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Human Body in the Czech Paremiology: An Ethnolinguistic Study
Kovařík, Tadeáš ; Vaňková, Irena (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
The submitted Master's thesis deals with the linguistic picture of the human body and its parts in proverbs, which are listed in Václav Flajšhans's dictionary Česká přísloví (Czech proverbs). The material is processed using approaches and methodological tools of cognitive linguistics and ethnolinguistics. First of all the theoretical and methodological framework of the thesis is outlined, these are in particular approaches of cognitive linguistics and ethnolinguistics to language and the theory of linguistic picture of the world. These methods are then used to analyse the linguistic picture of human body and its parts in Czech, as arises from proverbs. Then the research paremiological context is defined and possible approaches to proverbs are characterized. The proverb is then defined using specialized literature. Individual chapters that focus on parts of human body present meanings of somatic idioms that are explained with help of monolingual dictionaries. Also there are lists of the most common collocations and idioms in which these somatic idioms occur. The linguistic picture of the human body and its parts in the Czech language picture of the world is then worked out on the basis of the analysed proverbs. These proverbs are used to present linguistic pictures of the sense of sight and hearing...
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Competing word-formation suffixes for the indication of female gender in professions
Kožuriková, Daniela ; Bozděchová, Ivana (advisor) ; Mareš, Petr (referee)
The bachelor thesis Competing word-formation suffixes for the indication of female gender in professions is devided into two parts. The first part summarizes findings provided by linguistic literature on this topic. Suffixes used most frequently are also discussed. The second part provides results of practical research during which the names of feminine professions, found in the dictionary Nová slova v češtině 1 a 2, were entered in the form of lemmas into the corpuses SYN 2000 and SYN 2005, and their frequency was investigated. In the end of the thesis there is a practical dictionary in which meanings of some lesser known proffesions designating substantives are explained.
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The development of Andrej Babiš's Czech from a second-language acquisition viewpoint
Benešovský, Vít ; Valková, Jarmila (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
This thesis deals with the develompent of Andrej Babiš's Czech. Babiš is a Slovak politician and businessman, who lives in the Czech Republic and whose speeches and media appearances have been part of Czech public discourse for the past few years. The aim of this thesis is to describe how Babiš's language changes over time and how Slovak interference influences it. Hypotheses focus on the number of errors in Babiš's speech, the specific types of errors he makes and the interlingual / intralingual error ratio. The theoretical part of the thesis introduces basic second-language acquisition terminology, which is later used in the practical part. The practical part consists mainly of an error analysis of recordings of interviews with Babiš. Lexical, syntactic, morphological, phonetic, phonological and other differences between Czech and Slovak, which are the source of negative language transfer in Babiš's Czech, are also described. The conclusion shows how parameters of the politician's speech changed over six years and offers an explanation of the change.
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Opposition "homo - animal" in language. Contribution to the Czech linguistic picture of the world
Šťastná, Lucie ; Vaňková, Irena (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
This diploma thesis aims to contribute to the research of the Czech language picture of the world. It is based on fundamental theoretical and methodological resources of cognitive and cultural linguistics and focuses on the opposition of "man - animal", or "human - animal", in the Czech language, aiming to illustrate the way in which zooappellatives (animal names) relate to the reality of the human world. The most extensive part of the thesis is based mainly on an analysis of Czech dictionary material (etymological, reference, synonym and phraseological dictionaries), as well as comparing the scientific (biological) classification of animals to the categorization in natural language. In regard to the category ANIMAL, the thesis establishes four basic domains constituting the category's conceptual model (framework): "the place where the animal lives", "physical traits", "the animal's behaviour" and "relation to man". The thesis also includes questionnaire-based research that focuses on analysing the way in which speakers of the Czech language understand the category ANIMAL, and attempts to determine whether they regard some animals as more protypical than others.
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The Dog in Linguistic Picture of the World in Czech
Prokšová, Hana ; Vaňková, Irena (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
I. Abstract This paper is based on the theoretical principes of the Polish ethnolinguistic works introduced in the first part of this paper. We pay special attention to the theory of anthropocentrism of a natural language. The main focus of this theory is the differentiation between "one's own" and "human" on one side and "someone else's" and "non-human"on the other in a cognitive comprehension of the world. We further apply the anthropocentric approach to outline the conceptualization of domestic animals in the Czech language. The second part of the text deals with the expression pes (‚dog') in Czech and its derivatives, their position within the lexical system, their semantics, connotations and the stereotypes associated with them. The conclusion presents a cognitive definition of the concept pes (‚dog') in Czech. The definition builds upon the entry structure of the Polish Dictionary of Folk Stereotypes and Symbols.
