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British VS. American English – A comparative study
Ohrazda, David ; Šťastná, Dagmar (referee) ; Sedláček, Pavel (advisor)
Tato bakalářská práce je zaměřena na porovnání rozdílů Britské a Americké angličtiny, dvou nejrozšířenějších variací anglického jazyka, který je po celém světě využíván ať už jako mateřský jazyk nebo vyučovaný druhý jazyk pro snazší mezinárodní komunikaci. Práce se stručně zabývá historií jazyka a následně rozebírá rozdíly v oblastech gramatiky, výslovnosti a slovníku s příklady dané problematiky. Práce rovněž pojednává o kulturních vlivech, které ovlivnily vývoj jazyka. Pro práci jsem použil knižní a internetové zdroje. Hlavním cílem bakalářské práce je poskytnout a ukázat jakým způsobem se jeden jazyk může lišit na základě odlišné národnosti.
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British VS. American English – A comparative study
Ohrazda, David ; Šťastná, Dagmar (referee) ; Sedláček, Pavel (advisor)
Tato bakalářská práce je zaměřena na porovnání rozdílů Britské a Americké angličtiny, dvou nejrozšířenějších variací anglického jazyka, který je po celém světě využíván ať už jako mateřský jazyk nebo vyučovaný druhý jazyk pro snazší mezinárodní komunikaci. Práce se stručně zabývá historií jazyka a následně rozebírá rozdíly v oblastech gramatiky, výslovnosti a slovníku s příklady dané problematiky. Práce rovněž pojednává o kulturních vlivech, které ovlivnily vývoj jazyka. Pro práci jsem použil knižní a internetové zdroje. Hlavním cílem bakalářské práce je poskytnout a ukázat jakým způsobem se jeden jazyk může lišit na základě odlišné národnosti.
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Teaching Differences between British and American English in Lower-secondary EFL Classes
Stelzerová, Pavlína ; Müller Dočkalová, Barbora (advisor) ; Matuchová, Klára (referee)
Presented thesis deals with teaching differences between British and American English. Its aim is to suggest a suitable way of teaching selected vocabulary differences between these two English varieties in EFL classes. The theoretical part of the presented thesis summarizes the knowledge background gained by studying relevant researches and professional publications. On that study the author's original teaching materials are based. The practical part consists of a brief research; original materials were used in five EFL classes, and consequently their efficiency and utility was examined. The main goal of this thesis is to propose this topic as a kind of useful enrichment of English lessons and to examine the way it could be included in a lesson plan without affecting it or burdening teachers with an extra preparation. Key words: American English, British English, differences, teaching EFL classes
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American and British Dialectal Synonyms in Selected Lexical Fields
Kožíšek, David ; Matuchová, Klára (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with lexical differences between contemporary American and British English. The thesis presents an outline of historical and sociolinguistic factors which affected the development of American English. It includes a thematic mini-dictionary of 224 commonly used British and American dialectal synonyms. With regard to the words' etymological origin, the thesis attempts to characterize the structure of selected lexical fields. The practical part presents an experiment which reflects on how Czech students of the English language incorporate individual dialectal synonyms into their active vocabulary.
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The adverbs "absolutely", "completely" and "totally" in contemporary American soap operas
Gižová, Veronika ; Malá, Markéta (advisor) ; Popelíková, Jiřina (referee)
This thesis is concerned with the functions of adverbs absolutely, completely and totally. These adverbs are generally employed as adverbials denoting degree or intensifiers with gradable adjectives and adverbs. Their use is most frequent in informal spoken language due to their ability to occur as an emphatic agreement in the form of ellipsis. The distribution of the selected adverbs differs in inspected functions - the secondary sources claim the adverb totally has been used increasingly as an elliptical agreement. The results furthermore demonstrate their varying collocations and constructions in which they occur. The adverbs are examined on the corpus of contemporary American soap opera Friends whose language closely resembles informal dialogue. A combination of corpus analysis methods are employed in order to determine the status of the syntactic constructions containing absolutely, completely and totally. The analysis of 120 examples has proven that while absolutely and completely both occur primarily in one function, different for each adverb,, totally may be used in a variety of detected functions resulting in semantic blends.
