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Language management in Korean-based companies in the Czech Republic
Park, Minyoung ; Nekvapil, Jiří (advisor) ; Ferenčík, Milan (referee) ; Sieglová, Dagmar (referee)
Language Management in Korean-based companies in the Czech Republic Abstract: This study explores a variety of simple and organized management in Korean-based multinational companies in the Czech Republic. The analysis is guided by seven research questions at the micro and macro levels: 1) How is the second language interaction in a balanced communicative situation (e.g., local employees vs. Korean local employees) managed? 2) How is the second language interaction in an unbalanced communicative situation (e.g., local employees vs. expatriates or service & product providers vs. foreign customers) managed? 3) What are the roles and impact of employees called 'Bridge (i.e., the Koreans speaking English and Czech, and the Czech speaking English and Korean)' in everyday multilingual interactions? 4) How is the official language policy in the company organized and formulated? 5) How does the company manage potential communicative problems experienced by the Korean and local employees? 6) How does the company manage potential communicative problems in the interaction of the employees, both Korean and local, with foreign customers (i.e., in an unbalanced communicative situation)? 7) How does the company manage potential socio-cultural problems in the interaction between Korean and local employees? Recorded and...
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Multilingualism and the linguistic landscape of Písek
Váňa, Ondřej ; Nekvapil, Jiří (advisor) ; Sloboda, Marián (referee)
The thesis describes the multilingual linguistic situation in the public space of the town of Písek on the basis of an ethnographic analysis of its linguistic landscape (LL), informed by the ideas of Jan Blommaert. The main methods used are field data collection, coupled with a complementary online research, and participant observation, in which I take on the role of a customer or a "curious" passer-by. All field research was carried out in the years 2021-2022. Based on my observations, I describe the stratified linguistic situation according to the placement and function of individual languages, perform a closer analysis of selected signs in the LL, taking into account the question of their authors' and addressees' identity, and offer insight into the life of individual language communities and the ways in which they present themselves or are presented in the LL. In a relatively small Czech town, I thus uncover a surprisingly diverse and complex situation.
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Turn-taking in distance teaching
Svašková, Anna ; Nekvapil, Jiří (advisor) ; Havlík, Martin (referee)
This bachelor thesis aims to describe some of the phenomena occurring during distance learning, predominantly when it comes to turn-taking. Based on some previous literature, the first chapters of the thesis introduce conversation analysis and its view on classroom interaction and computer-mediated communication, then also turn-taking including its particularities during videocalls and then the characteristics of interaction during distance learning specifically as well. The next part of the thesis introduces a conversation analysis research of distance learning recordings, which is focused on the issues of distance learning such as overlaps or a limited access to non-verbal communication, then also on its advantages such as the presence of the chat channel, then on the strategies that are used when teachers try to hand the floor over to the students, including giving some kind of hint, assigning the next speaker or adding a sub-question, and finally on the ways in which the teachers react to the students being silent, where the result is either needing to explain the matter or the silence being a sufficient form of response.
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The language policy in Alsace 1871-1918
Martykánová, Zuzana ; Dovalil, Vít (advisor) ; Nekvapil, Jiří (referee)
This thesis presents the language policy of the German Empire in Alsace from 1871 to 1918. The language situation and its transformations are described as a result of the influence of language planning / language policy. For this research, discourse consists of corresponding documents related to language use; drawing on the language management theory, they are primarily classified according to the individual phases of language management. Changes in the linguistic situation and the nature of the German language policy are shown based on alterations of the language use in domains such as education, administration, provincial council, justice, military, or church and in the fields of proper names, toponyms, and inscriptions. In the process of language management, language production in those areas is managed by evaluation and by various correction measures in consequence of noting of the deviation from a norm. In the domain of education, the acquisition planning, German progressively became the sole language of education in many schools; despite the effort of Alsatians, French was taught only exceptionally. In administration, German shifted to the position of the primary language although French was permitted in some communes as an official language. In the provincial council, the period of bilingualism...
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Turn-taking in an institutional discourse
Vaníčková, Klára ; Nekvapil, Jiří (advisor) ; Mrázková, Kamila (referee)
(in English): The thesis focuses on introducing a new topic in a conversation during meetings of Student Council of Faculty of Arts, Charles University (SR). To analyse 19 examples from SR environment, conversation analysis and unmotivated research were used. These methods confirmed the hypothesis - speakers follow the official rules of the organization during meetings. In conversations they proceed systematically; new topics are introduced by a chairman who also allows other speakers to start talking. Introducing of new topics is conditioned by the situation. If a remarkable situational action occurs, it becomes dominant in the conversation; however, after a solution has been reached, speakers return to the previous topic on the base of its re-introduction by a chairman.
