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Functions of Passive Voice Structures in Various Genres of ESP compared with Czech Language Use.
Zemánek, Dominik ; Ellederová, Eva (referee) ; Baumgartnerová, Alena (advisor)
Tato práce popisuje pasivní konstrukce a jejich tvoření, význam, použití a funkce na základě rešerše související literatury. Trpný rod a s ním související změna slovosledu dávají autorům více možností uspořádání textu a zároveň umožňují zdůraznit, či naopak vynechat některá slova. To může především ve vědeckém a administrativním stylu pomoci soustředit pozornost čtenáře na popisované téma, což činí text neosobním a věcným. Jednotlivé rysy pasivních konstrukcí jsou popsány z pohledu gramatiky, sémantiky, stylistiky a překladu a jejich používání v češtině je také vysvětleno a porovnáno s angličtinou. Následně je charakterizována angličtina pro specifické účely a poslední kapitola pak analyzuje četnost a funkce trpného rodu v technických textech tří různých žánrů. To má za úkol potvrdit a znázornit rozdíly mezi danými žánry i jazyky, jelikož je každý anglický text porovnán s podobným českým textem.
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Reflexive verbs versus reflexive passive voice
VAŇKOVÁ, Michaela
This thesis is going to focus on the topic of reflexive verbs and reflexive passive voice, and it is going to clearly and comprehensively show that not all the reflexive forms are to be considered passive: reflexive verb forms are homonymous, therefore they can express both the active and passive voice. The thesis' aim is to describe the development of the view of this matter in Czech linguistics from the 1960's (Stručná mluvnice česká: Havránek-Jedlička) up until to the current grammar books.
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Užívání pasiva v ekonomických textech
VETRÁKOVÁ, Petra
The topic of this thesis was the use of the passive voice in texts on economics. English articles from the magazines Czech Business Weekly were chosen and compared with their Czech translations. The texts were analyzed, the rationale for the use of the passive voice described and possible ways to translate the passive voice into Czech discussed. The thesis was divided into two parts, theory and practice. In the theoretical part the passive voice was described from the linguistic point of view, especially its possible forms and constraints which occur in Czech and English. Additional theoretical topics included ways of expressing an agent, the functions of the passive voice, how to translate the passive and the frequency of passives within economics writings. The practical part analyzed the articles in terms of frequency of the passive voice, its most commonly used forms and how the agent was expressed or not expressed. Theoretical reasons why translators used the passive or active voice were discussed.
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Functions of Passive Voice Structures in Various Genres of ESP compared with Czech Language Use.
Zemánek, Dominik ; Ellederová, Eva (referee) ; Baumgartnerová, Alena (advisor)
Tato práce popisuje pasivní konstrukce a jejich tvoření, význam, použití a funkce na základě rešerše související literatury. Trpný rod a s ním související změna slovosledu dávají autorům více možností uspořádání textu a zároveň umožňují zdůraznit, či naopak vynechat některá slova. To může především ve vědeckém a administrativním stylu pomoci soustředit pozornost čtenáře na popisované téma, což činí text neosobním a věcným. Jednotlivé rysy pasivních konstrukcí jsou popsány z pohledu gramatiky, sémantiky, stylistiky a překladu a jejich používání v češtině je také vysvětleno a porovnáno s angličtinou. Následně je charakterizována angličtina pro specifické účely a poslední kapitola pak analyzuje četnost a funkce trpného rodu v technických textech tří různých žánrů. To má za úkol potvrdit a znázornit rozdíly mezi danými žánry i jazyky, jelikož je každý anglický text porovnán s podobným českým textem.
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Toby's Room by Pat Barker - the translation and stylistic analysis of three chapters of the novel
Matyášová, Jana ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Červinková Poesová, Kristýna (referee)
The main aim of this bachelor thesis is to point out the most frequent problems the translators tackle during the translation from the English to the Czech language. This work is divided into two parts. The first one involves my translation of the first three chapters of the novel Toby's Room written by the English author Pat Barker. The second section, the theoretical one, is devoted to the analysis of the translation and particularly to the most common translation difficulties springing from morphological, syntactic and stylistic differences between the two languages mentioned above. The analysis of this part is based on the quotes from the theoretical literature, especially from works by J. Levý, Z. Kuffnerová and D. Knittlová, and shows to what extent the first part of the work follows the translation methods recommended by these authors.
