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Motivations behind the naming of descendents, and the changes in such naming throughout generations
Stuchlá, Aneta ; Hájková, Eva (advisor) ; Chejnová, Pavla (referee)
Résumé The topic of this paper is a survey into the motivations behind the naming of descendents, and the changes in such naming throughout generations. The survey found that when choosing names for their children, parents take into account various factors. The level of influence of these factors undergoes a change throughout time. 396 samples (children) were obtained for assessment from a total of 212 respondents (parents). The aforementioned children were born within the period commencing in the 1940s and stretching up to the present time - 2011. Altogether, it could be said that the sound of the name itself influences the naming process the most. This is closely followed by aspects of agreement between first name and Christian name, semantics of the specific name and family tradition. All motivations have undergone some degree of change throughout time. The most notable changes are a permanent fall in the influence of family tradition and a permanent rise in other categories of influence. Among the latter we can find those concerning the sound of the name, agreement with Christian name, and semantics of the name. Two further categories of motivation - naming children after famous personalities and after fictitious characters - although continuously rising, have not yet exceeded 10%. Their influence is...
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Analysis of the Czech translation of Yuri Vynnychuk's collection of short stories Chachacha
Stelibská, Alexandra ; Chlaňová, Tereza (advisor) ; Lendělová, Věra (referee)
This diploma thesis Analysis of the Czech translation of Yuri Vynnychuk's collection of short stories Chachacha is devoted to the analysis of translation solutions of selected linguistic features in two short stories - Chachacha and Kulparkiv, aneb Chachacha 2. The goal of this work is to assess translation methods of Rita Kindlerová, describe its possible positives and negatives. Introductory chapters deal with the biography of Yuri Vynnychuk, his classification in a literal context, general characteristics of his work and consequently the stylistic analysis of two excerpted texts. An integral part of the work is definition of theoretical base for translatological analysis. Main parts of the work are focused on the analysis of translation of specific linguistic features, which are the stylistic dominants of selected texts: stylization of speech, style differentiation, phraseme and selected culture- specific items with an emphasis on proper nouns.
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Motivations behind the naming of descendents, and the changes in such naming throughout generations
Stuchlá, Aneta ; Hájková, Eva (advisor) ; Chejnová, Pavla (referee)
Résumé The topic of this paper is a survey into the motivations behind the naming of descendents, and the changes in such naming throughout generations. The survey found that when choosing names for their children, parents take into account various factors. The level of influence of these factors undergoes a change throughout time. 396 samples (children) were obtained for assessment from a total of 212 respondents (parents). The aforementioned children were born within the period commencing in the 1940s and stretching up to the present time - 2011. Altogether, it could be said that the sound of the name itself influences the naming process the most. This is closely followed by aspects of agreement between first name and Christian name, semantics of the specific name and family tradition. All motivations have undergone some degree of change throughout time. The most notable changes are a permanent fall in the influence of family tradition and a permanent rise in other categories of influence. Among the latter we can find those concerning the sound of the name, agreement with Christian name, and semantics of the name. Two further categories of motivation - naming children after famous personalities and after fictitious characters - although continuously rising, have not yet exceeded 10%. Their influence is...
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Family names in Sokolov
FRANCOVÁ, Zuzana
This thesis focuses on linguistic analysis of surnames in Sokolov. Classification and analysis of this antropomastic material are based on study of onomastic literature. The goal of this thesis is to introduce actual survey on word formation types of surnames in Sokolov.
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Declension of masculine nouns of foreign origin - tendencies in Contemporary Czech.
ZELENKOVÁ, Lenka
The subject of the bachelor work is the Declension of masculine nouns of foreign origin - tendencies in Contemporary Czech. For clarity, we divided the work into four parts. The first part examines the sloping borrowed masculine, which are not fully included in the Czech system of declination, language guides. We describe the rules under which they are foreign masculine decline. The second part summarizes the results of three surveys submitted by Czech speakers to fill. We are here declinations masculine borrowed in practical use. Verify that the speakers are currently trying to inflect or inflect borrowed masculine according to the rules of language guides. In the third part of this work deals with exploration, which we used when writing a term paper. We refer here to view the inflection of the respondents borrowed names and compare the three variants formed fictitious names with variations of existing names. We compare whether it is possible that both groups of names of inflection in the same way. The fourth part contains annexes which are some examples of declension masculine nouns mentioned in the first part, then surveys the various models and their results. We enclose a summary of the substantive declension types.
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