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Pragmatic analysis of humorous air traffic control conversation exchanges
Doležal, Jakub ; Zmrzlá, Petra (oponent) ; Sučková, Magda (vedoucí práce)
The thesis studies the occurrence of humour in air traffic control (ATC) conversation exchanges and aims at answering the questions of its occurrence in such strictly professional discourse and finding patterns in it. This is done though pragmatic analysis for which theoretical background is provided in the first part of the thesis. Phenomenon of humour is discussed according to Attardo (1994), and its three main theories are presented: incongruity, superiority, and release (Raskin 1985). Division is established between different instances of humour: canned and conversational jokes (Attardo, 1994) and externally humorous situations. Grice’s (1975) Cooperative Principle (CP) and its Maxims is described in detail and is related to humour. Focus is on the transgressions of the CP: mainly violation, flouting and infringing. Attardo’s (1990) scheme of understanding a joke is adopted and modified for conversational humour. After introduction of ATC language, the analyses follow. Each consists of four parts: technical circumstances, humorous scheme, CP perspective, and theory of humour. The analysed conversations are divided into two groups: internally humorous and externally humorous. The first are further divided based on the use of a specific shared knowledge of the external world and the second based on the theory better explaining them: superiority or incongruity. With the focus on the internally humorous, the abilities and personality of the ‘humourist’ are proposed as crucial for the occurrence of humour with the main intention being to create more relaxed atmosphere (corresponding to the release theory of humour).
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Dialects of English in computer games
Opanasiuk, Yevhenii ; Walek, Agata (oponent) ; Sučková, Magda (vedoucí práce)
This bachelor thesis deals with the analysis of the English dialects that appear in video games. Its aim is to analyze the use of different dialects in the Grand Theft Auto game series. The theoretical part is focused on providing the necessary concepts related to sociolinguistics, varieties of the language, dialects, accents, and game industry. The practical part is focused on the linguistic analysis of the English dialects that appear in the GTA game series. This analysis identifies game characters' dialects from a grammatical and phonological perspective and explains the reasons that led game developers to choose those dialects.
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The Language of Patent Documentation
Gubernát, Tomáš ; Sučková, Magda (oponent) ; Smutný, Milan (vedoucí práce)
The subject of intellectual property can be very complicated. This bachelor’s thesis focuses mainly on intellectual property from a scientific and industrial standpoint and the discourse of patent documentation. This thesis aims to provide an overview and a quick guide for any potential applicants for patents or any other types of intellectual property described in this thesis - be they from the public or scholarly. This thesis is further focused on the analysis of the language of the patent documentation, which is very nuanced, and caveats encountered during the creation of patent application, during the grant procedure, or even after the patent was granted.
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