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Phonetic analysis of the 2012 French presidential candidates' political discourse
Opletalová, Kateřina ; Duběda, Tomáš (advisor) ; Tylečková, Lea (referee)
(in English): This thesis focuses on phonetic analysis of political discourse. Four most successful candidates from French presidential elections 2012 were chosen. The aim is to evaluate whether phonetic part of the speech is intentionally modified to satisfy target audience. Results are rather conclusive - there are essential differences among candidates. Contrary to expectations the highest style was found in speech of Marine Le Pen. Other speakers basically used standard style which varied in specific components. Several explanations for all these differencies were presented.
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Italian political discourse and securitization of imigration: the case of revolutions on Maghreb in 2011
Kaleta, Ondřej ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Šánová, Lucie (referee)
The master thesis titled Italian Political Discourse and Securitization of Immigration: the Case of the Maghreb revolutions in 2011 deals with the issue of mass immigration waves reaching Italian shores and, in particular, the tiny island of Lampedusa during the initial phase of the so called Arab Spring. Its main goal lies in reconstruction and interpretation of the political discourse led by Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right government presenting the immigration crisis as a serious threat to national and potentially to European security. The first part introduces the general theoretical framework. The securitization theory of the Copenhagen School was used as an instrument for the thesis, including major criticism raised by the authors belonging to the social constructivist approach. In the second part, the author tries to characterize the basic historical and political context and clarifies the specifics of immigration in contemporary Italy. The last segment contains structuralized discourse analysis of the 2011 events and explores the extraordinary measures adopted and implemented in reaction to the government rhetoric at both the national and supranational levels. In this respect, the author pays special attention to how the process of negotiations finally led to the revision of the EU...
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On the front line of the migration wave. Analysis of securitizing discourse of Silvio Berlusconi's government in Italy in the wake of the Arab Spring in 2011
Kaleta, Ondřej ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Ditrych, Ondřej (referee)
The present thesis titled "On the front line of the migration wave. Analysis of securitizing discourse of Silvio Berlusconi's government in Italy in the wake of the Arab Spring in 2011" deals with the issue of mass immigration waves reaching Italian shores and, in particular, the tiny island of Lampedusa during the initial phase of the so called Arab Spring. Its main goal lies in reconstruction and interpretation of the political discourse led by Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right government presenting the immigration crisis as a serious threat to national and potentially to European security. The first part introduces the general theoretical framework. The securitization theory of the Copenhagen School was used as an instrument for the thesis, including major criticism raised by the authors belonging to the social constructivist approach. In the second part and third parts, the author tries to characterize the basic historical and political context and clarifies the specifics of immigration and migration discourse in contemporary Italy. The last segment contains structuralized discourse analysis of the 2011 events and explores the extraordinary measures adopted and implemented in reaction to the government rhetoric at both the national and supranational levels. In this respect, the author pays...
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National identity in France and its role in the policy of Nicolas Sarkozy
Jedličková, Markéta ; Perottino, Michel (advisor) ; Tomalová, Eliška (referee)
Diploma thesis "National identity in France and its role in the politics of Nicolas Sarkozy" deals with national identity as a political instrument used by the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy during his five-year term (2007-2012). The main objective of this work is to prove that the national identity in his discourse served to increase his popularity or to obtain far-right voters and that Nicolas Sarkozy used this policy instrument throughout his mandate despite the fact that he officially turned away from it after a failed public debate on the subject in 2010. As methodological basis for research on the topic and achievement of the objectives "critical discourse analysis" was selected and also "analysis of metaphors" was used as its complement. In the theoretical part of the thesis some of the basic scientific findings that deal with the "nation", "identity" and the development and construction of "national identity" are presented and discussed . The research consists of three main chapters devoted to the analysis of Nicolas Sarkozys' speeches during the given period. Chapters are divided according to the changing role of national identity in Sarkozy's political discourse - from the campaign tool in 2007, through the recovery of this instrument in 2009 and 2010 to its insertion in the...
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Linguistic tools in French political discourse.
