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A Critical Semiotic Study of Finnish, Latvian and Czech Myths
Pintāne, Inese ; Švantner, Martin (advisor) ; Váša, Ondřej (referee)
This Master's thesis invites its readers into the realm of myths where various deities and mythical creatures dwell and spend their days creating the human world and different cultural artefacts. To find out more about this realm and its possible variations, the author of this Master's thesis has chosen to study myths of relatively distinct nations. Since the author is familiar with the local language and customs of Finns, Latvians and Czechs, the author's choice fell on the myths of the given nations. Since everything in the realm of myths is in constant flux, the only way to detect what was considered valuable in it by its inhabitants at some point in time was to pause this process. To do it, the author approached the myths through the method called transvaluation developed by James Jakób Liszka in his book "The Semiotic of Myth: A Critical Study of the Symbol" (1989). Although still not very familiar among folklore scholars, this method enabled the author to view myths as trilevel entities and detect in them various social constructs passed from generation to generation. As the readers will later see, the author was able, by approaching myths from the perspective of transvaluation, to reveal various norms encoded in them. Keywords: Finns, Latvians, Czechs, myths, Liszka, transvaluation,...
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Comparation of marketing communication of two tourist destinations towards czech customer
Kočer, Ondřej ; Koudelková, Petra (advisor) ; Rosenfeldová, Jana (referee)
The bachelor's thesis "Comparation of marketing communication of two tourist destinations towards czech customer" deals with tourism and its popularity among Czech travelers and focuses specifically on the region of Italy and Switzerland. At the same time, it focuses on the marketing communication of these destinations aimed at potential Czech customers and analyzes its content and the communication channels through which it is disseminated. It explains the concepts related to the topic, presents many graphs and tables related to European tourism in the last decade and compares the tourism itself in both destinations. The practical part of the work consists of quantitative research in the form of an online questionnaire survey, subsequent analysis of the results and proposed recommendations. This part of the work serves to verify or refute the researched hypotheses, which deal, among other things, with knowledge of marketing communication of individual destinations, its importance and relation to their attractiveness to Czech customers. The result of the work is a comprehensive view of the researched topic, a comparison of communication activities of both destinations and an analysis of respondents' answers.
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Language isolate of Jihlava before 1939
Karafiát, Jakub ; Beneš, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Šmíd, Marek (referee)
The aim of this MA dissertation is to focus on the language isolate of Jihlava mostly in the 20th century. In particular, on the events regarding the situation during the First Republic, when the tension between the Czech and German speaking citizens started to increase. The first part will be dedicated to a territorial and administrative division in order to establish grounds upon which the discussed events will be clarified and described in terms of ethnic and territorial situation. To resume the topic of my BA thesis and to accentuate the facts and results with regard to geographical demarcation, I would like to focus on the presidial writings from which I have already drawn in said thesis. I will attempt to reconstruct all the sources, except for the letters taken from archives which I have already used in my BA thesis. Emphasis will be put on the policy situation and then reports of the security authorities which were monitoring the difficult situation in the language isolate of Jihlava and which were reporting all the relevant information.
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Czechs and Germans in Prague: a competition of associational life at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
Kočárková, Kateřina ; Zelená, Alena (advisor) ; Emler, David (referee)
The work is devoted to Czech-German coexistence in Prague, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1848, the Czechs found themselves in the involuntary role of supporters of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, within which the Czech-speaking population had to live alongside the Germans, who also belonged to the territory. The coexistence of the two nations was unproblematic, rather variable, which was also reflected in the political and social spheres of life. The Czech-German coexistence was important for the development of the associational life. The creation and subsequent competition of these associations are the focus of this thesis. Three Czech institutions which were important for the contemporary cultural and social life and which had an analogous German pair were selected: The National Theatre and the New German Theatre, the Arco Cafe and the Union, and the Deutsches Casino together with the Měšťanská beseda. Their friendly and hostile tendencies and competition between them were examined.
