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How Polyglots Learn Languages. Methods for Language Acquisition by Multilingual People
PROCHÁZKOVÁ, Markéta
This thesis aims to find out what methods polyglots use to acquire languages; what the time horizon of that is; what the reason for a particular choice of a language is; and how to actually become a polyglot. Therefore, the thesis will deal with polyglots and methods of language acquisition in multilingual individuals. The theoretical part will explain the terms relevant to the topic. Assumptions that may affect language learning will also be discussed. Subsequently, the types of learning styles will be analyzed, while the last part of the thesis will focus on methods of language acquisition. A questionnaire will be used for practical analysis, which will be filled in by multilingual individuals. The questions they will answer concern their nationality, mother tongue, the number of languages they speak, the order in which they learnt them, etc. Furthermore, the questionnaire will examine different types of language learning methods and based on that, the interviewers will evaluate their advantages and disadvantages. The completed questionnaires will be further analyzed and interpreted.
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Foreign language and the psychotherapist: a study from a psychodynamic perspective
Or-Gordon, Enav ; Kučera, Miloš (advisor) ; Vavrda, Vladimír (referee) ; Štech, Stanislav (referee)
Starting from Freud and onwards, Language is the medium in which psychoanalysis, the talking cure, exists. Word choice and associations, dreams and sentence phrasing, make the landscape of the subject's inner world, personal story, and the unconscious. Language is also the means for psychological change through talking in all forms of analytic psychotherapy. It is the main tool in the service of therapist's interventions and the creation of insight. The present research explores the experience and the implications of doing therapeutic work in a foreign language. Data collection included interviews with nine polyglot therapists, analysis of the researcher's own experience as a polyglot therapist practicing psychotherapy in three languages, and theoretical research into psychodynamic, linguistic, and developmental aspects of polyglots. Thematic analysis of participants' contributions resulted in the following themes; 1. Polyglot Therapists' Relationship with their Different Languages. 2. Identity. 3. The Polyglot Therapist's Work, with two subthemes: 3.1. Non-verbal Elements. 3.2. Technical Issues. These themes are presented and discussed using participants' citations and theoretical literature. As a result of further, psychoanalytically-informed qualitative analysis, the concept of Therapeutic...
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