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Prestige of the teaching profession
Legezová, Erika ; Bendl, Stanislav (advisor) ; Syřiště, Ivo (referee)
1 Abstrakt Bachelor thesis is focused on the prestige of the teaching profession. The theoretical part is devoted to the specification of the basic conscepts like prestige, social status and teacher. In the next part I characterize the teaching profession as a full-fledged profession which is focused on profession identity of teachers, demands on teachers, the most common problems which the teachers in their jobs face and the responsibilities of teachers. In the next part I descibe particular elements, which shape and influence the prestige of the theaching profession. The practical part of the thesis is based on a questionnaire survey, which was given to the students and teachers of the elementary school Most, Václava Talicha 1855 and on the leading of structured interviews that were made with teachers who work at this school. The aim of this research is to find out how students and teachers of the selected school perceive the prestige of teaching profession. Next goal is to infer and substantiate the level of prestige of the teaching profession, which students and teachers attribute to the teaching proffesion at this elementary school. Keywords prestige, profession, teacher, social status, feminization, elemantary school, authority, social evaluation, professional self confidence
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Gender inflection in occupational titles and its sociolinguistic aspects
Hložková, Darina ; Jančík, Jiří (advisor) ; Listíková, Renáta (referee)
Title of the thesis : Gender inflection in occupational titles and its sociolinguistic aspects Keywords : feminism, feminization, profession, titles, ranks, roles, sociolinguistics Gender inflection in occupational titles and its socio-linguistic aspects focuses on interdisciplinary issues, this topic being a combination of linguistics and various other humanity fields, e.g. sociology, politology, history and anthology. The primary aim has been to find an explanation for differences found with certain forms of inflected nouns which took various shapes throughout different periods of time. The thesis is split into 4 thematically-divided chapters. The intorduction aims to establish hypotheses while the first chapter centers on the research methodology I have employed. The second chapter summarizes historical, political and sociological aspects and presents results from existing research efforts focusing on feminization of occupational titles. The third chapter is the presentation of the handbook of inflection. The fourth chapter describes the development of selected professions/occupations and their often varying explanation in specialized dictionaries from etymological point of view. In the last chapter I have summarized my research results and the final evaluation of the existing hypotheses. The...
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Feminization of French profession words - sociolinguistic aspects
Zikmundová, Kateřina ; Štichauer, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Nádvorníková, Olga (referee)
(in English): Feminization of nouns desribing professions and titles became a much debated question after feministic mouvement had started to talk about language androcentrism in public in the seventies. The objective of feminsation is to provide women with social visibility, which regards mainly women occupying important posts and functions. In spite of objections of both sociological and linguistic character, the process made rapid headway over the past few decades and many feminized nouns has become common.
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Feminization of agentive nouns in present-day French
Rytinová, Aneta ; Štichauer, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Loucká, Hana (referee)
(in English) The major aim of the thesis is to investigate the different ways of making feminine equivalents to masculine names of professions, titles and ranks based on the data acquired from French and Canadian press archives. Furthermore, the study explores the history of certain frequent feminine forms to analyse the evolutionary changes and, in particular, presents the view of the French-speaking public on this matter. The data collected from the press were compared to the hypothesis and consequently the most occurring feminine forms were selected. In addition, the possible factors causing or preventing the feminization of names are examined in this study. The objective of the questionnaire is to analyse responses depending on the age, gender, and origin of the tested subjects, and to provide an overview of the current trends.
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