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The Culture of Spoken Speech by Czech Radio Announcers and Moderators
HOUFOVÁ, Kateřina
The bachelor's thesis deals with the culture of the speech of announcers and moderators in the environment of the public-law institution Czech Radio. The theoretical part of the work is focused on the most important tool of radio speakers, i.e. language in its spoken form, and describes how its role is changing in today's society and how it differs from written language. The thesis also deals with the general principles of media functioning in the Czech Republic, closer attention is paid to Czech Radio. The conclusion of the theoretical part of the work deals with valid orthoepic, lexical, morphological and stylistic principles. The practical part of the work tries to answer the question of whether the expressions appearing in them are in accordance with the standards binding for public communication, using the linguistic analysis of the radio programs of the Czech Radio. The questionnaire survey introduces the attitude of society to radio broadcasting.
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Accuracy and fluency in the speech of the advanced learner of English
Gráf, Tomáš ; Klégr, Aleš (advisor) ; Šebesta, Karel (referee) ; Betáková, Lucie (referee)
The thesis analyses the accuracy and fluency exhibited in the spoken advanced-learner English of Czech students of English philology. It draws its data from a learner corpus comprising fifty 15-minute interviews with these learners and from a parallel native-speaker corpus of forty-nine 15-minute interviews. As regards accuracy, the learner data is analysed using techniques of error analysis. Salient features of advanced learner English are identified and the subsequent quantitative analyses reveal that throughout the entire group of students (which is characterized by what revealed itself to be a wide proficiency span) two groups of error types are found to be much more frequent than any other, namely errors in the use of articles and tenses. For the fluency measurements a small selection of variables has been chosen to describe speed fluency (speech rate) and breakdown fluency (the frequency of unfilled and filled pauses), and the results are compared with those for the parallel native-speaker corpus. The analysed native speakers are found to produce speech at a generally much higher rate than the majority of the learners. There does not appear - at least in the light of the given sample - to be any direct correlation between fluency and the frequency of errors. Moreover, the learners are found...
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N-grams in the speech of Czech and native speakers of English
Zvěřinová, Simona ; Gráf, Tomáš (advisor) ; Tichý, Ondřej (referee)
The diploma thesis is concerned with the analysis of recurrent word-combinations in the speech of advanced Czech speakers of English and native speakers of English. The data used for the analysis is extracted from two corpora, learner corpus LINDSEI and native speaker corpus LOCNEC. The aim of the thesis is to compare the two groups of speakers, determine differences in their use of recurrent word-combinations and compare the findings to previous studies involving speakers of different languages. The quantitative analysis is performed on a sample of 50 speakers from each corpus and the frequency data is used to compare the two groups as to the number of types of word-combinations they use and how frequently they do so. The qualitative analysis is performed on a sample of 15 speakers from each corpus to determine functional differences. Four categories of word-combinations are determined in the analysis. In the conclusion, the quantitative and qualitative findings are compared to previous research involving speakers of different languages. Keywords: spoken language, learner language, n-grams, n-gram analysis, recurrent word- combinations, lexical bundles, learner corpus
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Tagging a spoken learner corpus
Gillová, Lucie ; Gráf, Tomáš (advisor) ; Tichý, Ondřej (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to propose a tagging system for a learner corpus of spoken English which would, apart from tagging errors, focus also on the features specific for spoken language. Theoretical part, therefore, introduces basic concepts including learner language, the development of learner corpora in the last 20 years and both classical and computer-aided error analysis. Features typical of spoken language are described in the theoretical part as well since these are the focus of the research part of the thesis. The Louvain tagging system used for error-tagging of a leaner corpus of written language is used as the basis for the tagging system proposed in this thesis. Based on the analysis of 20 transcriptions taken from the Czech part of spoken learner corpus LINDSEI, modifications of the categories taken from the Louvain error-tagging system are proposed and new categories necessary for a better description of spoken language are introduced. The tagging system proposed in this thesis should make further analysis of the tagged corpus easier.
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Systeme of relative pronouns in spoken French
Neudörfl, Martin ; Štichauer, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Nádvorníková, Olga (referee)
The relative pronoun system in spoken French represents an aspect of the French language that didn't receive appropriate attention by the scientific community until the second half of the 20th century. The aim of this work is to explore the system of relative clauses and related subordinate strategies in spoken variant of the French language, confronting it with its normative variant, as well as to explain causes of the existence of this diasystemism in French relative subordination. The main part of this work is a research based on testing representative non-normative constructions on internet forums and via a questionnaire. The results illustrate tendencies and the rate of acceptability of non-normative subordinate strategies using complementizer across the French speaking society, and thus contribute to a better understanding of this aspect of the French language.
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Use of diminutives in the internet discussions regarding the gender of the speaker
Egedová, Miroslava ; Hrnčířová, Zdeňka (advisor) ; Rezková, Iva (referee)
This bachelor thesis compares the use of diminutives among men and women in the computer-mediated communication. It contains a theorethical summary of basic grammatical rules regarding the formation of diminutives, the semantic aspects of their use in an informal language (with emphasis on expressivity) and an overview of the socioliguistic theories within the framework of gender differences. The research section is based on a sociolinguistic study of this particular subject. The aim is to find the most significant differences of the word choices and the frequency of use of diminutives of men and women and possibly a reason for it. Abstract Deze bachelor scriptie vergelijkt het gebruik van verkleinwoorden tussen mannen en vrouwen in informele gesprekken op het internet. Hij bevat een theoretisch gedeelte dat de basisregels inzake grammatica van verkleinwoorden uitlegt. Ook worden er semantische specifieken van het gebruik van verkleinwoorden in informele taal vermeld (wat expressiviteit betreft) naast een overzicht van de sociolinguïstische theorieën in termen van genderverschillen. Voorts is er een praktisch hoofdstuk gewijd aan een sociolinguïstisch onderzoek. Het doel hiervan is om de meest opvallende verschillen tussen de woordkeuze en de frequentie van het gebruik van verkleinwoorden van...
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