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The development of verbal and non-verbal communication of a child with Down syndrome
Homolková, Kamila ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (advisor) ; Slančová, Daniela (referee) ; Nováková Schöffelová, Miroslava (referee)
KEY WORDS Down syndrome, Language, Verbal Communication, Non-verbal Communication, Intellectual Disability, Bilingualism Homolková, Kamila (2021). Process of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication of a Child with Down Syndrome [dissertation thesis]. Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic), Faculty of Arts, Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication. ABSTRACT This dissertation thesis focuses on the process of development of verbal and nonverbal communication of a child with the Down syndrome. Its goal is to analyse, how language and speech are acquired in this atypically developing child, and on this base, supported by findings from previous published research, to describe the acquisition of all language levels - semantics, comprehension, pragmatics, and nonverbal means of communication. One part of this thesis is formed by an analysis of the bilingual (Czech and German) situation of the child. The main method employed is a longitudinal observation of early communication behaviour of the child (in the age from 24 to 48 months) and an analysis of video recordings; the parents' diaries are used as well.
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Czech and Slovak Contact Lexical Phenomena in Their Metalanguage Reflection (text corpus-based)
Gajdošová, Katarína ; Nábělková, Mira (advisor) ; Hoffmannová, Jana (referee) ; Slančová, Daniela (referee)
The present work focuses on metalanguage comments in Slovak and Czech texts. The comments occur together with contact-induced phenomena employed by both languages and can be identified in text fragments, such as Áno, taký som aj ostanem, lebo vraj starého psa novým kouskúm nenaučíš - ako hovoria bratia Česi / Nebyl jsem schopen jídla, ale lemtal jsem vodu "ani ťava", jak říkají bratia Slováci. The given issue is presented in the context of research focusing on the non-theoretic (folk, naive) metalinguistic reflection. The usage of metalanguage comments, accompanying deliberately contact-induced phenomena, is a testament to the existence of the Czech-Slovak and Slovak-Czech language contact and it clearly shows how Slovak and Czech language users intentionally employ words, multi-word units, idioms and other linguistic devices from the other language to fulfill their communicative intention. By using the contact-induced phenomena from the closely related language the speaker can achieve various communicativ e goals and effects including actualization and refreshing of his or her utterance, being more expressive and filling in subjectively perceived intro-linguistic lacuna. The starting point of the analysis of the metalanguage comments were the data from the Slovak and Czech corpus. A range of...
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