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Animal Idioms in Czech and Chinese phraseology
Zhao, Yue ; Adamovičová, Ana (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
Language is the most important apparatus for human communication. Each language has its own specifics, it is a reflection of a given culture. Language is always changing because people's knowledge and thinking is always evolving. Phrases are typical units of language and studying them will help to understand both languages (here Czech and Chinese) and consequently understand the cultural differences between the two countries (Czech Republic and China). This thesis deals with the most frequent animal names in Czech and Chinese phraseology. The aim of the thesis is to describe not only the structure and types of phrases in both languages, but especially the semantics and symbolism of the most frequently occurring animal names, to compare identical names, to explain any differences in their distribution and to capture their absence in each of the two languages. Key words: animal names, phraseological units, phraseology, Czech, Chinese
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Czech textbooks for the Czech School without Borders London
Bočková, Klára ; Šebesta, Karel (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
The diploma thesis analyses the textbooks of Czech language for 6th and 7th grade of elemantary school, which were created by Czech School Without Borders in London. Due to the breadth of the topic a wide range of sub-topics is presented in the work: the characteristics of education and pupils of Czech school, its connection to Czech educational system (primarily in the context of the directive on approval clause), textbook theory and last, but not least, communicative concept of language education. With the help of pre-estabilished methods (questionnaire data collection, measurement of the didactic equipment of textbooks, assessment of learning tasks and measurement of the variability index, assessment and analysis of visual materiál) the Czech language textbooks are analysed. Based on the analysis of the textbooks and the report to the granting of the approval clause the thesis articulates the proposals for the modifications of the textbooks. The thesis includes four sample chapters.
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The Czech Crossword Dictionaries
Klimecká, Ester ; Škrabal, Michal (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
The aim of this master's thesis is to investigate the concept of crossword dictionaries. The thesis provides a list of Czech crossword dictionaries and delves into their historical background. The theoretical section discusses the structure of these dictionaries and explores their position within the lexicographical typology. The practical portion focuses on analyzing the entries found in selected crossword dictionaries (Křížovkářský slovník by Černovský and Vinduška; Křížovkářům do kapsy by Kramář a Jelínek), comparing them with that of two monolingual dictionaries: the Příruční slovník jazyka českého (Handbook of the Czech Language) and the Akademický slovník současné češtiny (Academic Dictionary of Contemporary Czech). KEYWORDS dictionary, metalexicography, crossword dictionary, crossword, lexicographical typology, list of entries
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The Czech Language of the Weekly Našinec in 1988
Zittová, Klára ; Dittmann, Robert (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
This thesis aims to characterize selected features of the Czech language used in the Czech-American weekly Našinec. The material basis consists of scans of ten issues from 1988. The opening chapters (1) focus on Czech emigration to the USA, specifically on the development of the Texas community and Texas Czech language, and are followed by a description of Czech-American press and its language in the second half of the twentieth century. The next part (2) describes the Našinec and its language in the linguistic research to date and then (3) details are given about the sample chosen for further analysis and criteria of selection of features chosen for the analysis (4). The main part (5-7) of the present BA thesis includes quantitative research into three phenomena which are well documented in the sample and at the same time seem to differ from the situation in the contemporary Czech language. These phenomena are: competition of the prepositions k/ke/ku, the infinitive ending and forms of the third person singular present tense of the verb být "to be". The state of affairs detected in Našinec was compared to the period linguistic manuals, studies and relevant language corpora. Generally the comparison confirmed differences from the situation in the contemporary Czech language and retention or even...
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Idioms associated with the topic of drunkenness
Hrabánková, Iva ; Kováříková, Dominika (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with idioms associated with the topic of drunkenness in Czech corpora (SYN v11 and ORAL v1). The aim of the thesis is to create a list of idioms that appear in those corpora using printed dictionaries and other sources, sort them into categories, then analyze frequencies of those idioms. Additionally, the aim of the thesis is to briefly introduce the variability of similes associated with the topic of drunkenness, specifically the variability of the relator in those similes. The results of the frequency analysis show a low frequency of this type of idioms in the corpora, especially in the ORAL v1 corpus. The results of the variability analysis show differences in variability of different similes associated with the topic of drunkenness.
