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Psí víno by Anna Blažíčková
Barylová, Hana ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Špirit, Michael (referee)
This bachelor's thesis presents a literary analysis of Anna Blažíčková's novella Psí víno. In four chapters I focus on the following: textual components (formal structure, textual coherence and basic narrative structure), linguistic components (stylistic, syntactic, lexical and morphological), characterization (types of characters, means of explicit and implicit characterization, realisation of the theme through characters) and the theme itself (themes of family, loss and work). The aim of this thesis is to discover and present basic structural and thematic components of the novella.
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Old Czech legends and their current treatment
Brožková, Lucie ; Brožová, Věra (advisor) ; Hrabáková, Jaroslava (referee)
Resumé The thesis is focused on the processing of old Czech legends in literature for children. The aim is to show how the writers adapted legend the children. The initial treatment the Old Czech Legends by Alois Jirásek. The theoretical part deals with legends, its types, legends in the folk tradition and legends in children's literature. The practical part is interpreted five books of legends from children's literature. Interpretation shows different ways that authors use to approach reputation child readers, or even shift the topic, if any. The conclusion summarizes the findings arising from the interpretation.
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The position of scene-setting adverbials in English and Czech. A comparison on the basis of parallel texts
Kunstová, Adéla ; Dušková, Libuše (advisor) ; Brůhová, Gabriela (referee)
The subject of the presented paper is the analysis of the position of scene-setting adverbials based on parallel texts. The aim of the study is to find out the most typical position for placing of such adverbials realized by verbless construction and to determine the factors influencing the position in both languages with respect to differences between the Czech and English word order. The theory is based on the functional approach described in Brno linguistic school and is applied to 200 examples from the corpus Intercorp. Out of the given number of examples, exactly one hundred tokens belong to the translation direction from En to Cz and the second half to the opposite direction of translation. With respect to the English word order, which takes over some of the grammatical functions resulting in relative rigidity, scene-setting adverbials are usually placed in the final position. However, it is assumed that most languages have a tendency to place the most important information to the end of the sentence. It follows that one of the goals of this work is to describe the factors allowing these adverbials to be placed in this position with no effect on the communicative dynamism of the adverbials themselves as well as on other sentence elements. The term 'scene-setting' suggests that these adverbials...
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Reporting of global crisis events in Czech print media based on example of Swine Flu
Černá, Lucie ; Kraus, Jiří (advisor) ; Klabíková Rábová, Tereza (referee)
This Diploma thesis deals with some aspects of four chosen Czech daily newspapers referring about the outbreak and early development of events connected with one of the latest significant global crisis - the swine flu, which had broken out in 2009. The theoretical part of the thesis deals with some characteristics of crisis and basic concepts, which might be associated with their media coverage. In the practical part, it deals with the way, how the Czech dailies covered first two weeks of spreading of the disease. At the beginning, the thesis introduces a quantitative profile of the analyzed sample and shows both physical and verbal range of it. The second part is focused on the main topics, which were chosen by all daily newspapers to refer about the swine flu. Those, which did not make it to the main thematic line presented before, are also shortly mentioned in the chapter. In the third part, the thesis follows the main motives appearing in the images that accompanied the news with the chosen topic and also discovers how the disease was "objectified". Finally, language analysis discovering some specific subjective language characteristics referring to a potential personal opinion included by individual authors, or the way how the authors dealt with the coverage of the potential future development...
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Functional Sentence Perspective Articulation in Czech and Japanese
Černáčková, Júlia ; Kanasugi, Petra (advisor) ; Tirala, Martin (referee)
Júlia Černáčková, Vyjadrenie aktuálneho členenia vety v češtine a v japončine Abstract (in English): The aim of the present thesis is to investigate the differences between the articulation of functional sentence perspective in selected Czech and Japanese texts. Examined fields are the following: linear modification, semantic and contextual factors and the use of thematizers and rhematizers. Using four texts- two original texts and their translations- the main differences in the functional sentence perspective articulation in Czech and Japanese are defined. The first, theoretical part of the thesis presents the basic concepts of the theory of functional sentence perspective and their practical application in the Japanese language. The theoretical background of the present thesis is based mainly on the publication Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication by Jan Firbas, but other works related to this area are used and quoted as well. In the second, practical part, comparisons of the results concerning the functional sentence perspective articulation in Czech and Japanese obtained from the analysed texts are presented. Analysed are the distinctions in the functional sentence perspective articulation in thematic, transitional and rhematic layer of the texts and the main differences...
