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The main topics in the stories of the jungle by Horacio Quiroga
Báčová, Barbora ; Poláková, Dora (advisor) ; Binková, Simona (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis is to point out the characteristic features and main themes in the Horacio Quiroga's stories of the jungle. The first part of the thesis is devoted to the general overview and theory of the short story with a focus on the Hispanic American short story, the key part is Quiroga's theoretical concept of the short story and the interpretation of key moments in his life. In the second part, the characteristic features of the short stories from the jungle are examined and the main topics are analyzed on the basis of the theoretical concept of the Ten Rules for the Perfect Storyteller and the author's autobiographical data. The three main topics analyzed are solitude, madness and death, which are presented to a large extent throughout Quiroga's work. The topics are subsequently interpreted in two selected short stories.
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Traveler Čeněk Paclt (1813-1887) - the first Czech that has ever been to all five continents in respect to historical anthropology
Kříž, Jaroslav ; Opatrný, Josef (advisor) ; Binková, Simona (referee)
This dissertation analyzes the life of Czech traveler Čeněk Paclt (1813 - 1887), who was born in the town of Turnov. Čeněk Paclt belongs to the most famous Czech travelers. He is also the first Czech, who has provably traveled through all five inhabited continents and has left written evidence about his journeys. Fundamental part of this thesis is focusing on his life and describes his adventures, which he had come across on the five continents. The thesis is written in historical, and employs historical anthropology, which focuses on a single individual in the course of human events, as one of the main methodological approaches. Secondarily, this thesis elaborates Paclt's personality and his view on aboriginal cultures, which he encountered during his travels, and Paclt's relationship towards his hometown is also mentioned. Furthermore, the dissertation touches upon traveling background in Czech nation during 19th century.
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Academical crise 1969 in Coimbra
Vondrašová, Jana ; Binková, Simona (advisor) ; Klíma, Jan (referee)
The diploma thesis Akademická krize 1969 v Coimbře (The 1969 Academic Crisis in Coimbra) discusses the Coimbra Academic Crisis in both the Portuguese and international contexts. The assessment of the validity of the thesis that the Portuguese student movement in the late 60s was a part of the international movement of '68 is based on the study of sociological theories of social movements and on the comparison with historical events in economically developed democratic countries - United States, Germany, France and Italy. Portuguese student movements were from the beginning connected with student organisations, the so-called associations, which were attempting to change the legislative framework of out-of-school activities. In the authoritative regime of António de Oliveira Salazar, the so-called New state, the primary function of universities was to raise ideologically conscious elites. The restrictive character of the above-mentioned legislative enabled government control of student life. The protest leaders usually maintained contacts with political opposition and subordinated the aims of the movement to the interests of the illegal Communist Party. As a rule, the government did not have difficulties dealing with the relatively small activist groups, and persecution by police led effectively to the...
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Czechoslovak - Venezuelan Relations in the years 1945 - 1968
Maternová, Simona ; Opatrný, Josef (advisor) ; Binková, Simona (referee)
This work is an analysis of a topic that until now has been practically no research, the relations of Czechoslovakia and Venezuela in the years 1945 - 1968, while this work focuses attention on diplomatic and economic relations, it also considers the influence of domestic politics in these countries, explaining the context of these international relations, specifically of the United States, Soviet union and Cuba. The thesis is primarily based on material from the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Relations of the Czech Republic and also the National Archive of the Czech Republic. Diplomatic relations between these countries were established in 1929, after the Munich Agreement of 1938, the embassy of Czechoslovakia in Caracas was closed. After World War II. economic relations were re-established. This was really important because the commercial interest of Czechoslovakia helped to establish the diplomatic relations. Diplomatic relations were discontinued by Venezuela in 1952 during the dictatorship of general Marcus Pérez Jiménez. When the dictator was overthrown in 1958, diplomatic relations were gradually re-established, once more through economic relations and finally established in 1968. The development of diplomatic relations were affected by several factors. The first one was domestic...
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The language of Mexican youth from the point of view of vocabulary
Šmídová, Kateřina ; Mištinová, Anna (advisor) ; Binková, Simona (referee)
Cílem práce je především analyzovat příklady živého jazyka konkrétního místa, doby a konkrétních mluvčích. Jazyk každého jednotlivce je charakterizován neJvlce místem a prostředím, v němž vyrůstal. Jde jak o prostředí geografické, tak sociální. Geograficky se bude tato práce zabývat územím hlavního města Mexika, sociálním prostředím pak bude prostředí vysokoškolských studentů. Cílem práce je popsat a analyzovat diatopické rysy slovní zásoby jazyka mexické mládeže, poukázat na jevy, které se v této sféře jazyka vyskytují, tj. znaky mexické španělštiny, jež se do jazyka tamní mládeže promítají, a výskyt anglicismů a jazykových výpůjček z indiánských jazyků. Dalším cílem je představit důležité sociolingvistické prvky slovní zásoby vysokoškolské mládeže, nejvíce užívání hovorových, slangových a vulgárních výrazů. Je dbáno na to, aby struktura i obsah práce byly přehledné. Práce je rozdělena do tří hlavních oddílů. První z nich, teoretická část, studuje především teoretické poznatky související s předmětem práce, tj. slovní zásobu jazyka a vliv cizích jazyků v této oblasti. Analyzuje diatopické rysy zkoumaného jazyka, neboť jazyk mexické mládeže je nedílnou součástí mexické varianty španělštiny, vliv nativních jazyků, především nahuatlu, a vliv angličtiny. Zabývá se také sociolingvistickou analýzou jazyka,...
