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Linguistic Analysis of Czech and English Sport Reposts
Seethaler, Martin ; Janovec, Ladislav (advisor) ; Holanová, Radka (referee)
The subject matter of the thesis is the journalistic genre of sport report and its goal is to compare the Czech reports with the English ones. The sport reports were studied from the viewpoint of the main linguistic disciplines: morphology, lexicology and syntax. At all these levels of the linguistic analysis the examples from some authentic texts were used to demonstrate the differences in many aspects of both languages (e.g. distribution of parts of speech; the use of non-finite verb forms; sport terminology; applied word formation processes; some means of stylistic diversity, complexity of sentence structure, specific syntactic structures) The pieces of knowledge achieved during the analysis were used to provide some general stylistic characterization of the examined genre. The results of the comprehensive analysis confirm both the concise nature of sport reports and some general differences between Czech and English as reflected in the reports. On the basis of the examined linguistic material the English sport reports can be defined by more extensive sport terminology, more complex sentence structure and broader repertoire of the means of stylistic condensation (shortening). The style of English sport reports is characteristic of its nominal nature using a lot of substantives, adjectives and pronouns....

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