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Semiotic and anthropological analysis of Prague metro
Brabcová, Adéla ; Marcelli, Miroslav (advisor) ; Šafaříková, Radana (referee)
Presented diploma work called "Semiotic and anthropological analysis of Prague metro" shows metro to a reader as a place from a semiotic point of view. A metro "user" plays a key role in the whole diploma work. Apart from dealing with metro as a place, this work also regards a reference of a fixed structure of metro to a city. The work also pays attention to an analysis of signs that can be found there by a metro user and can serve him as a useful tool for better orientation there. In the theoretical part semiotics as a science and its approaches are being presented. The diploma work also deals with a topic of a city from an antropological point of view. It applies, for example, a question of place and nonplace, picture of a city or a map and itineraries. The applied part of the work presents use of the theory in Prague metro. It also deals with orientation, navigational sign systems and comunication systems. Other topic examined in this diploma work is a role of Prague metro and its city surroundings in a mental city mapping done by its user. Besides, the work shows the metro and its surroundings as a place of everyday life. Keywords: Semiotics, sign, communication, binary opposition, connotation, denotation, text, city, image map, places and non-places, place and space, map, itinerary, everyday...
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Theatrical Signs in the Performance "The Education of Little Tree"
Axmanová, Petra ; Marcelli, Miroslav (advisor) ; Švantner, Martin (referee)
The thesis examines a sign and its theory, focusing on the function of sign in art, particularly in theatre. Both communication conditions and meaning production are covered. The practical part analyzes particular theatrical signs in 'The Education of Little Tree' performance. Selected parts of the performance are examined in detail with regards to the theatrical signs and generating meaning in terms of work with gesture. Further it studies changes of actors' characters and as well as analogue and digital communication. It deals with the question how to create a wide range of characters and settings while using only a very limited selection of props, coulisses and costumes. The results of nonverbal communication analysis are presented in the conclusion of the thesis.
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Facebook and the elections. The analysis of a self-presentation of the Czech political parties before the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in 2010
Báčová, Petra ; Marcelli, Miroslav (advisor) ; Nováková, Martina (referee)
The elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic on 28th and 29th May 2010 was called Facebook elections. The reason for such title was the scale of usage of Facebook by the political parties for their campaigns. The thesis Facebook and the elections. The analysis of a self-presentation of the Czech political parties before the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in 2010 focuses on a semiotic analysis of Facebook accounts of some political parties and their chairmen. During the monitored period Facebook presentations were presented by the Civic Democratic Party, the Czech Social Democratic Party, TOP 09, the Public Affairs party, Christian Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People's Party and the Greens. The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia was not officially registered on Facebook. We also analyzed Facebook pages of Mirek Topolanek (ODS), Petr Necas (ODS), Jiri Paroubek (CSSD), Karel Schwarzenberg (TOP 09), Radek John (VV), Cyril Svoboda (KDU-CSL) and Ondrej Liska (SZ). We call Facebook a viral social network. We analyzed it as a cyberspace with an ambivalent structure which influences the mean of a communication process before elections. Rhizomatic map of Facebook is comparable with a topology of a virtual cafe. We also...
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Le Corbusier's Architectural and Urban Visions in perspective of Semiology
Štěpánková, Anna ; Marcelli, Miroslav (advisor) ; Váša, Ondřej (referee)
of Diploma Thesis "Le Corbusier's architectural and urban visions in a semiological perspective The subject of this thesis is a semiological analysis of Le Corbusier's text Towards a New Architecture. It methodologically follows semiological conceptions of Ferdinand de Saussure and Roland Barthes. The main methodological source is a work of French theoretician of architecture and urbanism François Choay, The Rule and the Model (1997), in which she has stated three paradigms, which according to her, influenced forming of modern urbanism as an autonomous science: genre of architectural treatise, utopia and scientific discourse. For each of these discursive forms she has identified characteristic signs. Le Corbusier is considered as a symbol of modern movement of architecture and urbanism, who broke away from an old tradition and brought to realm of architecture and urbanism a new insight. The fundamental question of this thesis is, whether this innovative approach could be found also in his texts, in the manner how Le Corbusier wrote about architecture and urbanism, or whether Le Corbusier followed an old tradition. This question should be answered in the course of searching for the signs of mentioned paradigms postulated by F. Choay.
