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Manifestation of Deflectivization in Contemporary Czech - The Tendency Not to Inflect Some First Names in Connection With Surnames
Kripnerová, Nella ; Sojka, Pavel (advisor) ; Adam, Robert (referee)
This thesis deals with the issue of deflectivization in contemporary Czech, specifically the tendency not to inflect some first names in connection with surnames. The theoretical part focuses on the dynamics of the development of contemporary Czech, explains the concepts of norm and codification, describes variant forms in the language and clarifies the causes of language changes. He then defines a relatively new tendency - deflectivization and gives some specific examples of it. In connection with the non-declension of some names, it clarifies how such names should be inflected. The aim of the practical part is to compare the results of the questionnaire survey, which aims to find out to what extent deflectivization tendencies manifest themselves in the Czech population, with the results reported in the CNK and to evaluate whether or not there is a tendency to inflect these names prevailing. KEYWORDS Development tendencies of contemporary language, variation, language norm, codification, deflectivization, declension, first name, surname
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Standard and non-standard language in printed media communication and its impact on discussions about standard language
Pospíšilová, Martina ; Šoltys, Otakar (advisor) ; Jirák, Jan (referee)
The present Master's thesis analyses language means in printed media with a particular focus on national daily newspapers from the second trimester of 1993. That year, there was an important linguistic conference on standardised Czech and language culture. The analysis examines especially language means that deviate from the standardised norm of the language. The theoretical part discusses key concepts, such as norm and codification or national language and its varieties. The understanding of these terms is critical for the analytical part of the thesis where language means used in printed media are being analysed using quantitative content analysis. The aim of this analysis is to describe their motivation of use and function. The results are then compared with the proceedings of the 1993 conference on standardised Czech and language culture held in Olomouc. The thesis provides a clear view on how the occurrence of non-standardised language means in media influences academic discussion on standardised Czech.
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Differences in Declination of Proper and Common Nouns
Smejkalová, Kamila
Paper describes differences between declination of proper and common nouns. The paper compares the linguistic point of view with that of non-professional users and shows linguistic and non-linguistic arguments used by non-professional users to support their opinions. The topic is illustrated by the types of nouns, that are morfologically problematic from the point of view of the general public and linguists using the database of the enquiries cunsulted with the Language Consulting Centre.
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Use of Vulgarisms in Journalism Texts
Bohatová, Hana ; Šotolová, Jovanka (advisor) ; Brunel, Aude (referee)
The present master's thesis tackles the position of vulgarisms within the system of language as used in texts published in Czech and French weekly opinion magazines. The thesis takes a theoretic and empiric approach, the first part dealing with the definition of the term of vulgarism in Czech and French stylistics and the delimitation of its role in the style of journalistic texts. The second part of the thesis describes the practical approach of Czech and French weeklies to vulgarisms in their texts based on a survey among editing staff of the major publishing houses both in France and in the Czech Republic. The outcomes of the survey were compared to the analysis results conveyed on a corpus built out of texts published in Le Point and Respekt weeklies. Based on the contrastive analysis of vulgarisms used in Czech and French language corpus, following the critical criteria as outlined in the first part of the thesis, several recommendations are made about French-Czech translations of vulgarisms in journalistic texts. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Korean in internet communication
Uhlířová, Eliška ; Horák, Tomáš (advisor) ; Mazaná, Vladislava (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze Korean internet communication language (ICL). The new language variety, which is a product of online communication and differs from both writing and speech as traditionally understood. In the first part, I illustrate the development of the internet and outset of notable web domains in South Korea. I also present the demographics of Korean netizens and data related to the internet usage. In the second part, I depict the salient linguistic characteristics of Korean internet communication language. I define ICL as a type of new slang - written slang and I also compare this sociolect with traits of spoken and written language. Lastly, I explain various factors, whose impact led to the outbreak of this recent language form. In the third part, I scrutinize distinctive features of Korean ICL, which diverges from standard language form in syntactic, orthographic, morphological, lexical and discursive perspectives. The examination is based mainly on written data collected from casual online situations. In the final section, I explore the profound influence of ICL on people's everyday communication. In other words, I portray the evidence of how this contemporary slang is affecting other language varieties in offline situations.
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Standard and non-standard language in printed media communication and its impact on discussions about standard language
Pospíšilová, Martina ; Šoltys, Otakar (advisor) ; Jirák, Jan (referee)
The present Master's thesis analyses language means in printed media with a particular focus on national daily newspapers from the second trimester of 1993. That year, there was an important linguistic conference on standardised Czech and language culture. The analysis examines especially language means that deviate from the standardised norm of the language. The theoretical part discusses key concepts, such as norm and codification or national language and its varieties. The understanding of these terms is critical for the analytical part of the thesis where language means used in printed media are being analysed using quantitative content analysis. The aim of this analysis is to describe their motivation of use and function. The results are then compared with the proceedings of the 1993 conference on standardised Czech and language culture held in Olomouc. The thesis provides a clear view on how the occurrence of non-standardised language means in media influences academic discussion on standardised Czech.
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Language Norm and Possible (Empirical) Methods How to Investigate It
Beneš, Martin
In its first part, this paper postulates the need for empirical research in the field of the (Czech) theory of language cultivation. Following the paper written by J. Homoláč and I. Nebeská (2000) it is assumed (on the methodological level) that language users intuitively link linguistic means with the so-called stylistic indices, e.g. with certain characteristic that the language user sense based on the context in which the particular linguistic means are perceived as appropriate. In the second part, this paper outlines possible experimental methods that could be used for investigating the speakers' actual links between particular linguistic means and their stylistic indices. The main focus is the Implicit Association Test.
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