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Feminization of agentive nouns in present-day French
Rytinová, Aneta ; Štichauer, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Loucká, Hana (referee)
(in English) The major aim of the thesis is to investigate the different ways of making feminine equivalents to masculine names of professions, titles and ranks based on the data acquired from French and Canadian press archives. Furthermore, the study explores the history of certain frequent feminine forms to analyse the evolutionary changes and, in particular, presents the view of the French-speaking public on this matter. The data collected from the press were compared to the hypothesis and consequently the most occurring feminine forms were selected. In addition, the possible factors causing or preventing the feminization of names are examined in this study. The objective of the questionnaire is to analyse responses depending on the age, gender, and origin of the tested subjects, and to provide an overview of the current trends.
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Linguistic tools in French political discourse.
Daňková, Julie ; Loucká, Hana (advisor) ; Slabochová, Dana (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the knowledge of linguistic tools typical for French political discourse. The thesis is based on an analysis of selected political speeches of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy. It tries to capture how a change in a specific political situation of a particular author can affect communicative strategies, discursive practices, and then select the linguistic tools due to the addressee in a particular communicative situation and the communicative intention. The first part of the thesis is focused on the rhetoric and stylistics, which contribute to the typological definition of texts falling within the French political discourse. The second part is based on an analysis of three essential political speeches Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Current girl's and women's magazines from the linguistic point of view
Hliňáková, Kristýna ; Palkosková, Olga (advisor) ; Chejnová, Pavla (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the analysis of the overall number of six selected magazines from the linguistic point of view, from which three magazines are for girls (except for the magazine Bravo whose target group includes also boys) and three for women. First, each title is introduced - the introduction covers such information as periodicity, target group, circulation and also thematic orientation of corresponding magazines. After the introduction come individual analyses of the magazines. At the end of the thesis the author pays attention to phenomena which are typical for magazines of that kind or which appear throughout all selected magazines. The author applied an interdisciplinary point of view because it is not possible to abstract away from philosophical and psychological linguistic disciplines (semantics, psycholinguistics, and pragmatics). The work puts special emphasis on the lexical level but it does not avoid morphological and stylistic phenomena. The syntactic level is dealt with representatively in one girl's and one women's magazine because the syntactic level of other magazines does not differ much from what has been written within the chosen titles. Except for the linguistic levels, the verbal and non-verbal communication on title pages have also been taken into consideration. In the...
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Stylistické kvalifikátory v Akademickém slovníku současné češtiny
Lišková, Michaela
Text se zabývá stylistickými kvalifikátory v Akademickém slovníku současné češtiny. Představuje jejich koncepční repertoár: 1. stylistické kvalifikátory v užším smyslu (kolokviální výraz, knižní výraz, slangový a profesionální výraz ad.), 2. kvalifikátory označující expresivitu a emocionalitu (hanlivý výraz, vulgární výraz, zjemnělý výraz, dětský výraz ad.), 3. časové kvalifikátory (historismus, zastaralý výraz), 4. teritoriální kvalifikátory (regionalismus, dialektismus) a konečně 5. frekvenční kvalifikátor (řidší výraz). Zvolené kvalifikátory navazují na českou lexikografickou tradici a dílčím způsobem ji modifikují.
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Vocabulary of a Game Mölkky
Červ, Petr ; Janovec, Ladislav (advisor) ; Vlčková, Jana (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the vocabulary of a game mölkky. The first part defines the basic terms and definitions. The next part describes the game of mölkky, its rules, history and present. The main part of the thesis is a selection of the most used words and phrases in the field of mölkky. Selected terms are analyzed in terms of content and form.
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Paths to a Dictionary of Early Modern Czech
Nejedlý, Petr
Existing diachronic dictionaries record the Old Czech lexicon (from the period 1300–1500 approximately) quite well. Despite this fact, a dictionary of Middle Czech (1500–1780) is still missing. For such a type of dictionary, it will be necessary to gather representative material capturing characteristic features of its age, i.e. the increase in general literacy enabled by gradual development of the school system and the discovery of book-printing and, in addition, the Renaissance/humanistic worldview. The material will inevitably show elements of discontinuity with the previous phase of the language. In order to express all the mentioned qualities of the lexicon, there is a need to gather c 120–140 thousand lexemes, and, even in such a case, we have to take a certain percentage of words into account, which will not be recorded in the final database. The systemic description of the period lexicon will only be misrepresented at the very minimum.
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Effect of Election Preferences on the Stock Prices
Efros, Ganna ; Kočenda, Evžen (advisor) ; Schwarz, Jiří (referee)
There exist a lot of empirical researches, that examine what factors effect the stock market volatility. The concept of investor sentiment is quite popular and is frequently discussed. However, there does not exist any research which would study the relation between the change in election preferences during the presidential campaigns and stock market volatility. The present thesis explores the effect of political sentiment on United States and French models. Here, we construct the model, which examines the effect of change in election preferences on the volatility. The results suggest, that change in election preferences does not affect the stock market volatility during the presidential campaign. Thus, its inclusion to the model does not increase the prediction power.
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News Feed Classifications to Improve Volatility Predictions
Pogodina, Ksenia ; Šopov, Boril (advisor) ; Červinka, Michal (referee)
This thesis analyzes various text classification techniques in order to assess whether the knowledge of published news articles about selected companies can improve its' stock return volatility modelling and forecasting. We examine the content of the textual news releases and derive the news sentiment (po larity and strength) employing three different approaches: supervised machine learning Naive Bayes algorithm, lexicon-based as a representative of linguistic approach and hybrid Naive Bayes. In hybrid Naive Bayes we consider only the words contained in the specific lexicon rather than whole set of words from the article. For the lexicon-based approach we used independently two lexicons one with binary another with multiclass labels. The training set for the Naive Bayes was labeled by the author. When comparing the classifiers from the machine learning approach we can conclude that all of them performed similarly with a slight advantage of the hybrid Naive Bayes combined with multiclass lexicon. The resulting quantitative data in form of sentiment scores will be then incorpo rated into GARCH volatility modelling. The findings suggest that information contained in news feeds does bring an additional explanatory power to tradi tional GARCH model and is able to improve it's forecast. On the...
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