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Speakers' understanding of the meaning of names of body parts in Czech and Japanese idioms
Velká, Tereza ; Kanasugi, Petra (advisor) ; Tirala, Martin (referee)
The aim of this thesis is comparison of speakers' understanding of meaning of names of body parts head, eye, ear, nose, mouth and heart in Czech and Japanese language. To achieve this goal a list of idioms consisting of mentioned body parts in both languages is created. Speakers sort the idioms into arbitrary categories based on their understaing of meaning of name of body part. Resulting data is processed by multidimensional scaling and evaluated afterwards. The first bigger chapter is dedicated to introduction of idiomatics and phraseology in Europe and Japan in order to compare understanding of idioms and their classification. The second bigger chapter introduces a base for approaches to idioms, following by focus on somatic idioms. Two different approaches are introduced. The method of introspection is represented by a theory of coneptual profiles by I. Vaňková and by an idealized cognitive model of act by Arizono T. The corpus approach is represented by F. Čermák, Hashimoto Ch. et al. and by Lin W. The introduction of practical part follows. The first part is dedicated to the method of multidimensional scaling. After that the survey realization and its evaluation is described. The overall evaluation of results in terms of the aim of this thesis is placed in conclusion. Keywords: Japanese...
Fear in the Japanese Literary Tradition: from Kaidan to Horror
Velká, Tereza ; Weber, Michael (advisor) ; Tirala, Martin (referee)
The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to answer the question whether the modern Japanese horror is a continuation of the tradition of scary stories called kaidan, or it is a genre adopted from the West. In the theoretical part the definition of horror and characteristics of Japanese horror genre are discussed. Further, it is focused on the definition of kaidan and its fear-inducing elements. The elements and themes common for both kaidan and modern Japanese horror are summarized in the conclusion of the theoretical part. In the practical part actual kaidan and modern Japanese horror stories are used to prove whether the themes being discovered in kaidan stories can be found in contemporary horror literature. At the same time, the shift of modern Japanese horror from kaidan is analyzed. The question put at the beginning is answered in the conclusion of the thesis. Keywords: Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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