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Semiotics of note-taking in consecutive interpreting
Hrušovská, Petra ; Nekvapil, Jiří (advisor) ; Sládková, Miroslava (referee)
The present thesis focuses on semiotic aspects of note-taking in consecutive interpreting, in particular with respect to the process of semiosis and factors influencing the interpreters' conception of their notes. Chapter 1 mentions the basic features of note-taking in order to trace its semiotic characteristics in the following parts of the thesis. In Chapter 2, the notes as a specific semiotic system are briefly discussed within the framework of the second Peircean trichotomy of signs (cases of iconicity, indexicality and symbolicity are demonstrated) and in terms of their function, productivity and spatial settings. After these general considerations, Chapter 3 introduces the main theoretical approaches to the technique of note-taking (principally those of the Geneva and Heidelberg schools) including the issues of the languages involved in interpreting or the nature of signs. As the accent is on the process of semiosis (apprehension of signs by interpreters, generating signs according to the meaning of the speech and searching for the motivation for the interpreters' concrete choices of signs and their form), the chapter lists some basic signs and methods well- tested by practitioners. The signs are also analysed in terms of their origin and possibilities of expansion (composition, derivation...
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The language law and the labour market. The analysis of the economic motivated behavior of the labour market participants under the particular consideration of the judgments of the European Court of Justice
Navrátilová, Michaela ; Dovalil, Vít (advisor) ; Nekvapil, Jiří (referee)
The scope of this thesis is to examine, on the basis of the tools supplied by the language management theory, the selected judgments of the European Court of Justice and consequently to clarify the practical relevance of this theory within the components of the legal discourse (this means the judgments). The main issue presented is, that based on this theory, complicated language problems, which arise in the EU and are based on the discrimination due to language reasons, can be described as well. It will be emphasized, that the micro and the macro level of a language problem really exist and that they influence each other. The analyzed judgments solved the problems of the limitation of the free movement of persons in the EU, whereby this limitation was caused through the language requirements made by the member states and the EU. Previous to the analysis, the theoretical background of this thesis shall be presented: The problem of the language diversity in the EU, the Language Planning and the Theory of Language Management, the functioning of the European Court of Justice incl. the procedure of the preliminary ruling will be introduced. Finally, in the empirical part of the thesis, eight judgments of the European Court of Justice will be introduced and analyzed. After introducing the tools of the Language...
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Language management in Japanese-Czech corporations in the Czech Republic
Sakamoto, Namiko ; Nekvapil, Jiří (advisor) ; Holub, Jan (referee)
Since 1990, Japanese enterprises have been opening branches in Central Europe. The Czech Republic has been one of the most attractive markets for them and their investments have accelerated, especially since the Czech Republic joined the European Union in 2004. At the end of 2003, I began working as a Czech-Japanese interpreter and translator in several Japanese-Czech corporations in the Czech Republic. As I was involved in the multilingual situations of the economic subjects, I was interested in examining whether the multilingual situations had any effects on the economic activities. This study presents a survey of the language situations in three Japanese-Czech corporations in the Czech Republic, where I conducted semi-structured interviews with eleven respondents and recorded two meetings. I demonstrate how the communication between Czech and Japanese workers is practiced and I analyze the acquired data from the perspective of Language Management Theory (LMT). In addition to the semi-structured interviews and audio recordings, the data inc1udes participant observation based on my own activities as an interpreter and a translator. As this is the first detailed study of the language situations in Japanese-Czech corporations in the Czech Republic, it introduces new data and analysis to the body of research...
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The media dialogical networks before the year 1989
Provázková, Karla ; Nekvapil, Jiří (advisor) ; Šebesta, Karel (referee)
Focusing on intertextuality and dialogical properties, the media dialogical networks are one of the methods of media content analysis. This thesis is the first insight into the mass media communication in the communist Czechoslovakia (1948 - 1989) through the media dialogical networks. Newspaper articles (mostly published in Rudé právo) from four years: 1952, 1967, 1972 and 1989 have been chosen for the analysis. The author's supposition is that the different political situation in the years 1952 and 1972 on the one hand, and 1967 and 1989 on the other, influences the shape of the media dialogical networks formed in these years. The analysis shows that the media dialogical networks from the communist period have the same basic properties as the media dialogical networks from the post-communist period (the turns are multiplicated and distributed in time and space). There is one typical characteristic common to the networks from all four analysed years: the networks are represented by a certain amount of newspaper articles, but they are usually constructed by a markedly higher amount of dialogical events. Another relevant finding is that the media dialogical networks in the years analysed have their specific features. The networks from the year 1952 are represented by only two or three articles. Next, they...
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Extreme Case Formulations in the Research Interview
Zaepernicková, Eliška ; Nekvapil, Jiří (advisor) ; Havlík, Martin (referee)
The following thesis analyses the form and importance of extreme case formulations based on more than 10 research interviews. Extreme case formulations, i.e. formulations comprising expressions such as "nothing", "everything" or "noone", which present a phenomenon or a circumstance according to its minimal or maximal properties, can constitute a complication in the analysis of research interviews. This thesis expand the existing hypothesis of extreme case formulations by adding new findings, for example the bipolarity of extreme case formulations. In the analysed data, these do often occur together with different clasifiers, which either weaken (softeners) or strengthen (intensifiers) their extreme force. At the same time the following thesis broadens the research of extreme case formulations of interdisciplinary approach, which uses the findings from psychology and rhetoric. The conducted research is furthermore completed with the acoustic analysis of semantically extreme formulations, whose results show that extreme case formulations often tend to be acoustically emphasized. Keywords: extreme case formulation, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, interview, Czech
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