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Neologisms motivated by names of political parties and movements
Kotková, Kateřina ; Martínek, František (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
This thesis describes new names of political parties and movements in Czech. The first part will summarize findings from the relevant literature. Material basis for the paper will be the database NEOMAT (ÚJČ AV ČR), on-line archive of media texts Newton Mediasearch, ČNK corpuses, available dictionaries and primary texts. Neologisms will be described according to word formation types. One part of this thesis will also be a comparison of the material of the thesis with material of selected dictionaries. Results will be summarized in a clear conclusion. Work will be in accordance with bibliographic standards. In the appendix of the thesis will be table of discovered words together with the number of their occurrences. Keywords: lexical enrichment, neologism, word formation type, word formation process, political party
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The Style of Arnošt Goldflam's Plays
Denková, Magdaléna ; Mareš, Petr (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
This thesis presents Arnošt Goldflam as playwright with a peculiar position in the Czech culture. It summarizes basic knowledge about nature and style of dramatic texts and, on the basic of this knowledge, deals with stylistic and linguistic analysis of the part of the author's works which are original dramatic texts. It's based on the corpus of twelve games, that represent this kind of his creative work from the 80's until recently. The objective of the thesis is to determine the basic characteristics and language instruments involved in the structure and meaning of each game. Based on the analysis of instruments stylish construction of various levels and areas of language it defines the most significant common features stylish of all included texts and also author's progression in the use of language and style formation. Goldflam's theater work is characterized not only by choosing subjects, but also in the way of their language and staging interpretation. Author's creative activity is still undone, the thesis offers a view of only the selected area of his work. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Specific linguistic apects of blogs on the Czech Internet
Černá, Eliška ; Bozděchová, Ivana (advisor) ; Lehečková, Eva (referee)
Work is devoted to a specific type ofinternet communiques - blogs. Specifical1y, tbe characteristics ofthe language side ofblogs on tbe czech internet are ana1ysed. Blogs are initia11y characterized as a whole. In the next section a possible classification af blogs and their operational division into two main groups, that are in other chapters further characterized, are adduced.
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Phraseology in contemporary sports journalism
Fischerová, Simona ; Bozděchová, Ivana (advisor) ; Rejzek, Jiří (referee)
Ihis thesis focuses on presence and description ofphraseology in current sport journalism. The objective is to map different types ofphraseology which appear in contemporary Czech joumals. It describes a frequency anrl the way ofuse af such phenomena. Journals were selected so they represent broadsheets papers, i. e. Lidové noviny, and tabloid papers, i. e. deník Blesk. These periodicals are going to be compared with deník Sport which is the anly newspaper concentrating auly on sport themes. The theoretical part ofthe thesis defines terms phraseology and idiom according to Čennak:'s papers. Next part considers c1assificatioD anrl categorization which is showing up in present grammar books. Analytical part examines found phraseology from the point of different language levels. lt appears that phraseology at present writtenjournalism is not fading. On the contrary its amount is increasing in the new modernized versions. Specific use ofphraseology is in deník Sport. Throughout which is denik Sport trying to extricate from stereotypes typical for sport journalism.
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Aspectual structure of -pad- radix verbal derivates
Jindra, Vojtěch ; Uličný, Oldřich (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
The work is based on a novel approach of associating verbs with various affixes on the basis of similar meanings. Using electronic sources data, the thesis paper captures the system of verbal derivatives of the -pad- radix in 53 entries that comprise their dictionary definition, an analysis of characteristic valence structures and, above all, a large number of examples. More than thousand various records extracted from the Czech National Corpus and the internet may be found in this paper. Verbs with the -pad- radix exist in three aspectual forms - as -nou- suffix perfectives, -a- suffix imperfectives, and -va- suffix secondary imperfectives. Moreover, these forms form combinations with 14 various prefixes (in addition to non-prefix forms and povy- and zprodouble- prefix forms): do-, na-, o-, od-, po-, pro-, pře-, při-, roz-, s-, u-, v-, vy-, za-. As I have shown, certain verbal meanings are characteristic for each of these prefixes; in addition, the positions of some aspectual forms do not have to be realised in the structure.
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