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History of the Spanish language norm and its codification
Rýdlová, Lenka ; Čermák, Petr (advisor) ; Zavadil, Bohumil (referee)
This dessertation shows basic characteristics of Spanish language norm and its development during more than five centuries. Spanish norm is also confronted with the Czech context. In the first chapter we pointed out the polycentric character of Spanish language norm, which is caused by a big amount of native speakers spread in three continets. This type of norm is common for languages that exceed borders of one country. Literary Spanish unites all Spanish native speakers, it is unders-tood by all of them, it is a language of literature, mass media and for-mal locution, and this language is studied in codification manuals. Li-terary Czech is also uniform all over the Czech Republic, but is not used at all in common conversation, in which unambigously dominates popular (vulgar) language. Popular Czech is nowadays spread more or less all over the country, therefore in the Czech kontext there are two national languages: literary Czech and popular Czech. On the contrary, Spanish popular language is very limited, which is also caused by the activity of mass media that spread literary language. We can see that in Spanish context the situation is completely contradictory: literary Spanish influences popular Spanish, not vice versa like in the Czech context. We proceeded with a short summary of Spanish grammatical...

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