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New Dialectological Project of Czech Dictionary of Dialects of the Czech Language
Kloferová, Stanislava
Present-day Czech dialektology stands at the beginning of a news era: a long-term project of the Czech linguistic Atlas (6 volumes) has been finished, and a space opens for another, no less important project: Dictionary of Dialects of the Czech Language which will encompass the lexicon of dialects in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. Preperatory work on it has been taking place concurrently with earlier research tasks (besides the Atlas, the Dictionary of Moravian and Silesian Anoikonyms), but since 2011 the dialectologists concentrate on the project of this Dictionary. In the first phase (until 2015) they will work up entries beginning with A-C. The Dictionary is primarily conceived as an electronic one, it is espected to be connected with other dialectological projects in one interactive web application. The contribution presents the materiál base of the Dictionary and its conception.
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Language and pedagogic edition in Bohemia in the time of Maria-Theresa reform. Back to a big question et small books
Madl, Claire
Before language entered the program of national movement in Bohemia, it was at the core of pedagogical publishing. The issue of the language first revealed a contradiction between two leading principles of the Maria-Theresa’s reform aiming at a diffusion of literacy: the necessity to adapt to pupils on the one hand, the effort to reach out uniformization of schooling on the other hand. Publishing textbooks in Czech became then an economic issue that fostered rivalries between local (Bohemian) actors and central authorities who thrived for a strict centralized publishing and decision making. Finally, printing and publishing school books in Czech led their author to attempt a first normalisation of the transcription of Czech language, far before linguists were forced to do so.
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An annotated translation of Vikram Seth's novel An Equal Music with an introduction to the author, the novel's style and translation complexities
Vlášková, Tereza ; Tobrmanová, Šárka (advisor) ; Šťastná, Zuzana (referee)
The thesis is divided into two parts. The first and crucial part offers a translation of the first two sections of the novel An Equal Music (1999) by Vikram Seth, a postcolonial author of Indian origin. His novel, or "musical romance", is commonly considered to be one of the best novels about music. The translation is followed by a study of the author's life and works, of his style and the reception of his novel and, finally, by an analysis of essential translation problems. The main focus is on speakability issues in various voices throughout the novel; the ambivalence of and difficulty in translating the title; on translation strategies regarding the poetic layers of the text and on the method of translating names and other facts. Given the specific subgenre of the book, the key subchapter analyses the translated musical excerpts from the novel. Keywords Vikram Seth, An Equal Music, contemporary fiction in English, translation, Czech language, style, translation analysis.
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The earliest translations of Jan Nepomuk Štěpánek
Kuncová, Simona ; Topolová, Barbara (advisor) ; Christov, Petr (referee)
This thesis investigates early translation activities of Czech versatile theatre artist Jan Nepomuk Štěpánek. Štěpánek began to translate theatre plays in 1803. The first part of the thesis looks at the personality of Jan Nepomuk Štěpánek in general, theatre context of his translated plays and a translation method in the time of the Czech National Revival. The most important part of the thesis consists of the introduction of five earliest plays, which Štěpánek translated in 1803-1806. His texts are compared with German original texts. On the basis of this comparation, Štěpánek is introduced as a translator and also then theatre practice is partly clarified.
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The Vietnamese Czechs - second generation of immigrants in the Czech Republic
Tran, Alex ; Dolenská, Jana (advisor) ; Adamovičová, Ana (referee)
The Bachelor thesis deals with a position of the 2nd generation of Vietnamese in the Czech Republic - their integration into Czech society on the one hand and their establishment within Vietnamese minority on the other. Based on the study of literature of Vietnamese migration and integration, comparisons of Czech and Vietnamese culture and publications of the members of given generation, we described the specifics of the so-called Second Generation of Vietnamese in the Czech Republic, both in psychological, linguistic, cultural and social terms. In the second, analytically focused part of the thesis, we obtained data on the socio-cultural aspects of young Vietnamese living in the Czech Republic. Keywords: Vietnamese language, Czech language, second generation, "banana children", sociocultural aspects, cultural comparison
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Derivational Morphology of Czech on Large Corpus Data
Faltusová, Marie ; Dytrych, Jaroslav (referee) ; Smrž, Pavel (advisor)
Subject of this thesis is study of word formation in the Czech language. The main aim is to create a module acquiring derivations from data of the electronic Dictionary of the Czech Language. This problematics has been solved by constructing three-level processing based on dictionary data. The first level is to obtain derivations from lemma definitions, the second step is making groups of basic forms according to their similarities, and the third stage is the evaluation of derivation pairs by number tag of derivation class to which they belong. I have managed to get more than 4 500 new words and evaluate over 20 000 derivative couples. The module has become a full-fledged part of the Morphological Analyzer of the Knowledge Technology Research Group, working at the Faculty of Information Technology of the Brno University of Technology.
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