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Multi-Aspectual Analysis of Personal E-mails
Šilhavá, Romana ; Pípalová, Renata (advisor) ; Hrobařová, Barbora (referee)
This study is aimed at the genre of personal, informal, exclusively British e-mails. I analyze this extremely progressive field multi-aspectually. The aspects I concentrate on are graphic, morphological, lexical and pragmatic. Additionally, a separate chapter is dedicated to ellipses. Furthermore, I include analysis based on Biber's conception of dimensions. Most of the linguistic features are statistically evaluated and subsequently interpreted. My results demonstrate the tendency of written e-mails to share many characteristics with the spoken English language. My data seem to suggest that this genre is hugely affected by the contemporary trend of economizing the language. Simultaneously, this research reveals that what permeates the written media of personal emails considerably is orality. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Foreign language teaching and learning as an instrument of intercultural education by adults
Blažková Sršňová, Šárka ; Beneš, Milan (advisor) ; Kopecký, Martin (referee) ; Jakoubek, Marek (referee)
The doctoral thesis deals with questions of intercultural education in context of foreign language teaching and learning by adults. Language and culture are interrelated and inseparable from each other in terms of their acquirement. Language is the main medium through which culture is expressed, language doesn't exist without culture. Contemporary foreign language education gives priority to integrative acquiring of language and culture, i.e. it is necessary to learn culture by means of language and language by means of culture. Culture and interculturality are significant and key part of foreign language education and fundamental for the development and formation of the student's personality. The main topic of this thesis is the study of the relationship between foreign language teaching and learning versus intercultural learning by adults. The main goal of the thesis is to find and describe what possibilities and media contemporary foreign language learning and teaching anticipate for involving and implementing of culturological paradigm. The text also focuses on some problematical questions in view of the essence of intercultural education, namely in relation to foreign language education. The thesis concerns with the language education of adults in the Czech Republic.
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Contemporary Mayan poetry
Matochová, Hana ; Housková, Anna (advisor) ; Vydrová, Hedvika (referee)
At the beginning of this study, we try to include the contemporary mayan poetry written on the Yucatán Peninsula into the mexican literature context. We adopt a postmodern view which applies special features as texts written in spanglish or the indigenous literary stream in order to produce an image of a border as a creative space. In the following chapter some statistics about actual situation of yucatec maya language are presented. Further we mention the differences between the yucatec literature written in spanish since the beginning of the 20th century and the mayan literature. In the case of the latter one we have enclosed a definition of the mayan literature written in spanish, because it is the major topic of this work. It is based on the fact that the bilingual authors use to write in the mayan language and later they make translations of their own texts. Consequently we bring a brief presentation of a historical review of mayan filology, putting emphasis on the eighties of the 20th century, when the most important steps towards this renascence were done. This part is completed by the opinion of a contemporary poet Cocom Pech, observing the changes and the media impact on this cultural phenomenon after the inssurection of zapatistas. Later on we analyse the problem of intercultural comprehension. In...
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The language of Italian young people and its specifications
Najmanová, Petra ; Špaček, Jiří (advisor) ; Štichauer, Pavel (referee)
The main aim of the thesis is to analyze the language of Italian youth with its all aspects, characteristics and relation to the cornrnon language. I try to realize the inf1uence of particular social factors and difference of the cornrnon language of youth from language of preceding generations. At present is the young generation cornrnunication linked as never before with various advanced technologies such are pes or cell phones. These are main factors inf1uencing the language of youth. Another issue create mass media e.g. television and radio broadcasting, press, which are interfering the age-group with a view to address and profit. Great portion in forrnation ofthe language of youth is predisposed by altemative music styles, sports, literature (comics), certain role plays slang e.g. ofthe drog cornrnunity.
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The ways of enriching the Arabic lexicon with a special respect to journalistic style
Bielický, Viktor ; Oliverius, Jaroslav (referee) ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor)
The present study consists of two parts. The first, theoretical part focuses on brief and mostly lexical characteristics of the Arabic media language style (Chapter 2) and describes in outline all word-formational methods used in Modern Standard Arabic for lexical innovation, especially in the field of scientific and technical vocabulary (Chapter 3), i.e. derivation (ištiqq), lexical borrowing (tacrb), composition (nah t), semantic extension (maz), and translation (tarama). The second part (Chapter 4), based on a digitalized corpus of newspaper texts (Lebanese daily newspaper al-H ayt), deals in detail with word-formational, structural, syntactic, and semantic analysis of selected one-word, compound and multi-word lexical units (collocations) in Modern Standard Arabic. An Arabic-Czech dictionary of all lexical material treated in the text is attached to the study (Appendix).
