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Kurt Vonnegut and His Humor in Three Literary Works and Their Cinematic Adaptations
Samková, Jana ; Roraback, Erik Sherman (advisor) ; Veselá, Pavla (referee)
This bachelor thesis compares three different cinematic adaptations of three novels by an American writer Kurt Vonnegut and focuses on the way they translate the humor of the three novels. The novels discussed are Mother Night (1962), Slaughterhouse Five (1969), and Breakfast of Champions (1973). The cinematic adaptations analyzed in this thesis are Slaughterhouse Five (1972) directed by George Roy Hill and based on a screenplay written by Stephen Geller, Mother Night (1996) directed by Keith Gordon and based on a screenplay written by Robert B. Weide and finally Breakfast of Champions (1999) directed by Alan Rudolph who also wrote the screenplay. The analysis as such is divided into four chapters. Chapter 2 introduces Kurt Vonnegut as an author as well as a person. Several key theories about humor are presented, mainly those articulated by Paul Lewis, Daniel Wickberg and Sarah Blacher Cohen. The phenomenon of cinematic adaptation is introduced in the same section and the theoretical background provided is based on works by Timothy Corrigan, Brian McFarlane and Seymour Chatman. Chapter 3 discusses the novel Slaughterhouse Five and its adaptation, focusing on its structure, themes, characters, time frame and humor. In Chapter 4, Mother Night is discussed in terms of the successfulness of Gordon's...
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TV Sitcom Friends: Analysis of character humor strategies based on the violation of Grice's Conversational maxims
Šmilauerová, Anna ; Pípalová, Renata (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
Anna Šmilauerová: TV Sitcom Friends: Analysis of character humor strategies based on the violation of Grice's Conversational maxims Abstract The purpose of this diploma thesis is the analysis of the humor strategies employed by the characters of Phoebe and Chandler in the TV Sitcom Friends. The discovered prevailing strategies were then compared with the personalities of the two characters. The data analyzed were the written script of five exemplary episodes from the Season 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9, in which the utterances eliciting laughter from the audience were thoroughly analyzed from the point of Grice's Cooperative Principle: only those utterances were considered in which the characters violated one or more of the conversational maxims (quality, quantity, relation and manner). Phoebe was found to violate most often the maxim of relation, thus it is her being non-factual and non-conventional that constitutes her most entertaining quality. As she develops and grows more mature as a character, the frequency counts of this humor strategy evince a descending tendency. Chandler, on the other hand, is mostly being ironic, violating the maxim of quality. His character also gradually changes but his sense of humor remains the same - ironic throughout the show, as follows from the instances of almost fixed frequency....
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Humour in Karel Poláček's proses
Moutvicová, Natálija ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Bischofová, Jana (referee)
Natálija Moutvicová Humour in Karel Poláček's Proses This work presents the works of one of the most popular czech writer and journalist Karel Poláček in the backround of his tragic life. The author's works devide to journalistic works, literary works and works for film and theater. This work contents analysis of humour as a specific kind of comics in Karel Poláček's writings. The term "humour" is defined by the theory of Henri Bergson,Vladimír Borecký and others. Particularly detailed is engaged in his short stories and supreme humorous novels. This work compares two author's creative periods and studies the development of his humour. It focuses to themes, motives, typical characters and the distinctive style artistic practices of author. Poláček's humour is directed against cliché and phrases. This work tries to compare the Poláček's humour with humour in the works of other czech authors from twentieth century.
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Using Nothing We Want to Change the the World
Lacina, Štěpán ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
This work focuses on the evolution of Dada and its manifestation in Czech literature, especially in the twenties of the twentieth century, but, of course, it focuses on later manifestations too. It focuses on the main features of dadaism, like abhor technics, mysticism and rituality, destruction, universality, dada language or humour. Application of dada to czech discourse would be unable, without defining these features. This work focuses on real or potential dadaistic manifestations and theoretical reception in the czech discourse, which is represented by Karel Teige on the side of oppositors and the Devetsil group of Brno on the side of propagators. The last chapter is about the relations between dadaism and carnival culture, that wat theoretically formulated by Bachtin. I focuses especially on identical properties. Key words: Dadaism, carnival culture, humour, destruction, manifesto.
