|
Politeness in television political discussion
Dufek, Ondřej ; Moravec, Václav (referee) ; Kraus, Jiří (advisor)
Diploma thesis Politeness in Television Political Discussion deals with specific nature of politeness and impoliteness use in mediated political discourse, illustrating it with the Czech Television programme Questions of Václav Moravec. In the first part it defines television political debate as a genre. Then it summarizes development of politeness theories both in world and Czech pragmatic and pragmalinguistic tradition. After synthetising the main conceptions it comes out with its own version of theory of politeness and impoliteness, basing it on Cooperation Principle and politeness theory with utilization of face concept. Then it applies theoretical principles in practical debate analysis and pays attention to the most distinct agents of politeness and impoliteness expression. In conclusion it identifies characteristic regularities of politeness and impoliteness usage in television political discussion and adverts to relevant factors that influence the shape of communication. The diploma thesis helps to map this little explored field, in which conflict interferes with cooperation as two antagonistic forces, and explains their interaction by the usage of politeness and impoliteness.
|
|
The morbidity of infants in connection with infant swimming
NOVOTNÁ, Eva
The infant swimming stands for harmonic movement of the infant in the water caused by effective moves which keep the swimmer afloat. However, it does not lead to mastering the basic swimming skills. During infancy, the rapid mental development, maturation of central nervous system and physical growth take place. The infants meet the diseases for the first time. These can be the infectious, respiratory, eye, skin, ear diseases, urinary tract and the digestive system diseases. Also the allergy can turn up. The infant swimming positively influences the infants, but more and more objections are stated in connection with area of risks that can cause negative impact on infant?s health. Some of the paediatricians do not recommend the infant swimming at all. The aim of this bachelor?s thesis is to explore morbidity of infants who participate in infant swimming courses. For the empirical part, the quantitative research, using questionnaires and secondary analysis data from medical records given by a general practitioner for children and adolescents, was used. The research group were children who took part in infant swimming courses. The research with questionnaire was conducted on the grounds of swimming pool of the city Jindřichův Hradec. The electronic form of the questionnaire, thanks to which the parents from the other parts of the Czech Republic were addressed, was used to enhance the research group. The survey attended 141 parents in total. The medical records contained information about 62 children who took part in infant swimming and 22 children who did not. The data are collected on children who attended the infant swimming courses a year ago. Two research questions were defined. The first defined research question: ?Is there a relationship between the stay in swimming pool and the occurrence of diseases of infants?? The source for the answer for this research question was a conducted survey. The result of this survey is that the continuity of diseases of children who attend infant swimming courses was confirmed in 5 % of cases, from which the disease did not occurred again in three cases where the swimming pool was changed for other. The most current diseases were the fever, virus infection, respiratory diseases, atopic eczema and mollusci. The second defined research question: ?Is there a relationship between a regular stay in the swimming pool and repeated occurrence of respiratory diseases and skin diseases?? For this research question, the two hypotheses were established for the statistical evaluation. Hypothesis 1: ?The infants who regularly attend the infant swimming courses do suffer a repeated occurrence of respiratory diseases in contrary to the infants who do not attend infant swimming courses.? and hypothesis 2: ?The infants who regularly attend the infant swimming courses do suffer a repeated skin diseases in contrary to the infants who do not attend infant swimming courses.? The results of the medical records of infants which included a comparison of infants attending the infant swimming courses with non-swimmers shows that regular stay in the swimming pool does not increase the risk of repeated respiratory diseases and skin diseases. Concluding from the above results, the infant swimming has no negative impact on the health of infant in case of following further conditions, for example the individual assessment of the health status of the infant, discussion of the health status of the infant with the family general practitioner and compliance the half an hour acclimatization after the infant swimming courses before entering the external environment. The results can help for the development of preventive measures before the onset of diseases associated with the infant swimming courses, help to the trainers of infant swimming and also to the doctors when deciding on the recommendations of these courses.
|
|
Politeness in television political discussion
Dufek, Ondřej ; Kraus, Jiří (advisor) ; Jirák, Jan (referee)
Rigorosum thesis Politeness in Television Political Discussion deals with specific nature of politeness and impoliteness use in mediated political discourse, illustrating it with the Czech Television programme Questions of Václav Moravec. In the first part it defines television political debate as a genre. Then it summarizes development of politeness theories both in world and Czech pragmatic and pragmalinguistic tradition. After synthetising the main conceptions it comes out with its own version of theory of politeness and impoliteness, basing it on Cooperation Principle and politeness theory with utilization of face concept. Then it applies theoretical principles in practical debate analysis and pays attention to the most distinct agents of politeness and impoliteness expression. In conlusion it identifies characteristic regularities of politeness and impoliteness usage in television political discussion and adverts to relevant factors that influence the shape of communication. The rigorosum thesis helps to map the field, in which conflict interferes with cooperation as two antagonistic forces, and explains their interaction by the usage of politeness and impoliteness. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
|
| |
|
The "Non-citizen" Issue in Latvia during the EU Accession Process
Kofránková, Alžběta ; Švec, Luboš (advisor) ; Vykoukal, Jiří (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to examine the attitude of the European Union to the non- citizen issue in Latvia during the accession talks and its impact on legislative changes in Latvia in this area. The thesis asks such questions as whether Latvia has fulfilled all formal and informal criteria of the accession to the European Union concerning non-citizens and whether the recommendations that were part of the European Commission's regular reports were effective. Further I would like to answer the question how important the other two international bodies were, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the Council of Europe, and to what extent the European Union was dependent on their recommendations. Using primary and secondary sources, I will try to show that the main aim of the reports was to improve the situation of non-citizens in Latvia, bringing in the standards of the European Union. Becoming a member of the European Union, Latvia has theoretically fulfilled the required conditions; the question is what the situation has been like in practice.
|
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
guest ::