Daňková, Julie ; Loucká, Hana (advisor) ; Slabochová, Dana (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the knowledge of linguistic tools typical for French political discourse. The thesis is based on an analysis of selected political speeches of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy. It tries to capture how a change in a specific political situation of a particular author can affect communicative strategies, discursive practices, and then select the linguistic tools due to the addressee in a particular communicative situation and the communicative intention. The first part of the thesis is focused on the rhetoric and stylistics, which contribute to the typological definition of texts falling within the French political discourse. The second part is based on an analysis of three essential political speeches Nicolas Sarkozy.
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The picture of an outcast: Culture construct of the homelessness in the Current Political and Social Discourse
Stulíková, Vlasta ; Soukup, Martin (advisor) ; Vančatová, Marina (referee)
This paper aims to capture the dominant representations of the homelessness in the recent socio-political discourse. It is base on the examination of the transformations of the way this phenomenon is perceived within communal politics of Prague. Subsequently it attempts to consider the identified representations in the light of chosen theoretical concepts with a special emphasis on the role that the public space in the process of transformation plays in the construction of these representations. The core of the empirical section of the paper consists of the qualitative analysis of the chosen political texts and electoral campaign in Prague in 2010. The analysis itself is preceded by a brief outline of the representation of the homelessness in the pre-revolution era and in the following two decades of the post-revolution development. Following theoretical section of the paper is an attempt to consider the recent representations of the homelessness, emerging from the analysis of the socio-political discourse, in the broader socio-cultural context. At the same time the situation in the Czech Republic is compared to the other western countries based on the foreign researches. The outcome of the paper consists of situating of the empirical analysis based on the theoretical texts in the reality of recent...
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The role of the Czech public media in the pension reform discourse
Tomíčková, Adéla ; Háva, Petr (advisor) ; Mašková, Pavla (referee)
The thesis 'The role of the Czech public media in the pension reform discourse' aims to provide a critical reflection on the role of the Czech Television and the Czech Radio in the debate over the changes in the pension scheme of the Czech Republic. The principal method used for that is the discourse analysis, which comprises quality and quantity analysis of the media output, interviews and personal observation. The research project focuses on the context the debate over the pension reform occurs and how it is presented in the public media. The theoretical part summarizes the theoretical concepts used in the research project, i.e. concepts from the field of public policy, social policy, mass communication and discourse analysis. The empirical part examines the institutional development of the pension reform, its variations in political, scholarly (Czech and international) and public discourse. The major part of the research project is based on the discourse analysis of the pension reform discourse in the Czech public media. The role of the public media in the pension reform discourse is deduced on the basis of the theoretical and empirical parts.
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Persuasion in political discourse: a contrastive analysis
GRABMÜLLEROVÁ, Martina
The aim of this Master's thesis is to analyse the means of persuasion in Czech and Spanish texts of political discourse. The thesis is divided into a theoretical part and a practical part. The first chapter of the theoretical part is focused on the pragmatics. The second chapter deals with the discourse and the specific characteristics of political language. In the last chapter of the theoretical part we introduce the term of persuasion and afterwards we describe the linguistic means of persuasion in political discourse. The practical part is focused on the proper research conducted on the basis of the selected sample of Czech and Spanish political texts. The result of this thesis is a comparison of the data obtained from the analysis between the above mentioned languages. The thesis is finally summarized in Spanish résumé.
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Russia and the EU - Political Relations
Ivanov, Vladimir ; Kratochvíl, Petr (advisor) ; Cibulková, Petra (referee)
The thesis aspires to convey a comprehensive and methodologically well-grounded image of the ideological dimension of political interaction between the EU and Russia. The research is based on the linguistic analysis of four key foreign policy documents, conceived as a continuous dialogue between the EU and Russia, and covering the period between 1994 and 2007. A model comprising several methods used in the study of international relations is applied to the aforementioned documents. The methods in question focus on discourse analysis. The methodological basis of the thesis incorporates the theoretical concepts of social constructivism, speech acts theory and dialogic analysis. Emphasis is placed on understanding the expectations and objectives of actors, the analysis of explicit and implicit messages in the dialogue, the definition of the actors' understanding of self, other and the third party. The thesis also tries to describe and explain the actors' changes in behavior towards each other.
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