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Neosemantisms in the portal Czech 2.0 and their use in contemporary comunication
Trojanová, Markéta ; Bozděchová, Ivana (advisor) ; Martínek, František (referee)
The bachelor thesis is focused on the excerpt, description and analysis of neosemantisms in the portal Czech 2.0. Firstly, the theoretical part focuses on the interpretation of key concepts, summary of existing knowledge and identification of theoretical background. A sample of expressions is then selected using several criteria and analyzed in the practical part. The second part is devoted to one-word expressions, but one of the chapters also deals with collocations. The aim of the thesis is to classify the extracted neosemantisms according to the individual word types, as well as according to the number of new meanings, methods of neosemantization and types of figurative (transferred) meaning, stylistic shifts, expressiveness/neutrality of nominalization, and communication area of use. The functionality of expressions is assessed in the texts of the web corpora ONLINE2_ARCHIVE, ONLINE2_NOW of the Czech National Corpus and also with the help of a quantitative survey. The thesis includes a closer introduction to the form of the headword in the portal, a small dictionary and a spreadsheet from Microsoft Excel that characterizes the neosemantisms in more detail. Finally, the thesis presents difficulties with analysis and comparison to neosemantisms in dictionaries of neologisms.
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To teach Czech in Banat. Two hundred years of tradition, heritage and presence
Karešová, Pavla ; Šebesta, Karel (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
The thesis presents a case study that focuses on the state of Czech language teaching in the Czech villages of Gârnic and Sfânta Elena in Banat. The theoretical part dives into the history of the Czech minority in Banat and its linguistic characteristics, focusing on the two selected villages. Furthermore, this part unravels minority issues in the area and the specifics of their education, or forms of bilingual education, both from the perspective of the host and the mother country. It also includes a chapter concerning the language education history of the Czech minority in Banat. Additionally, it describes the current legislative structure of language minority education in Romania and the Czech Republic's concern for the education of compatriot communities worldwide. The case study focuses on Czech language schooling in Banat in the villages of Gârnic and Sfânta Elena as of the school year 2021/2022. Based on curriculum documents, didactic materials, semi-structured interviews with people in the school environment (teachers, pupils and their parents), and direct observation, the thesis describes and analyses the state of Czech language education in Banat. Finally, the thesis evaluates some weaknesses in the used didactic materials and assesses the performance of the teacher sent from the Czech...
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Domesticated animals in Czech similes
Chmelíková, Anna ; Kováříková, Dominika (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
(in English): The subject of this bachelor thesis is Czech similes, which contain lexems identifying domestic animals and whose comparator is a conjuction such as. The aim of the work is to search for a list of similes and to describe the frequency features of the searched for idioms, as well as their variantity. The chosen method is the analysis of potential similes in the corpus SYN version 9, which is labelled by the frazeologically tool called FRANTA. The acquired similes of the most-frequented lemma dog are compared with data from dictionaries (Dictionary of Czech Phraseology and Idiomatics 1: Comparisons, Animal Names in Czech Phraseology and Idiomatics: Thematic phraseology dictionary I) and with spoken corpus (ORAL version 1, Ortofon version 2). The results of the analysis show a low incidence of similes in the corpus, and the percentage of comparisons is in the order of units. The comparison results did not reveal emerging similes.
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Neologisms in Czech arising during the coronavirus epidemic 2020-2021
Akayev, Askar ; Škodová, Svatava (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
The undergraduate research considers neologisms taken from the Internet dictionary Čeština 2.0 which is available online. The topic of neologisms has been and will be relevant as development of technology, science, society, culture and in connection with the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in our case. In two years the Czech lexicon has been replenished with new lexemes related to the coronavirus and here we can note the creative approach to their formation. The purpose of this research is to confirm the independence of the korona lexeme and to find the most commonly used word-formation technique in the classification of lexemes. We also would like to show that the lexical part (morpheme) koro can potentially behave as a prefixoid. The theoretical part of the undergraduate research includes the definition of lexical terms used in this study, the establishment of their criteria and the definition of stylistic factors. The practical part examines the evolution of the meaning of the lexeme coronavirus and the word-formation classification of lexemes describing the coronavirus epidemic. We will return to this study of neologisms in the future because in a few years this research will allow us to conclude which of the observed lexemes survived and became neologisms and which on the contrary were...
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The language of hip hop
Malá, Michaela ; Šebesta, Karel (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
This thesis is focused on hip hop language in terms of young people diction and their manners of speech. lťs also focused on subcultures relating to youth communities. Both the term adolescence and the characteristics of somatic or mental alternations going with individual's growing up period (and actually leading individuals to specific needs of founding or integrating to various subcultures) are going to be made c1ear in the opening part. The following part deals with young people diction and its specifics. The next part contains the historie and contemporary description of the hip hop subculture. The rest of the thesis is dealing with verbal analysis of particular hip hop songs as well as with album reviews and finally with discussion forums referring to this specific genre/subculture on the internet. The goal of my thesis is to describe and illustrate the specific language features of all those text types.
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