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Spoken and Sign Language Interpreter Training in the Czech Republic and Austria
Horalová, Jana ; Čeňková, Ivana (advisor) ; Hynková Dingová, Naďa (referee)
The thesis focuses on possibilities of spoken and sign language interpreter training in the Czech Republic and Austria. The theoretical part describes the situation of the deaf in the Czech Republic and in Austria and explains the terms connected with communication of the deaf. Furthermore, it contains a brief overview of the history of spoken and sign language interpreter training and a description of the conditions for interpreters in both countries respectively. The most detailed chapters of the theoretical part deal with training institutions for spoken and sign language interpreters. The main focus is on the Institute of Translation studies at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague and the Department of Translation Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Graz. The empirical part presents the results of a questionnaire survey conducted among Master students of the two institutes who evaluated how well the university prepares them for their future career.
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Written Texts of Czech Deaf
Komorná, Marie ; Hádková, Kateřina (advisor) ; Souralová, Eva (referee) ; Bartoňová, Miroslava (referee)
The topic of the dissertation is the communication of the deaf in written Czech. The theoretical part presents the studies of written Czech for the deaf which have been carried out in the Czech Republic so far, considers the causes of difficulties the deaf encounter when making Czech written texts, and deals with the position of written Czech in the education of the deaf. The next part is devoted to the Czech sign language, the characteristics of its specifics and its role in the communication and education of deaf pupils, especially in connection with the currently valid legislation. Attention is also focused on the components and construction of narrative texts and on the acquisition of narrative competencies in spoken and sign languages. The research part is focused on the qualitative analysis of narrative texts in Czech, the authors of which are deaf pupils of two primary schools for the hearing impaired aged 14 to 16, and which were created on the basis of a picture story. As part of the analysis of written narratives, attention is focused on the specific features which make the written texts of the deaf different from the texts written by hearing Czechs. The phonic structure of words, vocabulary, the morphological and syntactic level, the ways in which deaf authors construct narrative texts...
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Spoken and Sign Language Interpreter Training in the Czech Republic and Austria
Horalová, Jana ; Čeňková, Ivana (advisor) ; Hynková Dingová, Naďa (referee)
The thesis focuses on possibilities of spoken and sign language interpreter training in the Czech Republic and Austria. The theoretical part describes the situation of the deaf in the Czech Republic and in Austria and explains the terms connected with communication of the deaf. Furthermore, it contains a brief overview of the history of spoken and sign language interpreter training and a description of the conditions for interpreters in both countries respectively. The most detailed chapters of the theoretical part deal with training institutions for spoken and sign language interpreters. The main focus is on the Institute of Translation studies at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague and the Department of Translation Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Graz. The empirical part presents the results of a questionnaire survey conducted among Master students of the two institutes who evaluated how well the university prepares them for their future career.
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Hearing awareness majority of deaf minority
Rollinger, Tomáš ; Levitová, Andrea (advisor) ; Majorová, Simona (referee)
Title: Hearing Awareness majority of the deaf community Purpose: The aim was to determine the level of awareness and knowledge of the majority hearing population of minority deaf population. The research focuses on three areas: the experience of hearing population of the deaf community, the culture of deaf people and deaf communication. Methods: The questionnaire was presented to 100 respondents. Was anonymous and age of the respondents was 15 years old and unidentified. The questionnaire was self- constructed . It was a quantitative research methodology type of observation. The results of the questionnaires were collected after a personal touch, from processed and analyzed using statistical program EXCEL, and then presented in tabular and graphical form. Results: Respondents from the Ústí region have confirmed by their answers two hypotheses and one hypothesis disproved. Confirmed hypothesis related to personal experiences with the hearing majority deaf community. Personal experience of respondents in excess of 50%, even moved above this high a percentage point. The remaining two hypotheses concerning the communication and culture of deaf people (both 50%), were refuted, since awareness of respondents was not so good. According to previous research about the situation of deaf people and the...
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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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