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Humour during the French classes
Hanzlíková, Dana ; Klinka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Machleidtová, Silva (referee)
anglicky : Title of the thesis : Humour during the French classes Keywords : Comic, irony, humour, laughter, Henri Bergson, Louis Cazamian, gelotology, gélothérapie, sense of humour, French as a foreign language, school class, word play, joke, riddle, tongue twister, didactical sheet. Abstract : The thesis aims to provide a comprehensive description of possible use of humour in teaching the French language. In the theoretical section, it defines humour as a form of comic, deals with the influence of humour and laughter on health and describes the advantages and difficulties of integrating humour into school teaching. In the practical part, it analyses the humour in French textbooks, proposes a typology of humour in teaching materials and presents finally didactical sheets to teach French at all language levels. These exercises and activities are dedicated to all speech and language skills. They are focused on different themes to captivate the target age category and meet the requirements to be fun for students. The thesis should become aid and inspiration for those teachers, who decide to incorporate humour and laughter in the teaching of French.
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Stereotypes in the Works of Jára Cimrman
Bulejová, Hana ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Činátlová, Blanka (referee)
This thesis deals with the dramatic work of Jara Cimrman, which is based on the cooperation of two authors named Zdenek Sverak and Ladislav Smoljak. In the introductory chapters we analyze the genesis of mystifying legend named Jara Cimrman, then his way from the radio show to the theatre and also his own cult, which all leads to the general poetics of the Theatre of Jara Cimrman. We can find some related attributes in this theatre, like specific acting, phenomenon of their workshops and imaginative humour. All of these attributes leads to the definition of repetitive stereotypes in the plays of this theatre. In this thesis we also try to define the genre of the plays, also their subject matter, topics and their motives. The aim of this thesis is to describe these motives and also its gradual progress as in the particular dramas, so in the social atmosphere of those days.
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New internet humours
Tomášová, Lucia ; Švelch, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Kruml, Milan (referee)
Subject of this thesis is a phenomenon of a new digital world - internet memes. These are concept spreading from one user to another through new media. As a source of memes serves for this work the club New Internet Humours from discussion forum nyx, we introduce on a few selected examples the main differencies between memes and traditional approach to humour, perhaps even to communication in general.
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Language Humour in Advertising
Čimingová, Radka ; Holanová, Radka (advisor) ; Janovec, Ladislav (referee)
Title: The Language Humour in Andvertising Author: Radka Čimingová Department: Department of czech language and literature Supervisor: PhDr. Radka Holanová, Ph.D. Abstract: The presented work deals with linguistic analysis of means that frame humour in printed advertising. The analysis of the language humour is based on a selected advertising sample. This sample was used to identify, classify and specify individual linguistic means in more detail. Humour is interpreted as a play on words that is built around updating, change, intentional breaking of established rules, incongruity and around the relationship between language and extralinguistic reality. This play resulting in a comic tone of the advertisement concerns meaning as well as graphic form of individual linguistic means, usage of different varieties of lexis, intertextual connection and the relationship between words and pictures. The work covers all these aspects of the linguistic play on words as well as describes the theoretical context in which the play takes place and specifies the basic terms connected to the subject of the thesis, i.e. advertising and humour. Keywords: Advertising, Humour, Language
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Comic Discourse in Laurence Sterne's Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Taubrová, Eva ; Procházka, Martin (advisor) ; Nováková, Soňa (referee)
This thesis discusses the comic discourse in Laurence Sterne's novel The life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. It shows the way in which the theories of the comic of Henri Bergson and Sigmund Freud are applied in this novel. In Tristram Shandy, the principles of the comic of Bergson and Freud do not function in their usual manner; they are fulfilled by the structure and the process of narration. The comic in this novel is also enhanced by the fact that aspects of narration that are usually static and unchanging throughout a novel (such as the nature of the narrator) gained dynamism in Tristram Shandy. This dynamism offers a space for the structural comic to origin. The comic of Tristram Shandy also draws from the principle of association. This novel inspired later theories of humour and the comic in general.
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Indices of Advertising Virality
Konvalinková, Monika ; Linhart, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Jeřábek, Zbyněk (referee)
This Bachelor's thesis measures the change in the attitude to and memorability rate of a product or a service promoted with humorous advertising in comparison with informative advertising. In the theoretic part are defined terms such as advertising, humour in advertising, attitudes and memory. In the practical part I investigate the change in the attitude and rate of remembering comparing two commercials using a questionnaire survey. These commercials are: a humorous commercial from T-mobile and an informative commercial from O2, i.e. commercials from competitors promoting similar services focusing on the same sort of customers. This survey is aimed at students. The research results are subsequently used for improving commercials defining possible deficiencies of both spots in terms of memorability of the brand and service.
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