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Questioning Techniques in Spoken Media Discourse: Analysis of Authentic Data in Two Television Genres.
HLUŠÍ, Soňa
This paper analyses and compares questioning techniques in two different television genres. It employs the method of Conversation Analysis to identify the use and purpose of questions in media talk. Questions play a very important role in broadcast talk, and the paper looks at how they are used in interviews. It does this by examining the role of the interviewer, whose task is to create the structure of an interaction, determine the direction of conversation and obtain information, and their effect on the interviewee. The data of the two different television genres; the political interview and the talk show interview are analysed in order to compare questioning techniques and their effect on interviewees. The analysis is based on two different video recordings (one from each genre) and their transcripts.
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Charity donation analysis
Wiesnerová, Jana ; Melzochová, Jitka (advisor) ; Kovanda, Lukáš (referee)
This thesis analyses effects of various factors on the likelihood of charity contribution using probit models, focusing on donations only. The main data source was the MML-TGI database 2012 developed by Median, s.r.o. In this work, two models are built using different explanatory variables. Both models support the hypothesis of the thesis that higher probability of participation in the donation is expected from women. The first model was able to demonstrate the influence of age and educational attainment on the likelihood of financial donations paid to charities. The highest increase in the probability was recorded for ages 40-45 years and graduates. In the second model, further dependence of donation on political orientation, net monthly income and marital status was tested. It has been proven that we can expect the highest probability for married women and married men, as well as the right-wing oriented people and people with an income between CZK 15,001 to CZK 30,000 per month.
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The Cobbler, Miller´s dance and the Plough. Motifs of work and crafts in Czech folk dances
Fričová, Marie ; GREMLICOVÁ, Dorota (advisor) ; STAVĚLOVÁ, Daniela (referee)
The dissertation on The Cobbler (Švec,) Miller´s dance (Mlynářská) and the Plough (Ruchadlo). Motifs of work and crafts in Czech folk dances deals with the theme of folk dances pertaining to motifs of work and crafts, namely dances with movements depicting and imitating work movements. It is based on the detailed study of records and descriptions of Czech folk dances in collections, manuals of social dances and other sources.The variations of dances appearing repeatedly in the sources, were compared. The study revealed three principal ways of how the work motif is employed: in the songs' lyrics; the dancers' movements resemble a certain activity ; the work process is imitated intentionally. It became evident that there is a connection between the incidence of these dances and the social and political context of the period.
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Film Music of Dmitrij Shostakovich
Vavrušová, Andrea ; KASÍK, Martin (advisor) ; BILINSKÁ, Kvitoslava (referee)
The topic of my bachelor thesis is to introduce film music of Dmitrij Shostakovich, to study some of the major compositions, which are partly analyzed, but without any concrete example.
My goal is to bring the reader closer to the way the composer dealt with this particular kind of music, which is of no lesser quality to his standart repertoire.
I managed to illustrate political situation of given time period and conditions in which the works were composed, eventually edited.
An the end I would like to recommend some of the recordings with great interpretation of film music of Dmitri Shostakovich.
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The progress of self-regulation of journalism in slovakia after 1989 with special emphasis on slovak journalist syndicate's role
Šafránek, Ondřej ; Moravec, Václav (advisor) ; Chaloupková, Helena (referee)
This work describes the evolution of journalistic self-regulatory environment in the Slovak Republic since 1989 and records all the important elements that influence this process and systematically organize them. These elements are primarily a press council, codes of ethics as a normative-ethical elements, educational system of Slovak journalists and members of the journalistic community institutionalization of professional organizations. The institutionalization as an essential element of professional autonomy implies an emphasis on detailed description of the Slovak Syndicate of Journalists as the largest and most influential journalist organization in the Slovak Republic. The main objective was to describe the self-regulatory structure of the media landscape during one generation replacement, that has undergone a sudden change in political environment. Implementation of the capture of this particular development process is based on media- generated theoretical framework, which was created as interconnection of views of leading experts of mass media theory, media ethics and law.
