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A Discourse Analysis of the Relations between Russia and the United States of America
Pitoňáková, Andrea ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Ditrych, Ondřej (referee)
The diploma thesis analyses U.S.-Russian bilateral relationship based on the interpretation of discourses, interviews and speeches of the American and Russian presidents since September 2001 till December 2013. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, and more specifically Membership Categorization Analysis, as a theoretical and methodological basis of the analysis, the thesis categorizes specific periods of the U.S.-Russian bilateral relationship into three categories - positive, neutral and negative. Each category is defined by two basic concepts of the Membership Categorization Analysis - by the collections of positive, neutral and negative categories, which were addressed by the presidents to their counterparts, and by the category-tied predicates related to the particular categories. The final categorization of the U.S.-Russian relations is contrasted with conventional political affairs aiming to highlight the parallels between the categorization changes based on the discourses and the changes in the conventional political context. The diploma thesis offers an alternative view on the U.S.-Russian relations.
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A Discourse Analysis of the Relations between Russia and the United States of America
Pitoňáková, Andrea ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Ditrych, Ondřej (referee)
The diploma thesis analyses U.S.-Russian bilateral relationship based on the interpretation of discourses, interviews and speeches of the American and Russian presidents since September 2001 till December 2013. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, and more specifically Membership Categorization Analysis, as a theoretical and methodological basis of the analysis, the thesis categorizes specific periods of the U.S.-Russian bilateral relationship into three categories - positive, neutral and negative. Each category is defined by two basic concepts of the Membership Categorization Analysis - by the collections of positive, neutral and negative categories, which were addressed by the presidents to their counterparts, and by the category-tied predicates related to the particular categories. The final categorization of the U.S.-Russian relations is contrasted with conventional political affairs aiming to highlight the parallels between the categorization changes based on the discourses and the changes in the conventional political context. The diploma thesis offers an alternative view on the U.S.-Russian relations.
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Origins and establishing of multi-party system in Spain after the fall of Francisco Franco's dictatorship (1975 - 1982)
Pitoňáková, Andrea ; Krausz Hladká, Malvína (advisor) ; Šušlíková, Lada (referee)
The bachelor thesis considers the Spanish transition to democracy, which started after the death of General Francisco Franco in 1975. In the introduction, the thesis provides the theoretical classification of the Spanish transition taking into consideration theories of several authors. Consequently it follows the historic flow of the events, while focusing on the origins and establishing of the pluralistic party system. In the times of the dictatorship, existence of no parties was officially permitted, expect for the National Movement. After the fall of the authoritative regime, Carlos Arias Navarro is swapped by Adolfo Suárez on the post of the prime minister. He establishes the basic rules for the Spanish democratization allowing new political parties to arise again. Moreover, Juan Carlos becomes the Spanish king and he expresses full support for the transition to democracy. An uncountable number of parties participate in the first democratic elections in 1977, but only some of them remain in the system and are able to contribute to the successful transition. The main political party in this period is Union of the Democratic Centre UCD that is led by Adolfo Suárez. The party system starts to change after the elections of 1979 and the next elections in 1982 are not won by the UCD, but by the...
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