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Power: Is it Necessary to Defend Foucault?
Švantner, Martin ; Kouba, Petr (advisor) ; Marcelli, Miroslav (referee)
This master's thesis is concerned with the partial issues of Michel Foucault's work in respect to his major issue, which is the concept of power. The introductory part of the thesis points out the "naive approach" of some fields of politology, in particular empirical and analytical ones, which as "the science of power" either leaves out or provides only positivist analyses. At the same time it suggests the relationship between power, discourse, exclusion and mediation, which is the key one for the whole paper. In oder to enhance the understanding of the power relations, the thesis attempts to provide insights into Foucault's thought in its complexity. Finally, his basis for understanding the power and discourse relation is interraleted with those of Ulrich Beck, which enables us to approach this relation as appears in the late modern society from a new perspective.
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Classical Film Narration
Sladký, Michal ; Bernard, Jan (advisor) ; Marcelli, Miroslav (referee)
The major subject matter to be pursuded in this master's thesis is the classical film narrative, the boom of which is represented by classical Hollywood cinema. This thesis aims to prove that this style has maintained its privileged position also after 1960 and has been effective in the digital era despite of the revolutionary technological changes. It attempts to defend the hypothesis that Hollywood cinema keeps the principles of classical narrative style regardless the digitalization and blockbuster films affecting it.
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Airport as Universe of Signs: Semiotics and pragmatics of urban space
Čerkovská, Regína ; Marcelli, Miroslav (advisor) ; Palek, Bohumil (referee)
The diploma paper "Airport as a universe of signs (semiotics and pragmatics of urban space)" offers a semiotic view on an international airport and analyses the signs which can be encountered within this specific area. The theoretical part introduces semiotics as a scientific discipline in a historical pesrpective from its beginnings to today. Sign, a crucial unit of all semiotics is defined and the diadic and triadic approaches are compared using the cases of two of semiotics' great personalities, F. de Saussure and Ch. S. Peirce. The basic binary opositions are explained and the topic of surveillance is addressed. The practical part is an application of the theoretical knowledge - an actual area si analysed. This part discovers and analyses the signs used in the Prague Civil International Airport and it seeks polarities permitting to examine the present binary opositions. It also addresses the control and surveillance typical for airports. This gives an opportunity to the reader to better know and understand the signs present in the area as well as to apprehend the principles of the airport's semiotic model applicable to all comparable places.
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An Introduction to the Main Terms and Problems of "Surveillance Studies" (according to D. Lyon)
Zwyrtek, David ; Marcelli, Miroslav (advisor) ; Slavíček, Daniel (referee)
The main aim of this diploma thesis is to articulate the basic problems and terms of the "Surveillance Studies". The grounds of the discipline are described in eight subchapters according to one of the founders of the discipline prof. David Lyon. Gradual formation and development of the surveillance and the surveillance society, relationships between surveillance and modernity, Foucault's conception of panoptism and Orwell's Big Brother are outlined in this point. Later on are specific terms of "Surveillance Studies" explained and applied on real cases of the systems of surveillance. The application of the terms on the real cases should prove the hypothesis, that actual shape of the theory of surveillance is no more sufficient.
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Interpretation Problem of Photograph
Roubal, Martin ; Fišerová, Michaela (advisor) ; Marcelli, Miroslav (referee)
This dissertation explores technical images (visual products of modern technologies - photographs, television screens and computer monitors). The main theme is the interpretation of the photograph. The forms of exploration used are phenomenological and semiotic. The key philosophers, whose ideas are developed, are Vilém Flusser and Paul Virilio. The main thesis is: Analog photography has, as opposed to other forms of media, a clearly defined and specific denotation but a very undefined connotation. To phenomenologicaly grasp the entity of a photograph means to allow oneself to be vulnerable and experience it deeply. Digital technology has basically changed the realistic principle of photography. Technical images have altered the human perception of the world. Any communication of content remains unsatisfactory from the interprative point of view. No communicator has ever been a one hundred-per-cent reflection of reality. Every form of communication is undoubtedly influenced by the used medium and by human subjectivity. Through excessive use of technical images, the technically realized representations of objects become more real than the objects themselves for some of its users. This dissertation agrees with the above mentioned theses.
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