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Contrastive analysis of polysemic words in Czech and Spanish
VACKOVÁ, Lucie
The presented master´s thesis is focused on a contrastive analysis of Czech and Spanish phraseological units of the polysemic word heart. The objective is to analyse the original concepts of given phrases and their possible equivalent in the other language, using the knowledge about main cognitive principles explained in the theoretical part of the thesis. The thesis consists of theoretical chapters dealing with cognitive linguistics, categorization, embodiment and conceptual metaphors. These are later applied in the analytical part, which represents particular radial categories of the word heart. The results of the analysis is found at the end of the thesis, as well as the conclusion and a Spanish resume. The thesis is written in Czech language.
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Translation and Stylistic Analysis of One Chapter of Casualties of Peace by Edna O'Brien
Rusňáková, Adéla ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Pípalová, Renata (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on difficulties encountered when translating English fiction into Czech. It is divided into two sections. The practical part provides the translation of one chapter of the novel Casualties of Peace written by an Irish author Edna O'Brien in 1966. The theoretical part delivers the stylistic analysis including choice of register, morphological, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic aspects. Each of them is illustrated with the commented examples based on theoretical background from works by Jiří Levý, Dagmar Knittlová and Olga Krijtová.
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Use of Sense Relations in Expressing Language Humour: TV Series Analysis
Kopicová, Linda ; Matuchová, Klára (advisor) ; Vít, Radek (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on sense relations, the syntagmatic and the paradigmatic axis, and their use in expressing language humour. The analysis was carried out in a corpus extracted from the TV series Friends and How I Met Your Mother. It strives to answer the question whether the sitcoms display the same number of comical incidences both in the first and the last season. Furthermore, it sheds some light on the linguistic realizations employed and the way they operate to trigger laughter. Finally, the thesis provides an insight into the universal tendencies of humour realizations and their reflection in the amassed data.
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Polysemy in English Modal Verbs
KUBÁSEK, Vít
One of the features of modal verbs is their polysemous meaning. The goal of this bachelor thesis is to quantify polysemy by means of spoken (BASE) and written (ukWaC) corpus. Modal meanings of the selected English modal verbs are classified based on available sources, mainly on Cognitive English Grammar. The thesis also contains prototypical examples of all modal meanings of each selected modal verb.
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Comprehension of Polysemous Expressions in a Pre-School Child
Bendíková, Barbora ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (advisor) ; Šormová, Kateřina (referee)
The bachelor's paper focuses on the comprehension of polysemous expressions and ambiguous syntactic constructions in pre-school children. The goal of the paper is to find out, whether and how children understand polysemy, focusing closer on chosen metaphorical and metonymical transfers, and ambiguity in selected constructions. An original battery of questions has been created for this purpose, the data were being collected by a series of recorded semi-structured interviews with three children. Afterwards, the interviews were transcribed using a combination of the transcription systems GAT 2 and CHAT and analyzed. The collected data also contained interviews with every child's parent to provide closer information about the child and its linguistic, mental and social development. The results of the paper have shown that children understand many of the metaphorical (e. g. personification) and metonymical (e. g. synecdoche) transfers. It seems however, that they perceive them mostly unconsciously (as something given). On the other hand, the collected data have suggested a certain ability of the children to produce the transfers freely, depending on the given context.
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Use of lingustic ambiguity in sexist advertising demonstrated on works from the competition Sexistické prasátečko
Nápravníková Kořanová, Johana ; Klabíková Rábová, Tereza (advisor) ; Shavit, Anna (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with double entendre in sexist advertising. Sexist advertising uses many vehicles of expression and linguistic phenomena but double entendre seems to be one of the most favourite ones. This thesis aims to analyze the vehicles of expression (both textual and visual) that lead to and permit perceiving the sexual meanings in sexist adverts. The introduction part discusses the theory of the vehicles of expression, deals with intertextuality and pragmatic aspects of adverts. The second part focuses on sexism, the nature of sexual information present in adverts, perception and effectiveness of those information. It also outlines the most frequent vehicles of expression in sexist ads and its ethics. The author then defines in details two vehicles - contextualization of text and image and double entendre. We take semiotic and semantic approach to them. The last section applies all the theoretical findings on particular adverts from the competition Sexistické prasátečko (The sexist little pig).
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Use of Sense Relations in Expressing Language Humour: TV Series Analysis
Kopicová, Linda ; Matuchová, Klára (advisor) ; Vít, Radek (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on sense relations, the syntagmatic and the paradigmatic axis, and their use in expressing language humour. The analysis was carried out in a corpus extracted from the TV series Friends and How I Met Your Mother. It strives to answer the question whether the sitcoms display the same number of comical incidences both in the first and the last season. Furthermore, it sheds some light on the linguistic realizations employed and the way they operate to trigger laughter. Finally, the thesis provides an insight into the universal tendencies of humour realizations and their reflection in the amassed data.
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Translation and Stylistic Analysis of One Chapter of Casualties of Peace by Edna O'Brien
Rusňáková, Adéla ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Pípalová, Renata (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on difficulties encountered when translating English fiction into Czech. It is divided into two sections. The practical part provides the translation of one chapter of the novel Casualties of Peace written by an Irish author Edna O'Brien in 1966. The theoretical part delivers the stylistic analysis including choice of register, morphological, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic aspects. Each of them is illustrated with the commented examples based on theoretical background from works by Jiří Levý, Dagmar Knittlová and Olga Krijtová.
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