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The language and style of the "Sestra" journal
MUŽÍKOVÁ, Lucie
The aim of this thesis is the analysis of language and style of the Sestra journal. This is a professional monthly journal devoted to nurses and non-medical staff in sanitary departments, it?s published since 1991 and several publishers are already involved in its distribution. Thesis is divided into three parts. The first is a theoretical chapter in which we discuss the functional styles and how they are perceived and named by different stylists. The journal is represented by several styles, some texts go beyond the boundaries of individual styles. The following is a practical part in which we will discuss journal characteristics, self-presentation and also a short presentation of the Zdravotnická pracovnice journal which preceded the Sestra journal. Even the transformation of formal aspects is not omitted ? it concerns both the cover and internal arrangement of the journal. So the journal cover, the editorials and the professional journal sections (annex and the thematic books) and other texts are important journal components. Although the journal changed during the years, the types of texts do not undergo significant changes, only the representation of functional styles is different. Next section of the practical part is focused on analysis on the text level (language and style) of individual functional styles ? it will be the professional, educational, artistic, journalistic, promotional and administrative style. More generally, I want to remark also the linguistic aspects, in terms of phonetics, morphology and lexicology. The last chapter is part of the research based on interviews with health care workers ? readers of the Sestra journal. Even though this is a high quality and a good level journal, their responses and comments can bring some benefits to the journal itself, how to get closer to readers, how to make it more pleasant or how to remove any gaps. In this part of the thesis evaluation of the research and proposals how to change the journal are not missed.
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