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Finnish Epistemic Modals in Contrastive Perspective
Janoušková, Kateřina ; Fárová, Lenka (advisor) ; Čermáková, Anna (referee)
This corpus based diploma thesis takes stock of Finnish epistemic modal verbs voida, saattaa, taitaa and mahtaa and surveys their translational counterparts as they can be found in the parallel corpus InterCorp. The aim of the thesis is to find out what tendencies there can be found in the translation of the modals in question. In the theoretical part, there is, firstly, a description of both modality and modal verbs in Finnish and Czech, secondly, of the differences between the approaches to modality in both languages and, thirdly, of the features of translated language. In the analytical part, the translations are sorted out into categories based on the particular modal specifiers. The description of the different modal specifier categories follows.
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Consumer Contracts and possibility of withdrawal
Holeček, Václav ; Kotoučová, Jiřina (advisor) ; Vaněk, Jakub (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with the problematics of consumer contracts, the conception of which is relatively new in the Czech law system. The goal of this thesis is to give the reader the general idea about the principles of the consumer contracts problematics, its legal regulations and possibilities, how to defend oneself in particular situations, especially how to witdraw from the contract. The reader will learn, what actually consumer contracts are, who can be the participant of that contractual relations, then something about the legal institutes, which provide the protection to the consumer, especially we will focus on situations, when the consumer has the right to withdraw the contract. Due to the rising popularity of purchaces realized via internet is this thesis also going to devote to contracts made by the means of the communication at distance. Also contracts made out of the business premises are mentioned. In context of holidays we will mention also the contracts called time-sharing. At the end of the thesis we are to have a look at the most often types of consumer contracts, namely contract of purchase and contract for work, and how and when to withdraw from them.
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