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The communication of deaf through text messages
Růženská, Helena ; Macurová, Alena (advisor) ; Stará, Radka (referee)
The bachelor thesis is of a theoretical-analytical nature and deals with the communication of the deaf through text messages. The theoretical part sets out the notions of a language and communication, namely those of language communication, communicative functions and the factors influencing the style of communicative means. In the theoretical part, the main features of the communication through short text messages are defined with the focus on the language features typical for Czech language. The findings on the written Czech of the Czech deaf are summarised. The theoretical part, consequently, serves as a basis for the analytical part of the thesis that focuses on an analysis of the short text messages of the deaf that are either of a private, or official character. The collected text messages are examined from three main viewpoints: the functions they carry, the stylistics they apply and the extend, if any, to which they reflect characteristic features of text messages. The aim of the analytical part is to look for, and possibly, find tendencies in the written Czech of the deaf, i.e. in their short text messages. The end of the bachelor work is then devoted to the interpretation of the findings that gives rise to several issues for future possible discussion.
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Specific Features of Czech Deaf People's E-mail Communication in Official Communication Situations
Lavičková, Blanka ; Komorná, Marie (advisor) ; Macurová, Alena (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the stylistics of the written Czech used in e-mail correspondence by the Czech deaf. The main attention is focused on formal communication situations that take place on the intercultural level, i.e. between the non-deaf and deaf participants in communication. The aim of the thesis is to find out what stylistic means occur in situations with varying degrees of formality, and to what extent the deaf writers are familiarised with the stylistic standards of Czech - language that is foreign to them. The starting material comprises 185 e-mails from 67 deaf authors whose native or preferred communication language is Czech sign language. Keywords: Czech sign language, e-mail communication, deaf participant in communication, official communication situation, written Czech, stylistic means
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Neurobiological foundations of language comprehension system: Embodied cognition
Kubík, Tomáš ; Macurová, Alena (advisor) ; Kalvach, Pavel (referee) ; Mertins, Barbara (referee)
Dissertation Neurobiological foundations of language comprehension system: Embodied cognition Abstract First part of the dissertation describes classical neuroanatomical structures of language processing. From an anatomical perspective, language comprehension system consists of many cortical and subcortical areas. Currently, new technologies depict pictures of bundles of nerve fibres connecting the brain eloquent structures. This line of research supports ideas about cognitive functions mediated by large neuronal networks. Part two focuses on the description of several important non-linguistic cognitive systems that are involved in the analysis of spoken language. Another aim of this part of the text is to monitor the actual language representations and their processing in the language comprehension system. Comprehension is viewed as a process of advancing from perception to creation of mental images (simulations) representing the outcome of this process in a healthy population. Part three takes into account lesion studies that are primarily focused on the manifestations of specific language symptoms in people with aphasia, right hemisphere damage, and dementia. The three distinct neurological units (in terms of damage localization) constitute three different types of disturbances in language understanding...
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Work Instructions from the Perspective of Text Comprehesion
Benediktová, Diana ; Hudáková, Andrea (advisor) ; Macurová, Alena (referee)
The thesis deals with Work Instructions from the Perspective of Text Comprehesion. It gives the description of Work Instructions in general, then focuses on two specific kinds of Instructions - Recipes and Consumer Medicine Information. Information about Vocabulary, Syntactics, Semantics, Coreference and Inferences are involved. There is a research of Text Comprehension in the empirical part of this thesis, it is divided into two parts, one for each kind of Instruction. This thesis draws on findings of Czech and foreign linguists.
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Oral components in the Czech sign language
Mareš, Jindřich ; Macurová, Alena (advisor) ; Richterová, Klára (referee)
The present bachelor's thesis analyzes oral components (also referred to as mouth gestures) in the Czech sign language. These are defined as all movements of mouth used in Czech sign language that do not have source in Czech spoken language. At the beginning of this thesis, the author puts his attention on definitions of oral components in comparison with other means of Czech sign language, which with they share the same place of articulation - especially in regards to so-called mouthings. In next chapters, the author concentrates on formal and semantic characteristics of observed means, their differentiation and processes, which can have effect on their forming. That is followed by discussion about the role and status of language oral components in Czech sign language, proposal for record of these means and their selective overview. The purpose of this thesis is to make first insight into the issues of oral components in Czech sign language, supported by foreign and Czech professional literature and provide basis for future research.
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Information on Personal Pronouns in Czech Grammar Books
Kubeková, Michaela ; Macurová, Alena (advisor) ; Adam, Robert (referee)
This dissertation compares information on personal pronouns provided in grammar books, general linguistic analyses, dictionaries, and other essays and studies dealing with this topic. The first chapter examines seven Czech grammar books, from which information relating to personal pronouns (including spheres which relate only tangentially to personal pronouns, e.g. the formulation of the pronominal subject, the category of grammatical person, deixis, anaphora, the coherence of a text, etc.) is extracted and compared. The second chapter looks at information contained in five general linguistics manuals, and the third chapter is concerned with the information given in the three most popular dictionaries. Information contained in other publications and essays related to the topic of personal pronouns (including several foreign periodicals) is cited in the form of footnotes to the individual chapters. By way of conclusion this dissertation seeks to characterise the main divergences between the individual types of publications examined and summarise the basic differences (or similarities) in their approaches.
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Motivation of selected Prague city's toponyms in Czech sign language
Hejlová, Lenka ; Hudáková, Andrea (advisor) ; Macurová, Alena (referee)
Práce "Motivovanost vybraných toponym hlavního města Prahy v českém znakovém jazyce" se věnuje jedné z oblasti onomastiky - vlastním jménům zeměpisným, a to znakům pro stanice metra hlavního města Prahy (hodonymům). Práce zkoumá podstatu a princip fungování motivovanosti v českém znakovém jazyce, důraz klade na vizuálně motivované znaky. Cílem práce je i zkoumat a případně klasifikovat, jaké pojmenovávací postupy využívají znaky označující stanice pražského metra.
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Myths and prejudices about Czech sign language
Herynková, Jitka ; Hudáková, Andrea (advisor) ; Macurová, Alena (referee)
This bachelor work focuses on myths and prejudice concerning Czech sign language and communication among deaf people in general. This work is divided into a theoretical and practical part. In the theoretical part, the author follows the development of chosen myths regarding this topic in Czech and Slovak literature published from 1900 until 1995 and tries to disprove them on the basis of present scientific, especially linguistic, literature. In the empiric part, the author aims to map, with the help of questionnaire inquiry, how the myths and prejudice in the above mentioned scientific literature spread in the awareness of both lay and pedagogical public
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Delimitation of Text in Czech Linguistics
Bednářová, Hana ; Macurová, Alena (advisor) ; Mareš, Petr (referee)
The goal of bachelor's thesis is to capture how the term text is comprehended in Czech linguistics with respect to the broader context of foreign treatises. The attention is paid to the problems of text definition, some of its characteristics and terminological competitors in approach of different authors. Even the text related concepts such as groups and complexes of text, dialogue, context and hypertext are accounted for. The thesis also focuses on the text linguistics, its evolution and relation to other related branches of linguistics. On top of this all, many different ways of text comprehension in the different selected grammar handbooks of Czech are acquainted and confronted.
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