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Vitality of the current Galician language
Picková, Lenka ; Čermák, Petr (advisor) ; Zavadil, Bohumil (referee) ; Valeš, Miroslav (referee)
Mgr. Lenka Picková Vitality of the current Galician language Abstract: Never in the field of human history has the dying out of languages been as intense as it is in the present day. The goal of this paper is to assess the vitality of the one of the co- official languages in Spain, the Galician language. After an indispensable definition of the social-historical context, a deep, qualitative and quantitative analysis of nine factors is performed: inter-generational language transmission, education, the absolute and relative number of speakers, trends in existing language domains and media, governmental and institutional language attitudes, and, above all, the attitudes of Galician citizens toward their languages. In the final chapter, a summary of the results of these individual factors, as well as an assessment of their influence on the vitality of the Galician language, is provided. Key words: endangered languages, assessment of language vitality, Galician, language attitudes, minority languages, diglossia, languages in contact, national identity, speaker's attitudes.
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Issues of Socioliguistics
KŘÍBALOVÁ, Adéla
The main subject of this thesis are issues of sociolinguistics. The first part deals with a common definition of the main terms related to this topic as a linguistic sub-field. This part also briefly describes the fields related to sociolinguistics. The next chapter applies to history. It describes how this field has developed abroad and how it was coming to our country in the following years. After that the theoretical division and characterization of subject matters follow. The following part included in the thesis describes the methods of sociolinguistics elements research, its applicability in practice and also the analysis techniques of acquired research material. The second part includes a short anonymous questionnaire looking into one particular part of all the subjects within the discipline. The results of this research are properly processed to graphs and tables.
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Langue d'oc in the scientists' discourse before and after the French Revolution
Křivánková, Alena ; Klusáková, Luďa (advisor) ; Madl, Claire (referee)
The master thesis The Langue d'oc in the Scholarly Discourse Before and After The Great French Revolution considers the image of the Occitan language in the lexico-graphical and grammatico-graphical works that have been written between the beginning of the 18th and the mid-19th century. During this epoch, in the framework of a diglossic model, the language in question had been suffering a status of a dominated language. At the same time, however, it had awaken an interest of many scholars whose motivations for their studies ranged from a will to contribute to a proliferation of Francization to an effort to save the Occitan language and restore its own dignity. It is precisely this motivation, as well as the denominations which our authors had given to the language in question and also their strategies for its valorization or devalorization, that this text engages with. The socio-linguistic situation in the Pays d'Oc and the impact of The French Revolution and of its linguistic politics on the presence and the representation of the Occitan are also being examined. These phenomena are studied in the framework of a theory of the formation of nations by Miroslav Hroch as the phase A of the Occitan movement which had remained, at least during this phase, a purely cultural phenomenon, that is to say a...
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Vitality of the current Galician language
Picková, Lenka ; Čermák, Petr (advisor) ; Zavadil, Bohumil (referee) ; Valeš, Miroslav (referee)
Mgr. Lenka Picková Vitality of the current Galician language Abstract: Never in the field of human history has the dying out of languages been as intense as it is in the present day. The goal of this paper is to assess the vitality of the one of the co- official languages in Spain, the Galician language. After an indispensable definition of the social-historical context, a deep, qualitative and quantitative analysis of nine factors is performed: inter-generational language transmission, education, the absolute and relative number of speakers, trends in existing language domains and media, governmental and institutional language attitudes, and, above all, the attitudes of Galician citizens toward their languages. In the final chapter, a summary of the results of these individual factors, as well as an assessment of their influence on the vitality of the Galician language, is provided. Key words: endangered languages, assessment of language vitality, Galician, language attitudes, minority languages, diglossia, languages in contact, national identity, speaker's attitudes.
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The influence of the Galician language on the Castilian language - interferences and borrowings
Řepíková, Kamila ; Čermák, Petr (advisor) ; Zavadil, Bohumil (referee)
As the name suggests, the main theme of the present work is the influence the Galician language has on the Spanish language system. In more detail the work also deals with specific phenomens which penetrate into the Castilian language spoken in Galicia creating a new variety of Spanish, which is typical for given region. In addition to the aforementioned aspects, we encounter in this work the matter of the influence Spanish has on Galician and we also discuss some theoretical questions. The work addresses such problems as definition of language and dialect, matters of diglossia and bilingualism and explanation of some linguistic terms, e.g. interference and integration.
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Revitalization of the Regional Language in Provence by the Medium of Calandreta Schools
Vacula, Richard ; Zavadil, Bohumil (advisor) ; Valeš, Miroslav (referee) ; Prokop, Josef (referee)
Revitalization of the Regional Language in Provence by the Medium of Calandreta Schools Richard Vacula (Abstract) This thesis focuses on the role of bilingual Calandreta schools in the process of maintenance and revitalisation of the regional language in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region, France. It is based on empirical research undertaken in form of questionnaires and directed interviews in the place of two existing Provençal Calandretas, Gap and Orange. A sample of the local population and respondents from the area of the two schools has been included in the research. We have studied linguistic behaviour, attitudes towards regional education, and the picture of the schools and the language in question. The results suggest that the public is inclined towards the essentials of the language being taught, however, less so towards bilingual education. The results also show that the potential of the schools observed lies rather in their pedagogical methods. The strong pressure of French is noticeable even on the grounds of the schools. The use of Occitan in everyday communication situations is then somewhat rare. The regional language is noticeably associated with the school environment and is connected with specific contexts. Hence, it is necessary to rate the influence of the Calandreta schools on the real...
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Dialect features in magazine interviews
Jílková, Lucie
The article analyzes elements of the Wallachian dialect which appeared in selected magazine article interview. The interview analyzed is essentially written in standard Czech, yet it is to varying degrees permeated by elements of the Wallachian dialect. The occurrence of various varieties is connected to the so-called diglossic situation in Czech. Dialect elements are generally represented in the interviews through the use of well-known lexical units (dědina) as well as lesser-known ones (uškřekaná) or morphological differences (potřebujú). Dialect elements can be used to contribute to the overall lively character of the interview and bring the reader closer to the interviewee.
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