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Event representation in pantomime versus linguistic expression
Kadavá, Šárka ; Lehečková, Eva (advisor) ; Šimík, Radek (referee)
The master thesis focuses on the comparison of the representation of events in pantomimic performance on the one hand and in verbal description on the other hand. Building on previous research, it will focus on what aspects of events are performed through pantomime and through verbal description and how this is influenced by various formal and semantic parameters of the situations portrayed (e.g. argument structure of the word, iconicity of the action, motion, etc.). Based on the experiment conducted for this purpose, the thesis analyses which structural and semantic parameters of the selected actions were used or highlighted in which condition. The aim is to describe the most common strategies chosen by the participants in solving the task and their impact on comprehension. The thesis aims to contribute to the understanding of the differences in information encoding in verbal versus non-verbal semiotic modes, and thus enrich the existing research on multimodality, and specifically multimodal research on Czech. Keywords: multimodality, iconicity, event structure, argument structure, intersubjectivity, communicative efficiency
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From Language to Sign: Three Stages of Cognitivism
Kadavá, Šárka ; Švantner, Martin (advisor) ; Marcelli, Miroslav (referee)
This thesis outlines the three phases of cognitivism, which emerged in the first half of the 20th century as a reaction to the anti-mentalist tradition of philosophical thinking (represented by Charles S. Peirce and Charles Morris), and which was made possible in particular by the so- called linguistic turn in science (especially within analytic philosophy), which replaced mental units, regarded as non-scientific, with linguistic units, conceived as reflecting mental states and, moreover, allowing for adequate investigation. The thesis is largely guided by Thomas C. Daddesio's On Minds and Symbols, which is considered to be one of the first explicit attempts to formulate a cognitive-semiotic perspective, and wherein the author traces the previous development of the cognitive paradigm. Thus, first the factors that made the emergence of cognitivism possible are described, followed by an account of its development, which can be divided into two phases, as per Daddesio's model. This paper, however, goes beyond Daddesio's book and establishes a third phase, where cognitivism emerges as a separate field of inquiry within semiotics, i.e., cognitive semiotics. Within this development, the work traces in particular the transformation of the conception of the relationship between language and mind, which is...
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The Metaphors of Socialism within the Canonic Prose Fiction of the 1950s
Kadavá, Šárka ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Šebek, Josef (referee)
Based on Lakoff's theory of conceptual metaphor the thesis provides an insight into how the literature was used performatively to offer resources which illustrate the target domain - concept of socialism/communism and ways of its building-up. The primary texts used as material, were presented as obligatory for gaining of Fučík's badge; this campaign regulates both, reading sources and also the way of understanding of chosen canonical prose and will be seen as an emblematic and forceful instrument of narrative ideologization at that time. The interpretation of the canonical prose and subsequent analysis will be based on brochures made for the Fučík's badge, which will offer the viewpoint of current reader or more precisely candidate of this badge and therefore, the thesis especially looks for the root/conceptual metaphors which this institutionalised interpretation considers to be significant. Key words: socialism, Fučík's badge, root/conceptual metaphor
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