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Phonetic realisation of selected obstruents in Irish English
Rálišová, Diana ; Skarnitzl, Radek (advisor) ; Tichý, Ondřej (referee)
and key words This thesis aims to map the use of /t/, /θ/ and /ð/ allophones in Irish English in comparison to Standard British English and to present the contemporary tendencies in the use of these allophones in the Irish English accent. Similarly, the thesis presents information on new allophones that have not yet been described. The existing research on Standard British English /t/, /θ/ and /ð/ phonemes and on their Irish English allophonic counterparts is summarised in theoretical part; the practical part deals with the research carried out in Limerick, Ireland in spring 2016 where 21 native Irish English speakers were recorded using both reading (a story "The Boy Who Cried Wolf") and spontaneous speech to obtain data. The recordings were then processed using an orthographic transcription and phonetic segmentation, the allophones were labelled in Praat and analysed. The results are presented in practical part, together with their relation to the already existing research on the /t/, /θ/ and /ð/ allophones in Irish English. Key words: Irish English, accent, plosives, fricatives, allophones
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Old English prose adjectives meaning "holy": towards a characterization of a lexical field
Fúsik, Ondřej ; Čermák, Jan (advisor) ; Tichý, Ondřej (referee)
The work attempts to contribute to mapping of the lexical field of HOLINESS in Old English prosaic texts. The lexical field in this work is represented by four adjectives (halig, gebletsod, gesælig, gehalgod) which are chosen from the Thesaurus of Old English from which one - halig is chosen to be analysed in this work. The mapping of this adjective is conducted in the York-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose by identifying morphological and syntactical categories of the adjective (predicative, attributive; both pre-positive and post-positive functions) as well as by the collocational sets (conceptual fields). The results then show the ways in which the adjective differs in named categories in relations to its collocational set. The work is also interdisciplinary as the interpretation of the collocational sets is based both on philological as well as theological bases due to the fact that halig mainly appears in religious texts.
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Old English prose adjectives meaning "holy": towards a characterization of a lexical field
Fúsik, Ondřej ; Čermák, Jan (advisor) ; Tichý, Ondřej (referee)
The work attempts to contribute to mapping of the lexical field of HOLINESS in Old English prosaic texts. The lexical field in this work is represented by four adjectives (halig, gebletsod, gesælig, gehalgod) which are chosen from the Thesaurus of Old English. The mapping is conducted in the York-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose by identifying morphological and syntactical categories of each adjective (predicative, attributive, postpositive functions, comparative and superlative forms; modification by adverbs) as well as the collocational sets (conceptual fields). The results then show the way in which the given adjectives differ in named categories.
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Keywords and Frequent Words of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
Krajcsovicsová, Vladimíra ; Malá, Markéta (advisor) ; Tichý, Ondřej (referee)
This BA thesis aims to perform a corpus-stylistic analysis of J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye. The starting point for this analysis is a list of frequent and key words of Salinger's novel which are generated on the basis of comparison of frequency information in two corpora. The reference corpus consists of five novels published between 1996 and 2014 which share some fundamental similarities with Salinger's novel (i.e. the same target audience, informal language, first person narration). The theoretical part focuses predominantly on the relevant research in the area of corpus stylistics and at the same time, it provides definitions for the basic terms which are applied in the practical part. The methodology then introduces the texts which are employed for the analysis, as well as the software used, along with its main functions. In the analytical part, top hundred keywords are sorted into three groups (proper names, grammatical and lexical words) and they are subject to further examination, focusing predominantly on their collocations and n-grams. This analysis uncovered not only the features of the idiolect of the main hero of Salinger's novel, but also some basic characteristics of teenage language in use. At the same time, this research suggests that some of these characteristics...
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Old English nominal suffixes -el, -els, -incel: a survey in diachrony
Bočková, Renata ; Čermák, Jan (advisor) ; Tichý, Ondřej (referee)
The aim of this paper is to provide detailed characterizations of three Old English nominal suffixes, -el, -els, and -incel, none of which survived to Middle English. Each of the suffixes is given a detailed description of the grammatical and semantic properties of its bases and derivatives, its productivity in Old English, a diachronic overview of the development of the suffix from Proto-Germanic to Early Middle English, including its cognates in other Germanic languages, and presumed causes of its early disappearance. Attention is also paid to the typological framework of the history of English and its effect on the productivity of the suffixes.
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Computer literacy and communication in healthcare facility
Tichý, Ondřej ; Smutný, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Potančok, Martin (referee)
The diploma thesis is focused on the analysis of the level of computer literacy in the EUC Premium medical facility for doctors and nurses. The introduction introduces the definitions of computer and information literacy and their development. The next part is focused on the research of computer literacy of the employees of EUC Premium. Research is based on two methods - ethnographic research and questionnaire research. Based on ethnographic research, it was found that the level of computer literacy in this company was not too high, as confirmed by the questionnaire survey. Research issues have been identified that have shown that the company's smooth running can not be without the physical participation of IT support to solve the problem. Research results show authors recommendations for company leadership that can help increase computer literacy in the target organization.
