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Czechs' Attitude Towards the Gender Inflection of Female Surnames
Amrichová, Katalin ; Sojka, Pavel (advisor) ; Adam, Robert (referee)
The goal of this thesis is to analyse the attitude of Czechs towards gender inflection of female surnames. The contents of the theoretical part are history of the origins of surnames, views on inflection in the past and also opinions of contemporary experts regarding this subject. It analyses arguments both in favour of and opposing gender inflection. It covers changes in legislation which currently deal with this issue, their development in the past and comparison with legislations of other European countries. Included in the theoretical part are also the rules that apply to gender inflection of surnames. The empirical part is based on research, which was concluded using an electronic questionnaire. Its goal was to find out what are the respondent's preferences regarding gender inflected female surnames and gender neutral female surnames, as well as how tolerant they are towards the surname forms they don't prefer. This research applied to both Czech female surnames and foreign ones. Through the questionnaire it turned out that the respondents are relatively tolerant to gender neutral female surnames, while in their preferences they are quite conservative. The vast majority prefers the use of a gender inflected surname, after marriage they favour women using the husband's gender inflected surname....
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Female and male gender of nouns of professions (analysis based on corpus data)
CHVÁTALOVÁ, Karolína
The bachelor thesis Female and male gender of nouns of professions (analysis based on corpus data) is divided into two parts. The theoretical part sums up the rules for gender inflection of professions in present-day Spanish. The theoretical part presents a comparison of various spanish grammar books, which deal with this topic. The section dedicated to the practical results attained from the research was completed by analysing selection of nouns of professions. This research was carried out with the aid of the synchronous spanish corpus: CORDE, CREA and CORPES XXI.
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Linguistic sexism in contemporary Spanish
Hofmanová, Sabina ; Čermák, Petr (advisor) ; Kratochvílová, Dana (referee)
(in English): As the title itself indicates, the topic of this thesis is the linguistic sexism in contemporary Spanish. The theoretical part offers a critical perspective on the phenomenon of so called sexism in language and defines terms such as linguistic sexism, androcentrism or invisibilization of women in the language. It also provides a brief outline of the development of gender linguistics with an emphasis on Spanish-speaking countries and provides an overview of important works on the topic. The thesis also deals with the contrast between linguistic sexism and sexism as a social issue, as well as with the question whether language can be sexist, or whether the sexism is caused by the way the speakers use the language. Particular attention is paid to the issue of gender in language and phenomena that are considered as sexist, especially the generic masculine. The practical part is mainly dedicated to lexical issues: denoting women in professions that were traditionally male and idioms and set phrases that can be examples of sexist use of language or a possible reflection of social sexism in language. It also analyses the asymmetry in addressing women and men in a polite way, inadequate pairs, apparently dual forms and missing lexical units as well as insults and profanities that can be...
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