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Media and Stylistic Analysis of Texts of Chosen Public Person
Kolouchová, Julie ; Holanová, Radka (advisor) ; Adam, Robert (referee)
The diploma thesis concerns the discourse of a selected public official (Tomio Okamura) in the media. The thesis contains three parts. The first of them discusses the media in general and also their connection to politics. The second part deals with the discourse style in the media communication sphere and it includes specific language elements that are typical for discourse in this area. The last, third part contains the analysis of three discourse types: radio interview, TV interview and TV debate. In each of these three groups, 4 speeches are analyzed. At the end, the thesis comes to a synthesis of characteristic elements and assessment of how these elements affect the overall style of Tomio Okamura's discourse.
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Manifestation of Deflectivization in Contemporary Czech - The Tendency Not to Inflect Some First Names in Connection With Surnames
Kripnerová, Nella ; Sojka, Pavel (advisor) ; Adam, Robert (referee)
This thesis deals with the issue of deflectivization in contemporary Czech, specifically the tendency not to inflect some first names in connection with surnames. The theoretical part focuses on the dynamics of the development of contemporary Czech, explains the concepts of norm and codification, describes variant forms in the language and clarifies the causes of language changes. He then defines a relatively new tendency - deflectivization and gives some specific examples of it. In connection with the non-declension of some names, it clarifies how such names should be inflected. The aim of the practical part is to compare the results of the questionnaire survey, which aims to find out to what extent deflectivization tendencies manifest themselves in the Czech population, with the results reported in the CNK and to evaluate whether or not there is a tendency to inflect these names prevailing. KEYWORDS Development tendencies of contemporary language, variation, language norm, codification, deflectivization, declension, first name, surname
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Competition Between Analytic Future Forms and Future Forms Created by Prefix
Pröschl, Vojtěch ; Adam, Robert (advisor) ; Sojka, Pavel (referee)
This thesis examines two types of forms of imperfect verbs which are used in the czech language to express the future. It is an analytical form and form with a formative prefix. The thesis first introduces the reader to the basic issues of the topic and then also to the current findings in this area. In the next part is examined the occurrence of the mentioned forms in the vocabulary of the czech language. The aim of this thesis is to fill the gaps in the previous mentions of the issue with the help of aformentioned research.
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Comparison of the most frequent lemmas in written and spoken Czech
Špetová, Leona ; Kováříková, Dominika (advisor) ; Adam, Robert (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the 20 most frequent lemmas in the SYN2020 corpus of written Czech and the ORAL corpus of informal spoken Czech. The aim of this thesis is to find out what functions and meanings studied lemmas have and, above all, to investigate whether these meanings and functions differ in spoken and written communication. The data for the research were extracted from the SYN2020 corpus of written Czech and the ORAL corpus of informal spoken Czech. A semantic analysis of the lemmas is based on a random sample from both corpora. The results of the comparison of the 20 most frequent lemmas in the written and spoken corpora show that the most frequent lemmas in both corpora are expressions with a grammatical function, which are involved in the construction and organization of the text. These lemmas often have multiple meanings. The analysis shows that the most frequent expressions in the SYN2020 corpus are prepositions and conjunctions and in the ORAL corpus pronouns and deictic expressions. The most frequent expressions in the ORAL corpus often also have a pragmatic function. These expressions can be described as discourse markers. By comparing the most frequent lemmas we can observe different characteristics of written and spoken communication.
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Antonymy in adjectives
Chomyková, Gabriela ; Kováříková, Dominika (advisor) ; Adam, Robert (referee)
The aim of the diploma thesis is to describe how selected frequent adjective negative antonyms are used. The thesis analyses adjectival antonyms that express two main negative meanings, namely the meaning of simple denial of the base word content of (e.g. invalid) and the meaning of contrasting opposite to the base word content (e.g. unfortunate). These meanings are observed with regard to the logical concepts of contradiction and contrariety, and to the oppositeness of meanings and distinction between subjective and objective concepts. The data source is SYN2020 corpus, in which negative antonyms meeting the criteria of high frequency and low polysemy were searched. Their meaning was determined according to collocations and compared with the characteristics of affirmative variants. Based on the research, it can be stated that there is a wide variability in the use of these antonyms. At the same time, it was found that the meaning of the simple denial is often determined by the terminological nature of an expression. Key words: antonymy, antonymous adjectives, lexical negative, contradiction, contrariety
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Language comprehension of mathematical word problems
Chmelařová, Nikola ; Šormová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Adam, Robert (referee)
In order to solve mathematical word problem, student have to understand it correctly first. In this work, we will try to find particular problematic parts in terms of language comprehension in word problems. The theoretical part of the theses shows connection between mathematical and reading literacy, defines the term word problem and offers various types of word problems, describes individual parts of solving word problems and points out possible problems associated with solving word problems. Furthermore, it is devoted to language characteristics of word problems on various levels, such as textual and contextual, syntactic, lexical and morphological, and points out potentially problematic language phenomena that could occur in a text of a word problem. In the practical part we analyzed the language of selected word problems from entrance exams for eight-year and four-year high schools and graduation written tests and subsequently we tested these word problems on students of elementary school and high school. The analysis of the word problems and the tests combined with interviews helped us detect problematics parts in terms of language comprehension. We found as problematic the length of the text combined with complicated text division and long sentences, the length of sentences combined with...