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Jan Klecanda - Havlasa, his life and relation to Brazil
Kratochvílová, Lucie ; Binková, Simona (advisor) ; Grauová, Šárka (referee)
Jan Havlasa was the first Ambassador of Czechoslovakia to Brazil, a distinguished writer and explorer. The purpose of this thesis is to present the explorer's life. Havlasa visited Slovakia after finishing secondary school, and soon after he travelled also to Italy; Saint Louis, Missouri; or the island of Tahiti. After the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, Havlasa served as the Ambassador of Czechoslovakia to Brazil (1920-1924); in 1943, Czechoslovak president Edvard Beneš called him back into diplomatic service, this time as the Ambassador to Chile. Among his most important formative experiences we can find his membership in the Opium Commission of the League of Nations. Despite the fact that Havlasa spent most of his life abroad, he never relinquished his homeland: he took interest in the situation of Czechoslovakia and fought for its independence on the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. His extensive lecturing activities, as well as his treatise Colonial Policy in Relation to the Great War earned him one year of gaol in Vienna. The thesis also takes into account Havlasa's extensive literary work and his lectures, which took place all over Czechoslovakia and during which he presented his books, photographs and travel experience to his readers and listeners.
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Tupac Amaru II and his conribution for the following circumstances in Peru
Nováková, Lucie ; Opatrný, Josef (advisor) ; Binková, Simona (referee)
Tato diplomová práce na úvod popisuje historické pozadí koloniálního období v místokrálovství Peru a následně se soustřeďuje na povstání Josého Gabriela Túpaca Amarua, které bylo vyústěním obecné nespokojenosti vládnoucí na daném území. Túpac Amaru se tímto povstáním zapsal do dějin nejen Peru, ale celé Latinské Ameriky, a ovlivnil následný vývoj v jihoamerických koloniích. Stal se tak inspirací a námětem k dalším studiím a pracím. Jednou z oblasti, ve které se často můžeme setkat jeho jmé-nem, je literatura. Objevuje se v dílech jak peruánských autorů, tak i u spisovatelů ji-ných národností. Ţánrově je zastoupen jak v poezii, próze, tak i v dramatu i ve filmu, jejichž analýze je věnována druhá část této diplomové práce.
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Spanish varieties and Spanglish in the United States
Broulíková, Jana ; Mištinová, Anna (advisor) ; Binková, Simona (referee)
This work is dedicated to the study of Spanish language and the influence it has on English in the territory of the United States of America. The main emphasis is put on the variety of Spanglish. The work is divided into four sections. The first part is focusing on the history and the current state of the Spanish language in Northern America. The language is being divided into basic subgroups. The second part consists of the terminology used thorough this subsequent thesis. As for the third part, it is dealing wih Spanglish and its main characteristics. The final seccion is based on a survey that was realized by means of an Internet questionnaire. The thesis is putting stress on the reciprocal influence of the two languages and the comprehensibility of collected data. Key words Spanish, English, variety, Spanglish, bilingualism, lexicon, code switching, questionnaire.
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Czechoslovak-Chilean relations in the years 1960 - 1990
Terešková, Barbora ; Opatrný, Josef (advisor) ; Binková, Simona (referee)
The topic of this diploma thesis is the Czechoslovak-Chilean diplomatic and business relations in the 1960s - 1990s. Even though I am focussing on the period 1960s - 1990s Sixties, I decided to include in this thesis also the previous periods from 1945, which were in my opinion very important for a greater understanding of the whole topic. Whereas it is impossible to study this topic without any general introduction about the history of the Czechoslovak diplomacy, the first chapter is dedicated to it. The next part of the thesis is focused on the diplomatic and business relationships of the mentioned countries. This part of the thesis is divided into four periods which are determined by specific years, which were critical for the history of the Czechoslovak-Chilean diplomatic relationships. As the Chilean-Czechoslovak institute was hugely important in the history of the Czechoslovak-Chilean relationship, it has been included in this thesis as a separate chapter.
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Characterization of today's mexican spanish
Kloučková, Lucie ; Mištinová, Anna (advisor) ; Binková, Simona (referee)
In this paper I describe the current mexican spanish on the basis of available research by renowned linguists. I am also using my own experience with this language since I had lived in Mexico for several years. The paper is divided in four parts. The introduction contains also the definitions of terms relevant to the subject. The second part gives a view on mexican spanish first from the perspective of diachrony or the historical development of the language, and second from the perspective of synchrony which comprises the diatopic and diastratic points of view. The third part of the paper describes the phonetical and phonological aspects of mexican spanish, its morphosyntaxis and its lexical aspects. To ilustrate the theoretical parts of this paper, the last part contains transcriptions and analysis of two recordings of native speakers from the state of Guanajuato, made by myself during my stay in Mexico. Mexican spanish shares its main traits with other variants of spanish spoken in Hispanic America. In the field of phonology, it is the phenomena called seseo and yeísmo, in the morphosyntactic and lexical fields, it is the use of the form ustedes instead of vosotros, the use of words regarded as archaic in Spain or the absence of the phenomena called leísmo, laísmo and loísmo. Using periphrases instead of...
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