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Language Island of Strýčice. The Life of Inhabitants During Years 1938-1946 From the Perspective of Economic and Social History
REITINGER, Tomáš
This bachelor theses focuses on the approach of everyday life of German and Czech inhabitants in the area of the language island of Strýčice (German Die Stritschitzer Sprachinsel) between years 1938-1946. It shows the process of changes that occurred in the researched period, using the perspective of economic and social history. It compares the situation between individual villages of the linguistic island and also in its surrounding. It also provides general overview of the local economic situation. It is necessary to emphasize the use of oral history and statistics as the main methods which were used.
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Czech migration and integration in Ireland
Konrádová, Marie ; Drbohlav, Dušan (advisor) ; Čaněk, Marek (referee)
The thesis deals with the nature and the causes of the Czech migration into Ireland. Globalization, the available information and communication technologies and in general more accessible forms of transportation allow millions of people to effectuate their migration plans. From the historical point of view, migration is not unknown to Czech people. The goal of the thesis is to investigate the form and type of Czech migration into Ireland and to understand the causes and reasons of this migration and, if possible, determine whether the Czechs are transmigrants. Furthermore, the thesis deals with the integration of Czech people into the Irish job market and other areas of the life of Irish society. To achieve this, both quantitative and qualitative methods are used. The thesis aims to bring a compact portrayal of migration and integration of the chosen sample of the Czech immigrants into Ireland. Additionally, the thesis elicits particular underlying factors of integration and migration. Key words: Work migration, migration motivation of Czechs, integration, job market assertion, social integration, remittance, integration rate 2
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North Bohemian Museum in Liberec in Changing Times - Supplement to Czech-German Relations
Vladařová, Leona ; Foltýn, Dušan (advisor) ; Pokorný, Jiří (referee)
This bachelor thesis tries to describe the development of the North Bohemian Museum in Liberec (Nordböhmische Gewerbemuseum Reichenberg) since 1873, when the museum was established, to the present. Because the museum is located in a border region, where the nations of Czechs and Germans were mingled, it also tries to show the conditions in the border region and especially in Liberec, and how the Czechs and Germans competed against each other. In my thesis is also focused on the beginning of museums in Czechia and it also mentions about the Czech Náprstek's Industrial Museum, which was a competition and a model of the German Museum in Liberec.
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Czechs and Germans in the Czech Budejovice in the 2nd half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century
Soušek, Josef ; Foltýn, Dušan (advisor) ; Pokorný, Jiří (referee)
This thesis focuses on the relationships between Czechs and Germans in České Budějovice during the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. The main emphasis is on the influence the church had on the relationships between the two nations in the time and place mentioned above, as they were described in the collected sources and historic literature. This thesis concentrates mainly on these topics: religious life, community life and education. The conclusion of my work is the discovery that the church and the individual congregations did not participate in the national struggle in the town. They only tried to work to the benefit of the town and its citizens. In case they set up organizations such as schools, clubs, hospitals, it was because they were missing in the town or because they did not exist in sufficient numbers for the ever-evolving town of České Budějovice. It did not matter whether it was a school for Czech or German children, for example. Also, the nationality of the members of the church and congregations themselves was not necessarily decisive. Although the knowledge of both Czech and German language in the town was an important prerequisite. More significant problems arose only with the Redemptorist college, which became unintentionally by the...
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Analysis of the problem of the transfer of Germans in the newspapers between 1945-1946
Gročková, Marie ; Štemberk, Jan (advisor) ; Cviklová, Lucie (referee)
For my diploma thesis I chose the topic: Analysis of the problematics of the expulsion of Germans in the period press of 1945-1946. In the first part of the thesis I will focus on the methodology and the chosen type of analysis. Then, in the theoretical background of my work, I will interpret the development of the relationship between the Czechs and the Germans, I will try to describe in detail when the first conflicts between the two nations began. In addition, I will deal with the expulsion of the Germans as such, as well as its phases, taking into account the establishment of the system of internment camps, the decrees of the president of the republic and the views of both nations on the issue. In the last chapter I will deal with the analysis of the press from 1945-1946. My aim will then be to describe the discourse of post-war Czechoslovakia regarding the expulsion of Germans, the attitude of the powers on an international scale, but also the visions of the future Czechoslovak Republic, as it was established by then political representation.
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