. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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