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Representations of Serbs and Albanians in the Czech press during the process of declaring independance of Kosovo
Procházka, Tomáš ; Kraus, Jiří (advisor) ; Cihlářová, Gabriela (referee)
Diploma thesis "Život a dílo Václava Chába" deals with an image of Václav Cháb (1895 - 1983), czech publicist, writer and translator. Diploma thesis describes important moments of Cháb's life in chronological sequence. First part of the thesis analysis Cháb's growing up and attend to his participation at czechoslovak foreign legion in Russia during First world war. After his return back to the country, he started to work as a journalist at weekly paper Legionářský směr and then at daily paper Národní osvobození. During the Second world war he was shortly active in paper Naše zprávy and then was obliged to stay in illegality. In the very first beginning of the Prague revolution in May 1945, he was active in re-issuing of Národní osvobození. The biggest attention is paid to his journalist proffesion at Národní osvobození. Early in 1950's was Cháb employed in Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, where he was active even in retiring age. Diploma thesis also paid appropriate attention to many of Cháb's prosaic publications, in which he mostly describes historical subjects. He is also known for publications with anti-nazi themes. His translation activities are not omitted from this thesis. Diploma thesis also documents Cháb's relationship with dr. Lev Sychrava and aim to deals with his political opinions.
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Contemporary Czech polemic discourse on dontroversy over Milan Kundera
Orel, Ivan ; Kraus, Jiří (advisor) ; Lütke Notarp, Ulrike (referee)
My thesis "Contemporary Czech Polemic Discourse Shown on Controversy over Milan Kundera" deals with media debate triggered by an article published in the Respekt magazine. The article claimed that Milan Kundera reported an unknown person dwelling at a student dormitory to the police. The person was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment as a Western intelligence agent. He spent 14 years in prison. The thesis focuses on texts that were published in Czech media from 13 October 2008 to 31 October 2008. Source texts were categorized into three corpuses. Corpus A includes texts that bring information on Milan Kundera - these texts are not explicitly oriented at supporting argumentation either in favour of or against Kundera. Corpus B contains texts defending Kundera. And corpus C analyzes texts that respond critically to corpus B texts. Based on results of such analyses, discourse participants were categorized and their types were defined, assessing phenomena appearing during the discourse and properties of selected texts of the discourse contained in corpuses A, B and C that were subject to qualitative assessment.
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Principles of popularization and mediacoverage of scientific knowledge on the Czech and American news servers
Samšuková, Eva ; Šoltys, Otakar (advisor) ; Kraus, Jiří (referee)
Rigorous thesis "Principles of popularization of scientific knowledge on the Czech and American news servers" evaluates and compares news published during three month period in scientific sections of news servers in the Czech Republic and the United States of America. The thesis follows room provided for scientific topics, the audiovisual features and theme agenda on NYTimes.com, USAToday.com, iDnes.cz and Novinky.cz. The results are accomplished through the quantitative content analysis which is supplemented by the qualitative semiotic analysis. The semiotic analysis determins compositional and narrative structures and the language features in the articles. It is very important to be concerned about the scientific journalism, as science is important in people's lives and, furthermore, it is the public who helps to support scientific efforts financially. Thus, scientists should be concerned about and aware of science communication in media.
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TV-debate - argumentation and persuasion: Václav Moravec questioning's case study
Jelínková, Barbora ; Kraus, Jiří (advisor) ; Šoltys, Otakar (referee)
The diploma thesis presents own research method for examination of speech formations. It focuses on examination of televised political debates. The method applied here may be characterized as an organized hermeneutic analysis of political discourse. Through the application of an analytical - philosophical approach (e.g. application of the theory of maxima, illocutionary acts evaluation, and analysis of arguments and verification of their truthfulness), the method allows us to establish objective facts of the debate as well as some personal features of debate participants. To examine texts, the theoretical knowledge of distinguished authors (J. J. Austin, K. Bayer, T. A. van Dijk, N. Fairclough, H. P. Grice, J. Habermas, J. Kraus, G. N. Leeche, J. R. Searl, and others) have been made use of. In addition to the literary survey, the thesis also includes the argumentation in respect of selection of the method, selection of talk shows, transcript of debates from TV records, transformation of the text into an analysable form, and research methodology. Accordingly, a specific communication model of programme is drawn up, the talk show discourse is analysed as a whole, and the styles and argumentation of selected participants are examined and analysed, which is followed by a comprehensive assessment of the...
