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Lexical and Stylistic Features of the Language of Sport
Liška, Martin ; Matuchová, Klára (referee) ; Pípalová, Renata (advisor)
This thesis examines the language of sport from the point of view of lexis, syntax, and, to a lesser extent, stylistics. In the theoretical part, a brief overview of its most typical features is provided, based on the relevant sources. The empirical section offers statistics and data obtained from the analysis of six selected texts that report on sporting events, specifically on ice hockey and football matches. The main focus is on four areas - sports terminology, informal expressions, stative and dynamic verbs, and finite and non-finite verb forms. In each of them, special attention is devoted to the similarities and differences detected in individual texts, especially as regards the comparison of approaches adopted by the tabloid press on the one hand, and the serious media on the other.
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Sociolinguistic Concept of Political Correctness and lts Impact on Modern Public English
Ženíšek, Filip ; Pípalová, Renata (advisor) ; Matuchová, Klára (referee)
This thesis deals with the sociolinguistic concept of political correctness and scrutinizes the impact it has on modern public English language. It describes the changes proposed by the current trend which are meant to erase any offensive and controversial expressions from both public and priváte speech codes. Brief philosophical, sociological and historical backgrounds of the problém of linguistic discrimination are also provided in order to explain the movement which is aiined at changing the way the people of the European and American civilization express themselves.
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Gender-based linguistic differences in the context of social variables
Županičová, Lenka ; Matuchová, Klára (referee) ; Pípalová, Renata (advisor)
My diploma thesis deals with the issue of genderbased linguistic differences examined in the context of social variables. The aim of this work is to introduce the theoretical background of the study of gender and language, to present major concepts prevailing across the area of the study of gender and language, compare them and discuss and examine genderbased linguistic differences from the perspective of the society and the influence it has on its speakers.
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Pronunciation of Czech Teachers of English: Focus on Wofrd- Stress
Sokolová, Hana ; Matuchová, Klára (referee) ; Červinková Poesová, Kristýna (advisor)
The topic of this thesis is to describe the pronunciation of Czech teachers of English, with focus on word stress and the ensuing vowel reduction. The introduction presents two hypotheses, that teachers with a TEFL university degree and teachers from more prestigious schools have better pronunciation. The theoretical part deals with the theory of word stress and explains its relevance in teaching English. The practical part is an analysis of authentic recordings of Czech teachers of English, focused on correct stress placement and vowel reduction. Finally, the methodological part tries to offer a variety of methods to achieve correct stress placement.
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Comparison of Czech and English Speaker's Use of English Intersentential Connectives in Geographic Articles
Jirsová, Miroslava ; Pípalová, Renata (advisor) ; Matuchová, Klára (referee)
The present thesis is a corpus study comparing English and Czech (non-native) speakers' use of intersentential connectives in English geographic articles. The corpus contains English articles written by British English and Czech speakers, and translations from Czech into English. The thesis examines the frequency, formal diversity, semantic categories, position, punctuation, syntactic functions and formality of the connectives in the corpus. The results confirm the original hypothesis that texts written by Czech speakers are less rich in intersentential connectives, which applies both to their frequency and formal diversity. In the other categories, no significant differences were found. The interpretation of the differences is based on negative transfer, later stage in the order of acquiring language components within second language learning and acquisition, and the specificity of Czech scientific writing.
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Southeast Asian Englishes and their perception
Bukraba, Maria ; Matuchová, Klára (advisor) ; Bojarová, Marie (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to prove that words from Southeast Asian varieties of English which were included in Oxford English Dictionary bear a unique meaning and thus are indispensable. Theoretical part depicts a classification of Englishes by Braj Kachru and later explores historical and socio-political aspects of English in countries where it is spoken by a large part of population such as Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Hong Kong which technically belongs to East Asia, but for the linguistic purposes it is included in the list. The practical part examines lists of words included in Oxford English dictionary from the mentioned varieties of English with the aid of local context such as magazines, blogs, newspapers and other unofficial sources. On the basis of the results of this research, it can be concluded that words from Southeast Asian varieties of English are irreplaceable due to their distinctive meaning.
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