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Corpus based analysis of the competition of linguistic expressions of Old Norse and Old English origin in the Late Old English and Middle English periods
Schlindenbuchová, Magdalena ; Tichý, Ondřej (advisor) ; Čermák, Jan (referee)
This paper seeks to illustrate the influence of Old Norse on the English lexicon. The theoretical part deals mainly with the socio-historical background and with the invasions of the Old Norse speakers, which brought about the changes in the English language. Furthermore, it discusses the idea of mutual intelligibility of the two languages concerned and it describes the characteristics of the language contact situation, which lasted for about 200 years, during which speakers of Old Norse invaded the British Isles. The aim then is to relate these events and factors to the linguistic changes in historical English caused by the influence of Old Norse. The changes shall be illustrated on the competition of concrete linguistic expressions of Old Norse origin and Old English origin. The research itself focuses on the examination of the competition during the periods of Late Old English and Middle English, and it is carried out in the Old English and Middle English corpora (YCOE, PPCME2). The analysis comprises four words of Old Norse origin and their four Old English equivalents. Key words: historical linguistics, borrowing, language contact, corpus linguistics, Old English, Middle English, Old Norse
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Multilingualism in "A Clockwork Orange" and its translations.
Janák, Petr ; Šaldová, Pavlína (advisor) ; Tichý, Ondřej (referee)
The paper explores intratextual multilingualism in A Clockwork Orange (ACO) by Anthony Burgess, and in two of its translations - into Czech and German. It analyses 180 words from Nadsat - the invented language in ACO - to reveal how lexical creativity is manifested in translation, i.e. whether and how lexical creativity that is present in the original text is changed in the translations. Changes in lexical creativity are linked to normalisation (a translation universal), and to the functions of the invented language. An existing classification of forms and functions of intratextual multilingualism is applied to invented languages and, in particular, to Nadsat. The analysis of Nadsat and its counterparts in the translations is quantitative, and is conducted using the concordancers AntConc and ParaConc. It examines the frequency of Nadsat words, their distribution throughout the text, and the way their meaning is conveyed to the reader. These data are then used in the comparison of Nadsat and the invented languages that replace it in the Czech and the German translations. The analysis shows that in both translations the number of invented lemmas is lower than in the original, and that in the German translation (UO) the number is significantly lower compared to the Czech translation (MP). In total, MP...
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Phrasal compounds in fiction and their translation into Czech
Mitlenerová, Silvie ; Klégr, Aleš (advisor) ; Tichý, Ondřej (referee)
This diploma thesis analyses issues of translation of phrasal compounds from English to Czech language (in fiction). All examples observed have been chosen from the database of fiction texts that is incorporated in the project InterCorp (v. 7). In particular, the thesis deals with phrasal compounds in premodifying position. The corpus analysis of Czech translation shows that phrasal compounds can be categorized in various groups, and there can also be various approaches to translation. These two sets of categories do not always necessarily overlap. The diploma thesis is based on the categorization of the translations; in each category, several examples are selected and commented upon in more detail. In Conclusion, the findings of these subchapters are summed up and the level of translation work is evaluated in general terms. In the final section, few thoughts about general recommendations for translators are formulated as well - can there be any general recommendation? Or is there a "best approach" for each individual case as it was noticeable throughout the paper? Key words: phrasal compounds, translation, corpus analysis, premodifiers
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The voicing contrast in Vietnamese English
Tranová, Lenka ; Skarnitzl, Radek (advisor) ; Tichý, Ondřej (referee)
This thesis deals with the voicing contrast in Vietnamese accented English. The theoretical part introduces the generally accepted phenomena of voicing contrast, and several theories aiming at generalizing the main tendencies in acquiring a second language. The final part of the theoretical background is devoted to Vietnamese and Vietnamese English where we addressed the initial consonants. The methodological section provides information about the informants, recording, and data processing prior to the analysis itself. Furthermore, graphs and tables illustrate the statistical calculations using ANOVA and Tukey's post-hoc tests that identify the aggregate and concrete relations among the measured units. The results of the analysis show that Vietnamese-accented English maintains comparable voicing contrast in its initial stressed plosives as a native English accent does. The average Voice Onset Times values of the lenis stops without prevoicing shows to be slightly higher, while the average values of voiced initial stops prove to be similar or close to similar those produced by American English (AmE) speakers, which we assign to the fact that pre-voicing in Vietnamese exhibits strikingly similar values. The values for fortis initial plosives showed to be higher due to such quality typical for Vietnamese...
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