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Discoursive analysis of Czech government communication about COVID-19 in 2020
Rys, Filip ; Hanzal, Jaromír (advisor) ; Křeček, Jan (referee)
Many people criticised the communication of the Czech Government during a pandemic in 2020. This thesis analyses government communication and its interpretation in agenda-setting, securitisation and narrativisation. The thesis also contains an analysis of politicians' interviews in media. The diploma thesis consists of a discursive analysis of the government's press conferences in 2020. On the results of the analysis were conducted, discoursive models. Models are used to define how the government communicated the problem of covid-19. The thesis continues with the analysis of agenda-setting, in which it was clear that the government successfully set its agenda in media. On results of the agenda-setting analysis was conducted securitisation analysis. The analysis shows at least one significant correlation between the government's specific securitisation speech act and how people perceived pandemic threats. The study of politicians' interviews in media showed that politicians hold a consistent communication style even if they were not at official press conferences. Connecting line of government's communication was to minimalise every doubt using a phrase that they did maximum. In every circumstance, they tried to present to the public, that was done everything possible.
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Signs of Propaganda in the normalization TV series Boys and men
Štarman, Ondřej ; Štoll, Martin (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
The diploma thesis examines television production in the 1980s in former Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, specifically the series Boys and men (1988) by director Evžen Sokolovský. In the theoretical part, the reader will learn the propaganda theory and its types. In addition, the concept of discourse and approaches to discourse analysis are introduced. At the end of the theoretical part, the work looks into the context of the series; the concepts of normalization and rebuilding are presented. A theory of a story construction is also briefly described. The work in the practical part aims to reveal the supposedly embedded propaganda messages in the series. The author tries to identify those messages and thus confirm the political assignment of the series (to improve the image of the army in the eyes of the Czechoslovak society). Another aim of the thesis is to describe the means, by which the communication was delivered. The analysis of the series is directly linked to the analysis of media outputs in printed media, namely in Rudé právo and Týdeník ČST, where the author searches for the series-related articles. The aim of this effort is to find a formulation of the political assignment, which would again serve as a proof of its existence. In order to analyze the content of the series and the media...
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Czechoslovakia in the years 1948-1989: How did the ruling party use the language of the formation of the "favorable" reality?
Kološová, Štěpánka ; Váňa, Tomáš (advisor) ; Skalecká, Veronika (referee)
Submitted thesis deals with the question of how was the ruling party was using the language of "favorable" view of reality on the example of the introduction of monetary reform and the cancellation of the ticket system in the year1953. Using the critical discourse analysis of James Paul Gee it examines the twelve selected articles in the journals Rudé právo and Pravda in the period of one week before and two weeks after the introduction of monetary reform. The aim of this Bachelor thesis is to capture how did the Communist Party try to manipulate and influence the attitude of the citizens of Czechoslovakia to monetary reform through the media. The main contribution of this thesis should be a preview of functioning of the media in totalitarian Czechoslovakia and a display of the Communist regime's efforts to influence the media construct reality.
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