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Aspects of Politeness in a Classroom of English as a Second Language
Šubertová, Aneta ; Pípalová, Renata (advisor) ; Matuchová, Klára (referee)
This thesis deals with politeness and its realization in a classroom discourse. The theoretical part describes the most influential politeness theories and also the findings on the topic of teaching pragmatics and linguistic politeness. The research in the thesis focuses on analysis of teachers' verbal realizations of politeness as found in the recordings of four English lessons. The research was designed to verify the two hypotheses: (1) teachers are basically polite in a classroom of English as a second language and (2) politeness strategies of Czech teachers of English differ from those of native speaking teachers. The analytical part adopts the viewpoint of Brown and Levinson's positive and negative politeness. The last part of the thesis aims at summarizing the implications that this thesis, its theoretical summary and its research, have for teaching English as a second language.
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Translation and Stylistic Analysis of One Chapter of Casualties of Peace by Edna O'Brien
Rusňáková, Adéla ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Pípalová, Renata (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on difficulties encountered when translating English fiction into Czech. It is divided into two sections. The practical part provides the translation of one chapter of the novel Casualties of Peace written by an Irish author Edna O'Brien in 1966. The theoretical part delivers the stylistic analysis including choice of register, morphological, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic aspects. Each of them is illustrated with the commented examples based on theoretical background from works by Jiří Levý, Dagmar Knittlová and Olga Krijtová.
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Translation and analysis of Jonathan Franzen's Freedom
Halfarová, Anna ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Pípalová, Renata (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on the problems which may occur, while translating from English into Czech, using as a foundational material a novel Freedom by American author Jonathan Franzen. The thesis is divided into two sections. For the purpose of the first, practical part, I have chosen two different extracts of the novel, one is taken from the middle of the book, the second one is the last part of the novel Freedom. The second section consists of my analysis, special attention is paid to the problems I had to solve during my translation. I comment on the choices I have made, usually also quoting from the books that deal with translation theories, I found especially helpful those written by Jiří Levý, Dagmar Knittlová and Zlata Kufnerová.
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TV Sitcom Friends: Analysis of character humor strategies based on the violation of Grice's Conversational maxims
Šmilauerová, Anna ; Pípalová, Renata (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
Anna Šmilauerová: TV Sitcom Friends: Analysis of character humor strategies based on the violation of Grice's Conversational maxims Abstract The purpose of this diploma thesis is the analysis of the humor strategies employed by the characters of Phoebe and Chandler in the TV Sitcom Friends. The discovered prevailing strategies were then compared with the personalities of the two characters. The data analyzed were the written script of five exemplary episodes from the Season 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9, in which the utterances eliciting laughter from the audience were thoroughly analyzed from the point of Grice's Cooperative Principle: only those utterances were considered in which the characters violated one or more of the conversational maxims (quality, quantity, relation and manner). Phoebe was found to violate most often the maxim of relation, thus it is her being non-factual and non-conventional that constitutes her most entertaining quality. As she develops and grows more mature as a character, the frequency counts of this humor strategy evince a descending tendency. Chandler, on the other hand, is mostly being ironic, violating the maxim of quality. His character also gradually changes but his sense of humor remains the same - ironic throughout the show, as follows from the instances of almost fixed frequency....
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English back-formation in the 20th and the early 21st century
Stašková, Naděžda ; Klégr, Aleš (advisor) ; Kavka, Tomáš (referee) ; Pípalová, Renata (referee)
(Naděžda Stašková) The subject of the present study is a description and analysis of English back- formation in the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. The work mainly focuses on the last part of the given period and aims at highlighting the most typical features of this morphological process today, resulting from its development over the whole century. Based on the analysis of the contemporary situation and on the results of the research of neologisms involved in the process of back-formation, prevailing tendencies for the nearest future have been drawn and possible subjects for further research have been suggested. Investigation of an overall sample of 768 back-formed units has resulted in the following conclusions: Productivity of back-formation remains on the same level as it was in the first half of the 20th century. The most productive process is formation of verbs from action nouns, which has grown significantly. Back-formation of verbs from agent nouns has decreased, formation of verbs from adjectives almost disappeared. Adjectives can be seen as a minor source of back- formed nouns, probably decreasing in productivity. There is a growth in involvement of compounds in this process. The most frequent subtracted suffixes are -ing, -ion/-ation and -er, all of them being involved in the...
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English back-formation in the 20th and the early 21st century
Stašková, Naděžda ; Klégr, Aleš (advisor) ; Kavka, Tomáš (referee) ; Pípalová, Renata (referee)
(Naděžda Stašková) The subject of the present study is a description and analysis of English back- formation in the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. The work mainly focuses on the last part of the given period and aims at highlighting the most typical features of this morphological process today, resulting from its development over the whole century. Based on the analysis of the contemporary situation and on the results of the research of neologisms involved in the process of back-formation, prevailing tendencies for the nearest future have been drawn and possible subjects for further research have been suggested. Investigation of an overall sample of 768 back-formed units has resulted in the following conclusions: Productivity of back-formation remains on the same level as it was in the first half of the 20th century. The most productive process is formation of verbs from action nouns, which has grown significantly. Back-formation of verbs from agent nouns has decreased, formation of verbs from adjectives almost disappeared. Adjectives can be seen as a minor source of back- formed nouns, probably decreasing in productivity. There is a growth in involvement of compounds in this process. The most frequent subtracted suffixes are -ing, -ion/-ation and -er, all of them being involved in the...
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Initiating Acts in Classroom Discourse
Dudková, Veronika ; Pípalová, Renata (advisor) ; Matuchová, Klára (referee)
This thesis is a contribution to the linguistic and methodological analysis of classroom discourse. The linguistic analyses and interpretations, based on the classification of initiating acts suggested by A. B. M. Tsui, examine the kind, sequence, and frequency of initiating acts. The methodological ones search for any correlations between teachers' initiations on the one hand and grouping of the students, basic language skills, and instructional sequences on the other hand. Considering these criteria, four lessons taught by four different teachers are analysed in terms of the similarities and differences between their initiations, and furthermore, typical initiations in lower and higher secondary school lessons in general are looked for. Finally, our findings are summed up, classroom-specific features outlined and other options for further research, including relevant factors which need to be taken into consideration, are suggested.
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Verbonominal predications in Englisch and their translation into Czech
Juračková, Kateřina ; Pípalová, Renata (advisor) ; Jančovičová, Ivana (referee)
This work deals with verbonominal predications. It compares the frameworks of the phenomenon in English and in Czech. Furthermore, it examines the types and distribution of Czech counterparts to English verbonominal predications. The comparative analyses are based on the excerpts from authentic literary texts of both English and Czech origins and their respective translations. The results confirmed the wider usage of verbonominal predications in English and revealed the most frequent types of Czech counterparts. Moreover, they pointed to the interference of English verbonominal predications in Czech structures. The distinct distribution of verbonominal predications in English and in Czech supports the English nominal tendencies against the more verbal character of Czech.
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