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Onomatopoeic Words in the Present-day French - a Contrastive Corpus Study
DVOŘÁKOVÁ, Adéla
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to define the concept of onomatopoeic word in the context of its phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic specifics. Subsequently, the author will briefly discuss topics related to the onomatopoeia - the question of the linguistic sign, the principle of arbitrariness and motivation, interjections, sound symbolism and ideophones. The findings and hypotheses from the theoretical part of the thesis will be verified in the practical part through the analysis of specific Czech and French onomatopoeic expressions.
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Émile Benveniste and the role of sens
Krásová, Eva ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Pešek, Ondřej Matthew (referee) ; Fulka, Josef (referee)
Eva Krásová: Émile Benveniste and the role of sens My thesis "Émile Benveniste and the role of sens" is a monographic study of the life work of Émile Benveniste (1902-1977) through the role that the concept of meaning (sens) takes in his thought. I adopt the methodology defined by K. Kœrner as "historiography of language sciences", and thus my perspective on Benveniste's work is mainly chronological and developmental. First part of the thesis concentrates on theoretical foundations of Benveniste's thought in the school of Paris (A. Meillet and M. Bréal), Prague (R. Jakobson and V. Skalička) and Copenhagen (texts around 1939). I point out the concept of language system in diachrony in A. Meillet's thinking and in Prague school and present a hypothesis about the role of Émile Bneveniste in their contact during the International congresses of linguists. This results into a description of the perspective of meaning as it was presented in Benveniste's 1962 lecture "Levels of linguistic analysis". Second part deals with Benveniste's concept linguistics of discours. First chapter explains the main concepts of Benveniste's theory of language: semiotics and semantics or the semiotical and the semantical (le/la sémiotique, sémantique), enunciation (énonciation), appropriation (appropriation) and the theory...
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Motivation of selected Prague city's toponyms in Czech sign language
Hejlová, Lenka ; Hudáková, Andrea (advisor) ; Macurová, Alena (referee)
Práce "Motivovanost vybraných toponym hlavního města Prahy v českém znakovém jazyce" se věnuje jedné z oblasti onomastiky - vlastním jménům zeměpisným, a to znakům pro stanice metra hlavního města Prahy (hodonymům). Práce zkoumá podstatu a princip fungování motivovanosti v českém znakovém jazyce, důraz klade na vizuálně motivované znaky. Cílem práce je i zkoumat a případně klasifikovat, jaké pojmenovávací postupy využívají znaky označující stanice pražského metra.
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