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GENDER IN ART EDUCATION
Svatošová, Zuzana ; Fulková, Marie (advisor) ; Fulka, Josef (referee) ; Kitzbergerová, Leonora (referee)
The dissertation addresses, both theoretically and practically, gender issues in the teaching of art education (AE) at the lower secondary schools. In the theoretical framework, the author defines the concept of gender from a postmodern point of view and places it in a broader cultural and historical context. Gender is further explored in detail through selected post/structural theories, including Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic theory of subjectivity, Michel Foucault's discursive formation of the subject, Judith Butler's gender performativity, Margaret Mead's anthropological conception of femininity and masculinity, and semiotic character theories. The theoretical part also focuses on explaining the paradigm shift in the pedagogical sciences, a description of the necessary balance of radical and postmodern pedagogical constructivism in relation to cultural values and the fulfillment of general and specific educational goals of art education and transformation of contemporary Czech school culture. The possibilities of semiotic gender analysis are described here as specific didactic methods of working with visual representations in the teaching of discursively conceived art education. The research part of the thesis addresses the basic research question: How do art teachers at the lower secondary...
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Analysis of transformations of a politician on an example of Jiří Čunek
Pomšárová, Markéta ; Trampota, Tomáš (advisor) ; Nečas, Vlastimil (referee)
Tématem analýzy je vývoj obrazu politika v celostátním a regionálním deníku na příkladu Jiřího Čunka v období od září 2006 do dubna 2007 (včetně). Analyzovány byly dva z nejčtenějších deníků - celostátní Mladá fronta Dnes a regionální Valašský deník - konkrétně přístupem kvalitativní obsahové analýzy případová studie. Mladá fronta Dnes začala o osobě komunálního politika Jiřího Čunka referovat velmi zvolna. Zájem tohoto celostátního deníku zesílil ve chvíli, kdy byl politik zvolen zákonodárcem a začala se objevovat kontroverzní témata spojená s jeho osobou. V tu chvíli deník začíná přinášet zprávy nejen o politických tématech spojených s J. Čunkem, ale také informace z jeho soukromého života. Naproti tomu Valašský deník o Jiřím Čunkovi, starostovi města Vsetína, referoval bez významnější odmlky dlouhodobě, nicméně postupně rozšiřoval rejstřík témat s ním spojených. Leckdy byly na způsobu podání informací patrné sympatie veřejnosti z regionu i deníku samého k prvnímu muži vsetínské radnice.
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Body as Key Topic in the Prose of Marek Sindelka
Bydžovská, Marie ; Píšová, Ina (advisor) ; Brožová, Věra (referee)
The bachelor's thesis deals with the literary work of the Czech contemporary author Marek Šindelka, specifically with his key prose works Chyba, Zůstaňte s námi, Mapa Anny and Únava materiálu. The analysis of these titles, based mainly on the literary-theoretical approaches of Daniela Hodrová, Blanka Činátlová and linguists George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, focuses on the way in which their central theme of body and physicality manifests itself at various levels of literary work. The aim of the bachelor's thesis is to verify with the appropriate literary tools whether the body and physicality are only a key topic connecting most of Šindelka's texts or whether it enters the deeper levels of the text, eg. as its compositional principle or as - the only valid - way of seeing the world. KEYWORDS Marek Šindelka, contemporary Czech literature, prose, body and physicality, theme, composition, metaphor
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Syntactic and FSP aspects of the existential construction in Norwegian
Dubec, Pavel
The aim of the present thesis is to analyze the Norwegian existential construction (presenteringskonstruksjonen) with regard to syntax, static semantics, dynamic semantics, and functional sentence perspective (FSP). The thesis first introduces the firbasian FSP theory in general, demonstrating the concepts on Norwegian examples. Then the theories most relevant for the study of the existential construction are summarized. The analysis is carried out on a sample of 1000 instances (500 taken from fiction and 500 excerpted from academic prose), and focuses mainly on the notional subject, the verb, and a possible adverbial. The syntactic analysis includes the position and the structure of the notional subject and adverbials. In addition, the lexical semantics of the head words and static semantics of adverbials were observed. The FSP analysis focused on the FSP functions of the individual clause elements and the FSP patterns the existential construction may realize. In addition, the dynamic semantic roles were studied in relation to the static semantic roles. The aim of the analyses is to find out in what circumstances the existential construction may realize the presentation scale or the quality scale, and what functions the construction may perform. The thesis observes the application of FSP on real...
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