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A lexical analysis of the American adaptation of Harry Potter
DEMJANIČOVÁ, Tereza
The aim of the thesis is to analyse the lexical differences which occurred in the American version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The theoretical part introduces notions and concepts crucial for the analysis such as characteristics of American English, basics of intralingual translation, the problem of meaning and concepts. The analytical part then uses these findings to analyse the reason for translation of the words and the method which was used during the translation.
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Awareness and Knowledge of Lexical and Spelling Differences Between British and American English Among Czech Students of English
Nováková, Alena ; Matuchová, Klára (advisor) ; Bojarová, Marie (referee)
This thesis is concerned with lexical and spelling differences between British and American English. The theoretical part provides an overview of the history and development of those differences, including a list of selected high frequency items. It also focuses on the role of American culture in the world and its impact on the English language. The practical part is based on a survey and attempts to discover whether Czech upper secondary students are aware of British and American English and the differences between them, with special attention to the media dominated by American English and their influence on students' language competence. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Teaching Differences between British and American English in Lower-secondary EFL Classes
Stelzerová, Pavlína ; Müller Dočkalová, Barbora (advisor) ; Matuchová, Klára (referee)
Presented thesis deals with teaching differences between British and American English. Its aim is to suggest a suitable way of teaching selected vocabulary differences between these two English varieties in EFL classes. The theoretical part of the presented thesis summarizes the knowledge background gained by studying relevant researches and professional publications. On that study the author's original teaching materials are based. The practical part consists of a brief research; original materials were used in five EFL classes, and consequently their efficiency and utility was examined. The main goal of this thesis is to propose this topic as a kind of useful enrichment of English lessons and to examine the way it could be included in a lesson plan without affecting it or burdening teachers with an extra preparation. Key words: American English, British English, differences, teaching EFL classes
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The adverbs "absolutely", "completely" and "totally" in contemporary American soap operas
Gižová, Veronika ; Malá, Markéta (advisor) ; Popelíková, Jiřina (referee)
This thesis is concerned with the functions of adverbs absolutely, completely and totally. These adverbs are generally employed as adverbials denoting degree or intensifiers with gradable adjectives and adverbs. Their use is most frequent in informal spoken language due to their ability to occur as an emphatic agreement in the form of ellipsis. The distribution of the selected adverbs differs in inspected functions - the secondary sources claim the adverb totally has been used increasingly as an elliptical agreement. The results furthermore demonstrate their varying collocations and constructions in which they occur. The adverbs are examined on the corpus of contemporary American soap opera Friends whose language closely resembles informal dialogue. A combination of corpus analysis methods are employed in order to determine the status of the syntactic constructions containing absolutely, completely and totally. The analysis of 120 examples has proven that while absolutely and completely both occur primarily in one function, different for each adverb,, totally may be used in a variety of detected functions resulting in semantic blends.
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Subject - Verb Concord and pronominal reference after collective nouns in British and American English
Outratová, Tereza ; Dušková, Libuše (advisor) ; Popelíková, Jiřina (referee)
This thesis is concerned with subject-verb agreement with collective nouns in British and American English. The thesis deals with verbal as well as with pronominal agreement. The first part of the thesis gives theoretical background of concord with collective nouns with respect to differences between the two major varieties of English. The second part of the thesis describes the sampling method by which 4 samples have been excerpted from British National Corpus (representing British English) and Corpus of Contemporary American English (representing American English). Sample 1.containing 25 instances of the collective noun FAMILY and sample 2. containing 25 instances of the collective noun STAFF have been excerpted from BNC. Following the same method, two samples have been excerpted from COCA - sample 3. containing 25 instances of the collective noun FAMILY and sample 4. containing 25 instances of the collective noun STAFF. The analytical part includes description and analysis of individual samples. The samples of British English have shown that the collective noun FAMILY is used in the singular or in the plural depending on whether individual members or the whole group is regarded. On the contrary, the collective noun STAFF occurred more frequently in plural constructions. In American English the...
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