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An analysis of the contemporary song texts in romani
Skočovská, Markéta ; Červenka, Jan (referee) ; Andrš, Zbyněk (advisor)
My bachelor's thesis is a study of contemporary Romani musical texts. In particular, I focus on the thematic analysis of the texts, their compositional and linguistic style, as well as their function in present-day life. Romani song texts have always been one of the cultural attributes with which the cultural identity of Roma has been strengthened. The question I have posed is whether the texts of current songwriters still fulfill this function. I selected six Romani authors of song texts, who at the same time act as the musical interpreters of their own works. They are Mario Bihari, Jan Duzda, Marie Duzdova, Desiderius Duzda, Radoslav "Gipsy" Banga, and members of the band Gulo čar. They represent various musical genres and an age range between twenty-two and forty-four years. Original texts released on musical media after the year 2000 served as the material for the study. All of the analyzed texts, with their Czech translations, can be found in the appendix. In the chapter entitled "Thematic Analysis" I conclude that the most common themes in the analyzed texts have to do with human emotions, experiences and life events. Each author has a different manner of working with these motives. The following chapter, "The Language and Style of the Texts," considers the ways in which the themes are expressed. In...
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Soft power in Taiwan's diplomatic practice
Nová, Šárka ; Peterková, Jana (advisor) ; Knotková, Vladimíra (referee)
Due to its fragile position in the international community, Taiwan has used soft power projection and public diplomacy tools to present its values and to enforce its national interests. This work identifies and examines principal sources and instruments of soft power implemented in Taiwan's diplomatic practice. Taiwan is attractive to other countries especially for its values, culture and economic strength. It currently enhances its influence mainly via cultural projects, educational programs, foreign policy practice, economic soft power, gastrodiplomacy and media, specifically focusing on development and humanitarian aid, active participation in international bodies and clarifying its standpoint towards PRC, celebrity diplomacy, and on publishing foreign language books and informational texts about the country. It will be crucial for the future of Taiwan's public diplomacy to either focus on areas that have not been attractive so far, or to use the strategy of niche diplomacy. With better institutional coordination, well-targeted public diplomacy strategy and national brand making, Taiwan can continue in making its world image better.
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The internet television for the Deaf children and youth - WEBlik
Basovníková, Marie ; Hynková Dingová, Naďa (advisor) ; Macurová, Alena (referee)
RESUME The aim of this thesis is to describe one of the media primarily designed for the Deaf users. Website WEBlik - Internet TV offers broadcasting for the Deaf children and youth. It also deals with perception of WEBlik TV. Part of the thesis is a conclusion of a research with a specificgoal to findouthowthe Czech Deaf perceive the reports published at WEBlik TV: videorecordings, short videos, reports from artistic performances and other broadcasted news and reports. The content of the website - WEBlik TV - is presented mostly in the Czech Sign Language, which is the primary language of the Czech Deaf community. Some of the reports are occasionally published in other national Sign Language or in International Sign System. All videos in Sign Languages or in International Sign Systém are provided with a summary of their content in written Czech, in order to make the content of the WEBlik website accesible to the widest range of viewers. These short summaries cannot be called Czech subtitles, becausethey are not directly on the screen, it is morelike a transcription of them essage into Czech language. The aim of the paper - thesis - was to describe real user perspective of WEBlik TV, and/or to note the requests for enhancements of WEBlik, because it is the only visual media of its kind that is currently...
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Foreign language teaching and learning as an instrument of intercultural education by adults
Blažková Sršňová, Šárka ; Beneš, Milan (advisor) ; Kopecký, Martin (referee) ; Jakoubek, Marek (referee)
The doctoral thesis deals with questions of intercultural education in context of foreign language teaching and learning by adults. Language and culture are interrelated and inseparable from each other in terms of their acquirement. Language is the main medium through which culture is expressed, language doesn't exist without culture. Contemporary foreign language education gives priority to integrative acquiring of language and culture, i.e. it is necessary to learn culture by means of language and language by means of culture. Culture and interculturality are significant and key part of foreign language education and fundamental for the development and formation of the student's personality. The main topic of this thesis is the study of the relationship between foreign language teaching and learning versus intercultural learning by adults. The main goal of the thesis is to find and describe what possibilities and media contemporary foreign language learning and teaching anticipate for involving and implementing of culturological paradigm. The text also focuses on some problematical questions in view of the essence of intercultural education, namely in relation to foreign language education. The thesis concerns with the language education of adults in the Czech Republic.
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Theory of interventions and the concept of minimal intervention
Cvrček, Václav ; Sgall, Petr (advisor) ; Čermák, František (referee) ; Kořenský, Jan (referee)
Theory of Interventions Theory of Interventions was elaborated as a general methodological and sociolinguistic theory describing 1) influences which can change the language development (types of intervention, their effect and their classification) and 2) the possible ways how to design relationship between linguists, speakers and language. According to this theory, language is an object which is exposed to interventions (metaphor of an Brownian motion from physics, p. 19). Among other possible divisions, interventions can be of two types: individual and institutionalized (p. 18). Individual interventions include processes of (self-)censorship, proofreading or language management in media. These interventions create a spontaneous order, they are plural and variable. Therefore they mutually interfere and their impact is very small or none (they almost never influence the immanent evolution of language). On the other hand, institutionalized interventions include processes leading to standardization of language, language education or language politics. Impact of institutionalized interventions can influence development of language, because they are monopoly and because of their authority.
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