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Secondary prepositions in English and Czech contemporary journalistic texts
Melíšková, Petra ; Klégr, Aleš (referee) ; Malá, Markéta (advisor)
Secondary prepositions constitute an interesting field of study, making it possible for the class of prepositions to expand. In the present thesis we shall try to address several questions which pose themselves in connection with this sub-class. The class appears to be heterogeneous with respect to the origin, semantic characteristics, and the degree to which the prepositions can be considered well-established or of a more ad hoc, occasional nature. This may also be influenced by the style of the text in which they are used. We shall focus on secondary prepositions in contemporary British newspapers, comparing their occurrence in the quality papers and in tabloids. We shall compare our findings with the situation in contemporary Czech newspapers, using Mladá fronta DNES and Blesk as sources of excerption. In the Czech language secondary prepositions seem to be a typical feature of technical style where the phenomenona examined has to be expressed absolutely precisely. Secondary prepositions have been penetrating from the scientific functional style into other styles, mainly to journalistic texts. Hence, the main goal of our dissertation will be collection of language material (secondary prepositions) from English newspaper and its further analysis observing the criteria stated in further sections of this...
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Estrogen receptor beta (ERβ) in testicular cells and sperm
Dostálová, Pavla ; Žatecká, Eva ; Děd, Lukáš ; Dorosh, Andriy ; Postlerová, Pavla ; Jonáková, Věra ; Dvořáková-Hortová, Kateřina ; Pěknicová, Jana
Estrogen is a steroid hormone that plays an important role during sperm development in the male and female reproductive tract. Estrogen signalling is a complex process that depends on cell milieu and presence of receptors. Thanks to the steroid nature of estrogens, they can pass through the plasmatic membrane and bind to the intracellular estrogen receptors (ERs). Within the cell, there are several pools of ERs. One of them is localized to the cell nucleus and their activation leads to direct or indirect binding to DNA and ultimately to alternation in gene expression (genomic pathway). Other pools of ERs are associated with plasma membrane or are located in cytosol. Activation of membrane associated ERs leads to rapid non-genomic responses. Nowadays, two classical estrogen receptors are known – ERα and ERβ. Since ERβ is a predominant variant in testes, we focused our study on expression of ERβ variants in murine testes and sperm. We detected two variants of ERβ at mRNA level in both, testes and sperm. These variants differ in 54 nucleotids within the ligand binding domain and this variability results in different affinity to estrogen. We analyzed individual testicular cell types (spermatogonia, spermatocytes, spermatids, Sertoli cells) by RT-qPCR. Our results suggest that both ERβ variants are coexpressed in the same cell type and may therefore interact together. This may have consequences in mediating of estrogen signalling. Moreover, ERβ is expressed more in the later stages of spermatogenesis suggesting the role of ERβ in these stages or alternatively in spermatozoa alone. At the protein level, we detected ERβ in nuclear, membrane and cytosolic fraction prepared from testicular tissue suggesting the involvement of both, genomic and non-genomic, pathways of estrogen signaling in testes. In sperm, anti-ERβ antibodies localized ERβ in acrosome region and tail which is in accordance with the known role of estrogen on capacitation, acrosome reaction and motility.
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English modal verb "must" ("have to") and its Czech counterparts
Libertin, Daniel ; Dušková, Libuše (referee) ; Šaldová, Pavlína (advisor)
The presented study focuses on the English modal verb must. It will attempt to explore its use in English and its corresponding Czech translation counterparts. The aim of this study is to examine the correspondences and differences between the uses of must and the respective Czech devices of expressing modality, in order to present a contrastive analysis of the means of expressing modality in both languages. In the theoretical part of the study, an overview of meanings, uses and functions of must in English with a focus on the extrinsic/intrinsic differentiation will be introduced. Its morphological features will be also described. This will be backed up by a short description of the concepts of modality and modal verbs. A brief outline of the situation in the Czech language will be also included, with the aim to introduce the points of contrast between the English must and the Czech modal verb muset, as well as the frequent use of modal particles/adverbs in Czech. In the empirical part, an analysis based on 179 occurrences of the verb must and its authentic counterparts in Czech will be provided. The analysis will be divided into two stages. In the first stage, the findings will be classified into the semantic subcategories according to the type of modality. The second stage will attempt to render a...
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Interier and exterier. garden as a strategy of a creative process
Moralesová, Alexandra ; Petříček, Miroslav (advisor) ; Vojtěchovský, Miloš (referee)
This essay reflects on the meaning of a garden, mainly decorative, in European context. Such garden is explored as an act of representation. The variability of models of an ideal garden can be seen as a direct manifestation of variability of paradigms always inevitably connected to the ways of representation, which are the expression of the dominant ideology (where politics and aesthetics coexist). In that perspective we are dealing with the "Garden ? la francaise" and its latter counterpart, the "English landscape park". But at the same instant two essential questions arise: the first one asks whether we shouldn't talk about narration rather than of representation, and the second one looks into the possibility of perceiving a garden not through concepts and notions but as a strategy of creative process instead. That option has been opened up in this essay and supported by several examples of artworks, where their author's imaginative process might be likened to a garden.
