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Representation of Eastern Europe in videogames: a case study of "Stalker" and "Pathologic"
Malata, Tomáš ; Švelch, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Švelch, Jan (referee)
This master thesis focuses on the exploration of Eastern Europe representation in video games, namely through a case study of two specific titles, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl and Pathologic. Video games are increasingly recognized not only as a form of entertainment, but also as a medium that carries visual and cultural content. Based on their growing popularity and importance, the discussion about the representation of different cultures and peoples in video games is becoming an important topic of study. This thesis sets out to explore how these two selected video games represent and interpret Eastern Europe, and how this representation compares to other media from the region.
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A media discussion about rebuilding the Marian collumn at the Oldtown square in Prague
KLÍMA, Matouš
The aim of the thesis is to analyze the media debate regarding the reconstruction of the Marian Column in Prague's Old Town Square, particularly focusing on its broader political implications. Utilizing methods of critical discourse analysis, primarily the so-called discursive-historical approach (Wodak 2001, Wodak and Reisigl 2009), a comprehensive qualitative analysis of selected texts from two prominent discourse coalitions - proponents of the reconstruction and their opponents - will be conducted. The thesis will concentrate on fundamental discursive strategies (Wodak et al. 2009: 31n) and will describe the dynamics of discourse and its connections to other textual domains. It will also include a detailed analysis of all texts through situational anchoring and its own semantic analysis.
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Structures and themes of Yusuf Idris' short stories
Provazníková, Adéla ; Ondráš, František (advisor) ; Oliverius, Jaroslav (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with the artistic development of the Egyptian writer Yusuf Idris (1927-1991). Based on the study of two short stories collections it describes the changes in his writing from the 1960s to the 1980s. To achieve this goal, the thesis uses the terminology of the theory of fictional worlds developed by Lubomír Doležel, which provides a suitable tool for the characterisation of themes and techniques in Idris' works. Starting from Idris' realistic worlds of the 1950s, the thesis tracks and explains the fundamental change that his writing later underwent. The essential socio-political context is also given. Through detailed textual analysis of selected short stories, the thesis concludes that author's fictional worlds from the 1980s are darker, more self-contained and complicated, despite of some continuity of themes and structural techniques used throughout Idris' work.
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Monument as the materialization of memory in relation to the current generation and the role of the media
Mrázková, Simona ; Köpplová, Barbara (advisor) ; Wolák, Radim (referee)
The thesis "Monument as the materialization of memory in relation to the current generation and the role of the media" is devoted to the analysis of media discourse of contemporary memorials. The discourse of contemporary memorials is represented in the thesis by media coverage in the Czech periodical printed media regarding to two memorials installed in the Czech Republic. The first is a monument of General Patton in Pilsen and the second is a monument of the Czechoslovak RAF aviators in Prague - Klárov. Examined media coverage related to memorial scandal in Deník VLP, Mladá fronta DNES, Lidové noviny, Blesk, Metro, Haló noviny and Právo belong to the years: 2005, 2009, 2010, 2014 and 2015. The form of contemporary memorial discourse was examined with the help of multiple methods including quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis represented by textual and argumentative analysis. Based on the combination of the mentioned methods basic form of the discourse of contemporary memorials was described with the main focus on media communication containing the topic of foreign affairs and the concept of memory. For this purpose, Marshall McLuhan's perspective was used, which describes the media exposure of artistic interpretation, or the concept of memory as described by Pierre Nora. The various...
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Structures and themes of Yusuf Idris' short stories
Provazníková, Adéla ; Ondráš, František (advisor) ; Oliverius, Jaroslav (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with the artistic development of the Egyptian writer Yusuf Idris (1927-1991). Based on the study of two short stories collections it describes the changes in his writing from the 1960s to the 1980s. To achieve this goal, the thesis uses the terminology of the theory of fictional worlds developed by Lubomír Doležel, which provides a suitable tool for the characterisation of themes and techniques in Idris' works. Starting from Idris' realistic worlds of the 1950s, the thesis tracks and explains the fundamental change that his writing later underwent. The essential socio-political context is also given. Through detailed textual analysis of selected short stories, the thesis concludes that author's fictional worlds from the 1980s are darker, more self-contained and complicated, despite of some continuity of themes and structural techniques used throughout Idris' work.