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The editoral changes in selected fairy tales of Beneš Method Kulda
Mitrengová, Barbara ; Adam, Robert (advisor) ; Martínek, František (referee)
The Editorial Changes in Selected Fairytales by Beneš Method Kulda Radhošti in Radhošť Čertův mlýn The Devil's Mill Kulda's original collection named Moravské národní pohádky, pověsti, obyčeje a pověry bachelor's thesis aims to comment on language changes in detail on the basis of relevant Pravidla českého pravopisu Sirotek v Radhošti, František Kárník made such radical changes in his František Bačkovský in his edition from 1892. The 1963 edition by Oldřich Sirová
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Morphological and syntactic characteristics of expression sto (hundred), tisíc (thousand), milion (milion) and miliarda (bilion)
Nováková, Anna Josefína ; Adam, Robert (advisor) ; Šimík, Radek (referee)
The presented thesis aims to provide an analysis of morphological and syntactical characteristics of expressions sto "a hundred", tisíc "a thousand", milion "a million" and miliarda "a billion". The first part deals with the description and characteristics of numerals in specialized literature, with focus on the explored expressions, and it then proceeds to define the research questions (e. g. to what extent are the forms frozen; forms of the noun denoting the counted object (JPP) etc.), which are then explored in the practical part, using corpus analysis. The data used in the analysis are taken from the SYN v8, ORAL v1 and ORTOFON v2 corpus. The analysed sample contains 1 000 of the sto lemmas and the same number of the tisíc lemmas. For the expressions milion and miliarda, the analysed sample was half as large. The analysis showed that the range of numeral and substantive characteristics of the expressions varies: the expression sto "a hundred", has the most prominent numeral characteristics: a high degree of constancy of form (e.g., do sta korun "within one hundred crowns", do sto čtyřiceti mil "within one hundred and forty miles", na dvě stě kilometrech "at two hundred kilometres"), a predominant adjectival congruence of numeral (e.g., bylo tam osm set lidí "there were eight hundred people")...
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Analysis of the linguistic landscape in the town centre of Hrádek nad Nisou
Frýdl, Hynek ; Adam, Robert (advisor) ; Mareš, Petr (referee)
The theoretical part of this thesis is focused on basic concepts and terminology, which are useful for describing the linguistic landscape. There are mentioned some divisions of texts (signs) in linguistic landscape (top-down × bottom-up, intentional × unintentional, permanent × event- related, translated × untranslated, division according to function of the text in the public space, ...) and some problems, in which could these divisions potentially result in. There is concretized, which divisions are used in the research, and which are not, and briefly discussed the issue of a visual pollution. The summarization of current interest in the linguistic landscape of the Czech Republic is also presented in this part. The last section of the theoretical part gives an overview of the history of the researched location (Hradek nad Nisou). Especially, it focuses on national structure of local population and the historical circumstances that have been influencing this structure in the 20th and the 21st century. The research part starts with a methodology of the data collection and the analysis and is followed by the research itself which is focused on languages in public space, the multilingualism and translations in connection with the structure of population of Hradek nad Nisou and its surrounding regions...
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Czechs' Attitude Towards the Gender Inflection of Female Surnames
Amrichová, Katalin ; Sojka, Pavel (advisor) ; Adam, Robert (referee)
The goal of this thesis is to analyse the attitude of Czechs towards gender inflection of female surnames. The contents of the theoretical part are history of the origins of surnames, views on inflection in the past and also opinions of contemporary experts regarding this subject. It analyses arguments both in favour of and opposing gender inflection. It covers changes in legislation which currently deal with this issue, their development in the past and comparison with legislations of other European countries. Included in the theoretical part are also the rules that apply to gender inflection of surnames. The empirical part is based on research, which was concluded using an electronic questionnaire. Its goal was to find out what are the respondent's preferences regarding gender inflected female surnames and gender neutral female surnames, as well as how tolerant they are towards the surname forms they don't prefer. This research applied to both Czech female surnames and foreign ones. Through the questionnaire it turned out that the respondents are relatively tolerant to gender neutral female surnames, while in their preferences they are quite conservative. The vast majority prefers the use of a gender inflected surname, after marriage they favour women using the husband's gender inflected surname....
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