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Nights with Mr. Němec
Nesvačilová, Petra ; Marek, Petr (advisor) ; Gogola, Jan (referee)
Bachelor thesis on the life and meaning of John German, which I put in work and life of John the Germans and especially for me on his very interesting documentary film Night Talks with Mother, where German and saying goodbye to communicate with his mother and tells her through the film things unsaid. And I myself into position to stop by John German, which for me means freedom of expression and at the same time games and manipulation of them. And through this I rda Bachelors Washing looked at herself in his films and principles of this speech and John Germans alone. Work will be based on a literary document, which I shoot with them through sound, and the rewrite to the script (bakal.prace) and then the literary film
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Splitting word compounds
Oberländer, Jonathan ; Pecina, Pavel (advisor) ; Hlaváčová, Jaroslava (referee)
Unlike the English language, languages such as German, Dutch, the Skandinavian languages or Greek form compounds not as multi-word expressions, but by combining the parts of the compound into a new word without any orthographical separation. This poses problems for a variety of tasks, such as Statistical Machine Translation or Information Retrieval. Most previous work on the subject of splitting compounds into their parts, or ``decompounding'' has focused on German. In this work, we create a new, simple, unsupervised system for automatic decompounding for three representative compounding languages: German, Swedish, and Hungarian. A multi-lingual evaluation corpus in the medical domain is created from the EMEA corpus, and annotated with regards to compounding. Finally, several variants of our system are evaluated and compared to previous work. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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In the Course of Playback Theatre´s Theatricality
Kočner, Karel ; Vyskočil, Ivan (advisor) ; Malaníková, Hana (referee)
Playback theatre (abbreviated below as PT) was developed by Jonathan Fox and his
wife Jo Salas in 1975. The Original Playback Theatre Company was established in
the same year. Since that time, the PT has been practiced in over 50 countries all
over the world.
PT is improvisational theatre approach, in which is never known how the
performance will look like and how it will be fulfilled. PT enforce learning to
spontaneity of expression in the code of conscious inspired creative developing of
unknown situation and existing in it on the stage in the same way as during Acting
with the Inner Partner(s) lessons. PT performances are developed in certain structure
and have stable course. That is how PT is enforced as ritual scheme, which has
purgative ability and artistic power able to gather people together and teach them
reciprocity, sharing and coexistence.
Basic principal of PT is storytelling of private stories, events or life experiences as
emotions, fantasies, dreams or ideas and sharing them by all participating. These are
thereupon improvisationally played back to so called teller by a group of actors on the
stage. That is how those stories are upraised on a higher level of theatre pieces.
Whether is story anyhow simple, difficult, deep, trivial, lightweight or serious, it must
be always foremost and it also must be played from this point of view.
It is not purpose to make fun primarily with it, but to use collective moment, in which
we learn to listen one to another. We also learn to respect others and their personal
experiences and their understanding the world. PT actors are not in the center of
public attention as during classical type of theatre performances, but they serve
straightly to audience´s stories. They enact them with humility and respect with
purpose of feast event experience.
This discipline interests me by its universality of being used in different types of
environment, by its richness of inspiration, by its education potentiality and by its
artistic value.
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Schizophrenia Realised by the Cinematic Speech
Kovář, Vladimír ; Trajkov, Ivo (advisor) ; Dolenský, Martin (referee)
The presented thesis attempts to find the adequate ways to express the specific disorders of schizophrenia cinematically via the study of the illness on the psychological basis. Studying the diverse layers of the schizophrenic personality such as thinking, concentration, memory, perception and cognitive and perceptive processes, it tries to find the causes of the specific disorders. It also defines the state caused by these and later it focuses on the procedures (audiovisual fragments, editing, dramaturgy etc.) which could cinematically transfer the audience inside the head of the schizophrenic. It especially focuses on the hallucinations and their dramaturgic potential. When certain rules are preserved, the hallucination provides an instrument giving the infinite possibilities of slipping on the border between the real and the unreal. Therefore, it exceeds the framework of this thesis towards the general cinematic speech.
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Benetton - creator of the new advertising speech
Miškovská, Vanda ; Musilová, Helena (advisor) ; Stein, Štěpánka (referee)
My bachelor work follows the evolution of the image of the Italian clothing company Benetton, which addressed society by its unconventional way of expression and attitude to promote their own products. We can see how first interesting and shocking advertising was replaced by ordinary and banal promotion. The main merit of the brand carries world famous photographer Oliviero Toscani, who is the creator of innovative forms of Benetton advertisement. It is evident, that after his departure from the firm in 2001 leaves also certain creative spirit of the company.
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Masochism in Orlan's art from psychoanalytic view
Páleníková, Linda ; Musilová, Helena (advisor) ; Silverio, Robert (referee)
This thesis examines the controversial work of French artist Orlan with regard to social and historical context. Her creative output is heavily influenced by French feminist theories, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Orlan is best known for her performances, during which she underwent facial plastic surgery according to historical patterns of beauty. This artistic act has a self-destructive character, which can be noted in case of many body art artists. In my paper, I briefly present the evolution of Orlan's work, focusing on the gradual formation and defining of her artistic expression, which in the end led to a series of plastic surgeries called Reincarnation St. Orlan. I use these performances as an illustration to explain masochism in women's art. The paper's goal is to throw light at the working principles of the destructive instinct, according to psychoanalysis. Furthermore, the paper looks at pain not merely as a form of artistic
expression, but tries to consider its profound nature and motives that are associated with it.
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