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The Christian Spirituality in the Modern Egyptian Prose
Rumpl, Jakub ; Ondráš, František (advisor) ; Bielický, Viktor (referee)
This bachelor's thesis is dedicated to understanding of themes of the Christian spirituality and the Coptic identity in the novels H̱ālatī Ṣafīya wa-ad-dayr (My Aunt Ṣafiyya and the Monastery, 1991) and Ḥiǧārat Būbillū (Stones of Apollo, 1993) by two important Egyptian authors Bahā' Ṭāhir and Idwār al-Kharrāṭ. By means of textual analysis of the two novels, the thesis analyses the significance of space and place in the narrative construction, the use of the Christian symbolics in the description of the Coptic community and a possibility of literary fiction extending into to the real world and its impact on the formation of the Coptic culture. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Forensic analysis of anonymization strategies in English
Volná, Veronika ; Popelíková, Jiřina (advisor) ; Klégr, Aleš (referee)
The objective of this thesis is to identify those specific aspects of written style which native speakers of English modify when attempting to anonymize their texts. The conclusions are based on the analysis of 20 texts by 10 authors, all of whom are native speakers of English. Two texts dealing with the same topic were produced by each participant; one was written as an official letter of complaint, and the other was written as an anonymous letter. The bulk of the results are grounded on a qualitative stylistic analysis of the individual texts, with merely a brief survey of quantitative methods.The purpose of the introductory chapter is to familiarize the reader with the subject of forensic authorship analysis, to provide a brief summary of the current state of research, and to introduce a series of empirical studies. The practical part of the thesis presents the qualitative stylistic analysis, provides a shorter summary of the quantitative analysis, and finally ventures to draw meaningful conclusions from the results. The results showed that the majority of authors manipulated with the style/register of the texts and with the specific lexical choices, whereas none of the 10 authors made alterations to spelling and only 2 authors chose to change the punctuation in the anonymous text. However,...
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Textual Analysis of the Extant Text of The Secret History of the Mongols
Laurencio Tacoronte, Ariel ; Zikmundová, Veronika (advisor) ; Luvsandorj, Jugder (referee)
Textual Analysis of the Extant Original of The Secret History of the Mongols Abstract The purpose of the present thesis is to analyze every aspect of textual nature present in the Chinese original of the Secret History of the Mongols. The work consists of four chapters that touch issues such as the Chinese characters used for the transcription, their pronunciation and meaning, as well as invented or wrong characters. A list is presented with all the Mongolian syllables obtainable by means of the Chinese transcription system and with all the characters used for this. Subsequently, graphic aspects such as word division or punctuation are examined. The last chapter approaches the glossing system of the Mongolian text used in this work. On the basis of the analysis of the collected data, some plausible assumptions about historical or linguistic issues are advanced, such as the ethnic identity of the author of the transcript or the author of the glosses, the existence of a Mongolian dialect with own characteristics in the Yuan dynasty environment, or the reason why this transcript was glossed, and whether it was done out of an original written in Uyghur script. Keywords: textual analysis, Mongolian language, The Secret History of the Mongols, Yuan Dynasty
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Specific features of the music publicistic in representative printed magazines in the period of net-media discourse
Křížová, Lenka ; Šoltys, Otakar (advisor) ; Sládková, Hana (referee)
This thesis deals with specifics of textual formulas of music journalism in magazines Týden, Reflex and Respekt and it is based on their articles published from January to July 2011. It contains a content analysis of the word-stock with a special interest in metaphors ant its position in our language. We can see the way how we understand the reality around us which is based on a conceptualization in our minds. And then it reflects how we speak and what meanings we give to concrete words. These metaphoric concepts are followed with concrete examples coming from articles. There is also paid attention to colloquiality and bookishness and their suitability in today's media discourse. There is made a comparison of the individual writing of journalists who represent these magazines and we can also see different attitude in processing the same or similar topics. The theoretic part of this thesis follows the history of criticism with special interest in music criticism. Then we compare today's position of this media discourse and we can also see trends which might be followed in the future.
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