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Language development of children in multilingual environment
Flossová, Eva ; Klenková, Jiřina (advisor) ; Korandová, Zuzana (referee)
This diploma thesis have special pedagogical character and it focuses on language development of children from multilingual environment. The reason for this focus is their increasing number. However, there are still relatively few publications on this topic in the Czech Republic because more emphasis is placed on bilingualism. In the theoretical part, is trying to cover the complexity of language development and then deal with the concepts of multilingualism and bilingualism. In the practical part there is a qualitative research investigation based on three case studies of children from multilingual environment. The individual studies describe in detail their language development, including the possible mixing of language codes, and possible communication disabilities. Also, there is trying to find which of the language becomes relaxed for the children. Interviews with parents and class teacher mainly used to obtain data.
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Tendencies in the Usage of 'Anglicisms' in Contemporary Czech Media
Skálová, Zuzana ; Richterová, Jana (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
The bachelor thesis is focused on the occurrence of anglicisms in articles published from 2009 to 2018 in the Czech newspaper, Lidové noviny. The main aim is to distinguish whether the amount of anglicisms used in these articles has increased over the years. The thesis is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part is focused on the explanation of the term anglicism, the history of its usage, its assimilation into the Czech language, and the usage of anglicisms in current communication. The introduction into the matter is executed by exploring the global influence of the English language by showing the extent of language borrowings from English. Other word-formation processes are listed alongside to illustrate the significance of lexical borrowing in terms of a language word-stock enrichment. The practical part is based on a research conducted by analyzing articles on the topic of politics in terms of their richness in anglicisms. The research was conducted using quantitative and qualitative methods. The aim of the analysis is also to determine whether the usage of a specific anglicism is necessary or whether it could be replaced by synonyms of other than English origin. The suitability of the anglicisms found in the articles is evaluated. A comparative analysis of the...
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The Strategies of Bilingual Childen Upbringing in Czech-Russian Speaking Families
PAKHTUSOV, Iurii
The thesis is designed as a qualitative research dealing with the implementation of strategies of bilingual children upbringing in Czech-Russian-speaking families. The main goal of this thesis is to examine the implementation of the bilingual upbringing strategy on Czech-Russian-speaking children between two years and a month of age and seven years and eleven months of age. It attempts to complete the missing information about Czech-Russian bilingualism, while providing characteristics of the strategies of bilingual upbringing which are implemented in the given families. The main goal of this thesis is to discover and describe which strategies of bilingual upbringing are being used in parenting in Czech-Russian-speaking families. The theoretical part introduces bilingualism as a term and its definition, followed by the concepts of bilingual family and bilingual upbringing. Then the strategies of bilingual upbringing, basic phases of bilingual language development in bilingual children, interference and mixing up languages, positive interference, switching the language codes and language borrowing, along with biculturalism and bicultural education are described. At the end, the importance of rituals in family life is discussed. The empirical part was realized on the basis of qualitative research using a semi-structured interview, an assigned Russian Test for Bilingual Children and a summary and interpretation of the results. In the analysis of the data, the OPOL strategy (one parent - one language) and the extension of this strategy, depending on the language knowledge of the parents, was found to be the most used in families. In addition, we found that children had better linguistic skills in families where strategy selection was made in advance and a certain strategy followed, rather than in families where parents did not consider and pursue purely intuitive strategies, or where no strategy has been consistently followed or parents have mixed languages when communicating with each other. These results were confirmed by the Russian Language Test for Bilingual Children, which we used more as a supplementary method, rather than a ěseparate measuring instrument because the research file is not big enough to make a clear conclusion. The results of the test were then analysed qualitatively.
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Gender in Czech language textbooks for the first grade of elementary schools
RÁZLOVÁ, Pavlína
The bachelor's thesis is going to deal with the analysis of gender means used in Czech language readers and course books designed for primary schools. The thesis aims to describe the gender and gender linguistic and their use in Czech education system. The research part is going to analyse the language means used in specific course books and readers. The goal is to assess to what extent the gender means used are appropriate or inappropriate. An additional goal is to look into ways gender means are used and also to examine the change in the perception of these means, comparing recent course books and readers with those published before 1989.
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Types of adverbs in the language of baroque texts and their development
KLIMEŠOVÁ, Markéta
Adverbs constitute an important element in expressing circumstances. In our dissertation we try to present various types of adverbs in the language of texts which date back to 17th and 18th centuries (so-called Baroque period). The word-formation aspect of these adverbs and the development of their meaning are emphasized. Different semantic shifts of adverbs are observed as well as their usage with functions of different parts of speech (usually particles or conjunctions). The development of adverbs found in Baroque texts is compared both with older language period and with some results of their development in contemporary Czech.
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The evolution of progressive verb forms within the language system from late Middle English to Early Modern English
JOZOVÁ, Dominika
The aim of my thesis is to map the occurrence of the progressive verb forms in the English language from the period of the end of the 14th century to the beginning of the 18th century. The theoretical reading is based on the history of language development, its typological development and the development of the verb in terms of morphology. In the practical part I deal with the analysis of selected texts and I search for shapes marking the progressive form. I am looking for a connection with the typological development and development of the education in society mentioned in the practical part.
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