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Sign systems of visual forms of mediated contents
Elfmarková, Šárka ; Šoltys, Otakar (advisor) ; Kraus, Jiří (referee)
As there is no world outside media, we have no choice to avoid receiving, consuming and interpreting contents which are media giving us. This inescapable situation leads us to study media and its new trends. The special field of current interest in media communication is an interest on "the new media". The interdisciplinary point of view on media enables to study very complex problems of topical cultural change from the verbal to the visual communication. The language as a dynamic code is under still current evolution and is the result of negotiation of its users. It is constructed from the signs which play important role in constitution of the meaning. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Science and the media
Kasík, Pavel ; Jirák, Jan (advisor) ; Kraus, Jiří (referee)
Science as the enterprise engaged in the knowledge-acquiring of reality has gone through a long and complex historical development. As new technologies came to rise, too did the social importance of science in various areas; it often serves as the explanatory frameworkofunderstanding the reality itself. This master's thesis explores the often complicated relationship between scientific discourse and the mass media. This means examining various historical connections and similarities, such as the common relation to the industrial revolution, and also demonstrating important disparities between science and media in relation to knowledge management, perception of authority figures and methods of reality representations. Firstly, this thesis investigates the possibility of employing various methods of media and communication studies to betterunderstand the representation of science in the media (including news values, routines, framing, agenda settingetc.) and summarizes the state of science communicationin general as well as in the Czech Republic. In the second part, the representation of science is researched through quantitative analysis of selected Czech mass media (print: MF DNES and Právo, on-line: iDNES.cz and Novinky.cz) with emphasis on the framing, the work with sources, framing and referring...
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Rhetoric of users selected asynchronic discussions on the Internet.
Klika, Jan ; Kraus, Jiří (advisor) ; Švelch, Jaroslav (referee)
Master thesis called "Users rhetoric of selected asynchronous discussions on the Internet" studies culture of language and rhetorical cultivation in the selected discussion pieces from the three news servers, namely Aktuálně.cz., iDnes.cz and Neviditelný pes. Under many of these virtual newspaper articles there are discussions that are meant to develop read ideas and opinions. This discussion space is accessible for practically everyone who has an access to the Internet, which is one of the characteristics and advantages of network media over traditional ones. However limitations of traditional media anticipated the use of appropriate and cultivated language. Network media have different characteristics and asynchronous discussion make other demands on language in them. Natural language is the basic communication medium, which is the primary content of most mass media. In the practical part there is an examination of users speech behavior in these discussions. The rhetorical analysis is used there, which allows a holistic view of speech including its argumentative construction. The aim is to find out what this type of online dialogues is characteristic from the point of view of rhetoric.
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Language of the Internet News versus Journalistic Language in the print media: Pragmalinguistic Analysis
Machová, Barbora ; Klabíková Rábová, Tereza (advisor) ; Kraus, Jiří (referee)
Diploma thesis "Language of the Internet News versus Journalistic Language in the print media: Pragmalinguistic Analysis", deals with the phenomenon of convergence of the Internet news language and language of the journalistic texts in print media. Our research verifies hypothesis that "language of the Internet news has much in common with the language of the journalistic texts in print media." About thirty-eight journalistic texts and internet news from MF DNES and Lidové noviny newspapers and www.idnes.cz and www.lidovky.cz websites were analyzed. Also selected concepts of pragmalinguistic and linguistic text analysis were chosen to identify these in common phenomena and to draw conclusions on the convergence of the internet news language and language of the journalistic news in print media. Diploma thesis examines only those linguistic phenomena that appear both in the Internet news and print journalistic texts.
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Politeness in television political discussion
Dufek, Ondřej ; Kraus, Jiří (advisor) ; Moravec, Václav (referee)
Diploma thesis Politeness in Television Political Discussion deals with specific nature of politeness and impoliteness use in mediated political discourse, illustrating it with the Czech Television programme Questions of Václav Moravec. In the first part it defines television political debate as a genre. Then it summarizes development of politeness theories both in world and Czech pragmatic and pragmalinguistic tradition. After synthetising the main conceptions it comes out with its own version of theory of politeness and impoliteness, basing it on Cooperation Principle and politeness theory with utilization of face concept. Then it applies theoretical principles in practical debate analysis and pays attention to the most distinct agents of politeness and impoliteness expression. In conclusion it identifies characteristic regularities of politeness and impoliteness usage in television political discussion and adverts to relevant factors that influence the shape of communication. The diploma thesis helps to map this little explored field, in which conflict interferes with cooperation as two antagonistic forces, and explains their interaction by the usage of politeness and impoliteness.
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