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Walloon in Belgium : current situation of the language
Brodinová, Anna ; Štichauer, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Loucká, Hana (referee)
Title: Walloon in Belgium: current situation of the language Author: Anna Brodinová Department: Institute of Romance studies Supervisor: PhDr. Jaroslav Štichauer Number of characters: 76 772 Keywords: Walloon, language, dialect, Belgium, sociolinguistics Abstract: The objective of this thesis is to describe the current situation of the walloon language in Belgium. The Walloon is a Romance language, closely related to French. Both languages have existed in close vicinity for centuries and have influenced one another. Mostly since the beginning of the 20th century the Walloon has been oppressed by the more dominant language. That is one of the reasons why it is gradually dying out. The theoretical part of the thesis provides general sociolinguistics definitions. It deals with distinctions of the terms of a dialect and a language, with issues of diglossia, language minorities and revitalisation of a language. It introduces Walloon and its evolution, language characteristics, literature and current activities trying to save it. The empirical part describes the research work which was accomplished by the means of a questionnaire method. It summarizes methodological proceeding of the preparation and of the distribution of the questionnaire. The questionnaire focuses on the walloon interlocutors, on the walloon...
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The language in M. B. Landstad's edition of Norwegian ballads: dialectal and Old Norse features
Korecká, Lucie ; Svevad, Thor (advisor) ; Starý, Jiří (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyse the language features in M.B. Landstad's edition of Norwegian medieval ballads that are different from the present-day standard Norwegian, and to determine which of these features correspond to the living Telemark dialect of Landstad's time, and which are vestiges of Old Norse and Old Norwegian. The hypothesis is that the folk poetry that Landstad collected in the Telemark district bears not only features of the local dialect, but also has, due to its bound form (rhythm, rhyme), kept some of the language features from the time of its origin (14th/15th century) up to the time of collection (the middle of 19th century). The thesis concentrates on the analyse of various language features in the field of morphology, sound changes and vocabulary. The analysis and classification of the language features will proceed on the basis of literature about the historical development of Norwegian dialects and by comparison with other texts written in the Telemark dialect and texts written in Old Norse and Old Norwegian.
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Specific grammatical features in Irish English
Mudrochová, Aneta ; Šaldová, Pavlína (advisor) ; Gráf, Tomáš (referee)
The theoretical part of this thesis deals with the description of specific morphological and syntactic features of Irish English. The list of non-standard features is based on contemporary literature and is comprehensive in number. The aim of this part is to provide a synchronic account of contemporary non-standard features which occur in the Republic of Ireland. The frequency of selected features is proved via the Irish branch of the International Corpus of English. The British National Corpus is used occasionally as a means of comparison with British English. In the practical part the non-standard features are traced in use. The list of specific features found in three plays by contemporary Irish dramatists is provided with a brief commentary. The specificity of these features is verified via works established in the field of the grammar of English.
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Language means of social differentiation of characters in literary translation. Alfred Döblin: Berlin Alexanderplatz
Patočková, Veronika ; Winter, Astrid (advisor) ; Svoboda, Tomáš (referee)
This thesis is devoted to a relatively little explored issue - the social differentiation of literary characters and the transfer of its linguistic means. The language material for exploring this field of translatology was provided by Döblin's novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1928) and by two translations into Czech (1935 and 1968). We analyzed utterances of two characters. The first one represents a lower social class and criminal environment. In his speech the analysis showed many elements of Berlin urbanolect which were used for his social characterization. The second character represents the Jewish ethnic group. His direct speech contains elements of literary Yiddish, alluding to his Jewish origins. The subsequent utterance analysis of the first character in Czech translations showed an appropriate use of common Czech as a substitute for Berlin urbanolect in both translations. The analysis was set in the context where the usage of nonstandard elements in Czech and translated literature used to be a convention. Both translators followed these conventions successfully. When translating the literary Yiddish in the direct speech of the second character, significant differences in both translations were discovered. In the first translation the Yiddish elements were not replaced. In the second...
