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A portrait of a journalist throughout the comic book production
Suchá, Helena ; Kruml, Milan (advisor) ; Jirák, Jan (referee)
The thesis A Portrait of a Journalist throughout the Comic Book Production deals with comics as a medium with a potential to create certain ideas about society. The aim of this thesis is to define typology of fictional journalists in comic books and to answer the question whether these comic images form stereotypes about journalistic profession. The thesis is divided into three parts: theoretical, historical and analytical. In the first part the author deals with the theoretical definition of terms used in the field of comics and media studies, which is closely related to the concept of the thesis (comics, journalist, stereotypes, interpretation). The second chapter summarizes the historical development of a comic's production on each continent. Special attention is devoted to a distinctive formation of the comic series in the Czech environment. Based on the previous research the author analyzes the comic book characters of journalists in the main part of the thesis. These are divided into categories according to the nature of the characters, gender differences and genres. The outcome of the performed analysis is a summary of the findings and the resulting conclusions. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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A stylistic comparison of two modern translations of biblical text from the viewpoint of reception by present-day readers
Vlčková, Barbora ; Dušková, Libuše (advisor) ; Popelíková, Jiřina (referee)
The present thesis deals with two present-day English translations of the Bible - New American Standard Bible, which represents a conservative biblical translation, and Good News Bible, a more liberal translation, written in a way to be readable and accessible to the modern reader. The aim of the thesis is to analyze the two translations in terms of style, focusing on the syntactic and lexical levels. The research is based on a sample of 100 corresponding biblical verses drawn from each of the translations (altogether 200 verses), representing five different narrative parts of the Bible. The analysis of the lexical level is a qualitative one, comparing the nature of the vocabulary used in the two translations; the syntactic level is examined both qualitatively and quantitatively. The thesis attempts not only to describe the findings but also account for them, where possible, in terms of reader reception.
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Change in values in children's literature from the renaissance to the present
Popková, Markéta ; Blažková, Miloslava (advisor) ; Hogenová, Anna (referee)
Diplomová práce se zabývá proměnou hodnot v dětské literatuře od obrození k dnešku. Na začátku práce se pojednává o problematice hodnot a o významu dětské literatury pro rozvoj morálního vědomí žáků. Dále se práce zabývá proměnou hodnotové orientace ve společnosti v průběhu sledovaného období. V rámci interpretace děl dětské literatury, která byla dobově nejvýznamnější či nejčtenější, je ukázáno, jak se měnil pohled na morální normy a hodnoty v literatuře pro děti a mládež. V závěru práce jsou porovnány hodnotové rámce napříč zmíněnými tituly s přihlédnutím k subjektivnímu pohledu autora i hodnotové orientaci společnosti. Z výsledků práce jsou pak vyvozeny didaktické závěry, které mohou posloužit jako pomůcka učitelům při výuce občanské výchovy. Abstract The diploma thesis deals with the change of values in children's literature. At the beginning of the thesis the values and the importace of children's literature for pupil's moral development are being discussed. Further on the study is aimed to discuss the change of the oreintation of social values throughout the examined peroids. Within the interpretation of different works of Children's literature (which were the bestsellers or the most frequently read books) is demonstrated how the view of moral codes and values in children's literature has...
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Kramerius' Newspapers in the Years 1790 - 1793 and Their Role in Shaping the Czech National Identity
Boušová, Irena ; Švantner, Martin (advisor) ; Nešpor, Zdeněk (referee)
This thesis deals with problematic of public space at the edge of modernity in Kramerius newspapers in Czech. The first part gatheres together the results from existing research literature, discusses the question of the relationship between modernity and postmodernity that leads to the theoretical and methodological background of authors approach. The second part deals with the influences that shape the final content of Kramerius' Newspapers. Newspapers are seen as part of a broader discursive network. It is also the reader, who gets a word in a process of establishing the final content. Among other, this chapter focuses on the issue of creating a community of readers and the public sphere in Bohemia in the late 18th century as a preconditon for ethnic or even the national identity. The last part concentrates on specific topics in Kramerius' Newspapers, the reporting and processing techniques, which aim is to shape the reader and his view on observed events. The work ends with a statement that Kramerius' Newspapers by the content as well as form created a wider readership community, which maintained a certain social ties and also shared a certain form of the public sphere. However, the analysis of themes and data processing techniques revealed the boundaries of this community. The community can not...
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Reading Comprehension of Non-native Czech Language Speakers
Lundáková, Kateřina ; Hrdlička, Milan (advisor) ; Šebesta, Karel (referee)
(in English) This thesis discusses the methodology of teaching reading comprehension and using text in the process of teaching Czech for foreigners. It is aimed at developing an approach to teaching reading skills in language classes on the basis of contemporary literature on the subject and in offering structured exercises for utililizing this approach. The theoretical section of this thesis offers a complex analysis of the topic, approaches to evaluating text and developing reading competence in the process of teaching. The practical chapter Cvičení a aktivity (Exercises and Activities) illustrates, through example exercises and activities, how to teach particular aspects of reading competence on the basis of types of reading and reading strategies described in the theoretical and methodological framework of the thesis.
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Development of readership through poetry in primary school
Pokorná, Anna ; Hausenblas, Ondřej (advisor) ; Klumparová, Štěpánka (referee)
The goal of this Master's thesis was to support the development of the practice of reading and literacy especially of students of the lower primary school by my own and verified methods. I have observed the development of the children's relationship to reading and their reading skill as long as there was focus on reading and further activity with poems in class in lower primary school. I have also observed the extent, to which is reading of poems and activities related to it supported by reading books, how students work with the text and what they learn by this work. My thesis has among other activities focused on the necessity and contribution of children's recital a dramatization of poetry. I have worked with children from 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5thgrades of elementary school and also from the 1st grade of 8-year high school, within the scope of literature class, a so-called reading class, within the scope of literary - dramatical branch of art elementary school and drama in education. On the basis of this thesis I can state that working with poetry has significance for a discovery or an establishment of a relationship to reading and understanding of a text for students of the afore mentioned classes. The children have gained an experience with methods, leading to the mentioned objectives; they have...
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Use of social networks in improving communication with the readershiip on examle of IHNED.cz
Němečková, Hana ; Čermák, Miloš (advisor) ; Trunečka, Ondřej (referee)
Social network sites (and new media in general) transform the relationship between professional media organizations and their audiences. My bachelor thesis "Use of social networks in improving communication with the readership on example of IHNED.cz" focuses on how the media use pages or accounts on social network websites Facebook and Twitter in order to communicate with their readership in real time. In the first, theoretical, part, I define the notion of social networks and describe the history and functioning of the most widespread social network sites, with particular emphasis on Facebook and Twitter. The basis of the thesis also touches on the description of the possibilities and mechanisms of usage of social network sites in terms of the news media. In the research segment of the thesis I examine the activity of the Czech news server IHNED.cz on social network sites Facebook and Twitter by means of quantitative analysis. The intention is to detect what content is offered to fans (followers) of IHNED.cz, whether it evokes a response in them and to what extent IHNED.cz is communicating with its readers through social network sites. The thesis also contains the results of a questionnaire among four hundred fans (followers) of IHNED.cz on Twitter and Facebook. The aim was to find out how and...
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