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Potentional Aproaches to Solve the Adverse Social Situations of Single Mother in Shelter
KLÍMOVÁ, Jana
Theoretical part is concerned with principles of the recent social politics focusing on support of individuals threatened from social isolation. In this case we deal with single mothers with children that lost housing due to unfortunate social circumstances. One solution is that social services intervention may provide special housing option. An example is shown from Pribram town, where a complete list of services is described in detail. Such list includes internal housing rules imposed on occupants. More importantly this example shows methods of interaction with occupants while building specific plans that match occupants? rights and goals. Practical part deals with evaluation of success of this housing service that includes evaluation of recordings with possible requests and/or suggestions based on communication between service personnel and selected occupants. The main emphasis here is identification of system weaknesses and overall improvement of this system. Methods: Communication, relevant documents? research, relevant observations.
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European Security at the Beginning of the Twenty First Century: At the Crossroads of the US and Russian Foreign Policies
Jović, Damjan ; Aslan, Emil (advisor) ; Střítecký, Vít (referee)
Bibliographic record JOVIC, Damjan. European Security at the Beginning o f the Tw'enty First Century: At the Crossroads of the US and Russian Foreign Policies. Prague: Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of International Studies, 2009. 69 p. Supervisor Doc. PhDr. Jiri Vykoukal, CS. Annotation The aim of this paper is to provide a clear view of the current conflict of the United States' and Russia's geopolitical and geostrategic interests in Europe. Furthermore, the author will try - by addressing the most relevant problems - to identify alternative scenarios that may result from this conflict in the near future. At the same time the author is advocating the point that tensions in relations between the US and Russia will not improve any time soon because of fundamentally confronted interests as well as because of the influence of realist logic that dominates the political spectrum on both sides. The author argues that the basis of the new security arrangement in Europe can emerge from the tightening of Russia-Germany relations (especially in the sphere of energy security) and more independent EU policies in the sphere of military affairs. This paper does not aim to address so called "new" and "asymmetrical" threats to national and international security (e.g. terrorism, immigration,...
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Journey of a Hero: The Treatment of Mythology in the Work of William Butler Yeats
Vošahlíková, Martina ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Grmela, Josef (referee)
The thesis deals primarily with the influence of mythology in the work of William Butler Yeats and particularly focuses on his depiction of the ancient Celtic warrior Cuchulainn. The work briefly introduces the background of Irish mythology and its recordings; however the main interest lies in the interpretation of the myth by the Irish literary movement represented by W.B. Yeats and its contribution to the constitution of Ireland's national identity. The literary portrayal is contrasted with the way the hero Cuchualinn was recalled by the political leaders of the Irish revolution to illustrate the process of national symbols' formation. The challenge of the resulting establishment exemplified by the work of Mary T. Condren in the final part of the thesis points out to the opportunity of intentional selection of such symbols and opens the discussion of art's authority and influence.
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Grice's Cooperative Principle in Relation to Leech's Politeness Principle
Belingerová, Tereza ; Pacovská, Jasňa (advisor) ; Adam, Robert (referee)
Grice's Cooperative principle in Relation to Leech's Politeness Principle Abstract: The purpose of this work is to confront the theoretical knowledge of the cooperative principle of H. P. Grice and the politeness principle of G. N. Leech with practical examples from the interviews of various communication situations. The work includes characteristic of both prinicples based od review of the literature and is issumpplemented by expert commentaries. Material for practical work contains excerpts from recordings of conversations in private and public situations. Subsequent analysis of records shows tendencies which normally appear in accepting and not accepting cooperative and politeness principle. The survey results showed a high level of violation of both mentioned principles. Key words: illocutionary act, implicature, cooperative principle, pragmatics, politeness principle, strategies of verbal communication
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Czechoslovakian politics of foreign affairs in 1945-1950
Kadlec, Petr ; Cuhra, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee)
The aim of this magisterial work is to map the development of of Czechoslovak diplomacy between the yars 1945 -1950 in the context of post - war political events. It wans to contextualize the continuity and discontiunity of Czechoslovak foreing policy before and after the Second Word War. This work also tries to record the changes of Czechoslovak foreing policy by describing the stuff cuts in the year 1948 when the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia came into power.
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