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Notional ambivalence in the work of Scottish writer Alasdair Gray Translation and stylistic analysis
Zeisek, Adam ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Matuchová, Klára (referee)
This BA thesis is concerned with the translation of A history maker, a novel by Alasdair Gray and interpretation and analyses of the methods of translation which were used. It is divided into two parts. The first one is the translation itself which is the main part. The second part deals with the analyses of the translation and methodology that was applied. It focuses on the translation of Scottish dialect and informal speech. The thesis is predominantly aimed at demonstrating some standard translation approaches and practices, using the chosen textual material.
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The issues of student´s slang
RŮŽIČKOVÁ, Pavla
Bachelor's thesis focuses on the analysis of current student slang. It contains two parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part discusses the language, Czech language and its units. It also focuses on the general characteristics of slang, its distribution and the slang description of student environment. The content of the practical part is the analysis of the collected material to this topic. The analysis is based on a survey of slang for second-degree of primary schools and lower grades of multiannual gymnasiums compared to the slang of university students.
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The Specific Language in the Region Boskovice
NIKLOVÁ, Monika
This bachelor thesis focuses on the analysis of common spoken language in the area of Boskovice. The thesis is divided into three parts. The first, theoretical, part deals with the definition of national language and with basic features of the dialect used in central Morava. The second, metothodological, part describes methods of practical research. In the third part, which can be specified as practical, author analysed recorded and transcribed material of spoken language among people of different ages and made analysis at all language levels. The goal of this bachelor thesis is to qualify the degree of dialect´s haleness across all age-groups in chosen locations of Boskovice.
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The phonological dialectal elements of the Southwest Bohemian Dialectal subgroup´s Western part on the example of the municipality Poleň´s (in Klatovy district) inhabitants´s language
FRANTA, David
The aim of the study is the analysis of the rural language of the inhabitants, born in the 1920´s to the 1960´s, of the municipality Poleň (villages Poleň, Poleňka, Zdeslav) in Klatovy district.This dialectal material was collected on the basis of author´s body of work. This included elements such as audio-recordings of speeches, oral history and of the responses to the survey conducted by the author. Its questions were concentrated on the phonological traits of the Southwest Bohemian dialectal subgroup. Taking into account the Jaroslav Voráč´s pieces of dialectal work, the dialectal elements were structured to the vowel and consonant system and differentiated to the categories reflected the Czech language´s historical development. This study focused with respect to equalizing phonic tendencies different of the contemporary Czech language standard. The individual dialectal traits´ frequency was measured by means of the tables and their state was evaluated. The research found out the some dialectal elements´ active knowledge in the responder´s language, but their total decrease compared with the analogous researches from the 1950´s. From a linguistic perspective, it is possible to conclude that the researched localities fall into the wider area of the Southwest Bohemian dialectal subgroup´s western part. Furthermore, this view takes into consideration the negligible influence of the dialectal micro-region with the centre in Domažlice.
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Spoken language in the Ostrava region
FROLOVÁ, Taťána
This bachelor?s thesis on the topic of Mluva Ostravska (Ostrava Dialect) is intended to survey the contemporary language, everyday speech, in Ostrava and its surroundings. We can suppose that both the influence of colloquial Czech language as well as Lachian dialect, although used inconsistently, makes this region a very interesting area from the lingvistic point of view. In the practical part, I have focused on the group of respondents divided into three age groups. The first group from 15 until 25 years of age, the second from 25 to 50 years of age, and the third from 50 years of age higher. In all the three groups I have included both males and females coming from Silesian dialect group. The survey studies attitudes of the respondents to their ability to distinguish between the standard Czech language and the Ostrava dialect. It focus on questions which help us find out if it causes problems for them to speak the standard language in everyday use and finally on their views on the popular media-mentioned Ostravak?s website . I have chosen this topic mainly in order to study if the dialect difference influences its user?s attitude towards Czech spelling, and if the dialect features cause more or less trouble in using concrete spelling patterns for the users.
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