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Effectiveness of teaching the English passive voice in distance learning at an upper-secondary school
Dobrylovská, Klára ; Mikuláš, Martin (advisor) ; Uličná, Klára (referee)
The diploma thesis investigates the measurable progress in the ability of upper-secondary school students to form and use the passive voice after having been exposed to two online lessons on this grammar item. The theoretical part describes distance education, its varieties, and the tools that are assumed to make it effective. The empirical part of the thesis is based on the analysis of the two online lessons,the analysis of the students' development based on short pre- and post-tests developed to evaluate the students' knowledge, and an interview with two of the students.The thesis will attempt to reach a conclusion on whether there is a measurable development in students' understanding of the subject matter when taught in an online environment.The thesis proved that despite the distance form of education of the two lessons, the acquisitionof the grammar item was successful.
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Passive in Legal language in German and Czech. Contrastive analysis
Pekárková, Ludmila ; Zeman, Dalibor (advisor) ; Martschini, Elisabeth (referee)
The presented diploma thesis is concerned with German-Czech comparison of the passive voice in legal language. In the theoretical part, the issue of German and Czech passive voice is explained through technical secondary literature. One can find there their basic forms differentiation, the way of their formation, their use in sentences and other basic characteristics. Furthermore, this part introduces the issue of technical language as the current area of today's linguistics. The theoretical findings are employed in the practical part, namely on the Maastricht contract. Firstly, the passive of the German variant of the document is analyzed followed by the analysis of the Czech version. Both of these parts are the starting point of the contrasting exploration of the two language varieties of the mentioned legal document. Czech alternatives to their German passive voice constructions were found, following these three criteria: substitution of German passive voice by Czech active voice, semantic dissonance between the two variants, and the absence of certain passive constructions in the Czech contract. At the end of the thesis, there is an evaluation of the following four hypotheses which were stated at the beginning. The first three hypotheses, which are concerned with matters such as the superiority...
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Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice - the translation and stylistic analysis of one chapter
Dušková, Hana ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Grmela, Josef (referee)
The main aim of this bachelor thesis is to point out the most common problems that the translators from English to Czech may encounter, exemplified by real solutions in the proces of translating modern fiction. This work consists of two parts. The theoretical part of is the the actual translation of one chapter of the novel The Vampire Lestat by american author Anne Rice. The theoretical part contains the stylistic analysis of the translated text and it is aimed at the probles I have encountered while translating the text. I am commenting on the technique that I have chosen on the basis of the translation theories, particularly those by Jiří Levý, Dagmar Knittlová and Zlata Kufnerová.
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Explicit and implicit means of reference to the general human agent in English and Czech
Machová, Kateřina ; Dušková, Libuše (advisor) ; Popelíková, Jiřina (referee)
The subject of this thesis is the analysis and comparison of explicit and implicit means of reference to the general human agent in English and in Czech. In these languages we may find both explicit and implicit means which are used to refer to the general human agent and which are identical to a certain degree. However, especially among the implicit means we may observe rather different structures in both languages. This thesis analyses two sets of data - the excerpts from two English novels with their Czech translations and two Czech novels with their English translations. The total number of examples excerpted is 200, each example being considered with its translation to the other language. The source language of this study is English for which a set of particular explicit and implicit means which we focus on in this analysis was defined. For this reason, also in the case of the Czech originals the examples were excerpted from the English translations and their Czech original versions were found. The samples obtained from both the sets of data were further compared and the analysed means were divided into three groups - instances where the means in English and in Czech were identical, instances where the means were nonidentical and instances where the reference to the general human agent was...
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Toby's Room by Pat Barker - the translation and stylistic analysis of three chapters of the novel
Matyášová, Jana ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Červinková Poesová, Kristýna (referee)
The main aim of this bachelor thesis is to point out the most frequent problems the translators tackle during the translation from the English to the Czech language. This work is divided into two parts. The first one involves my translation of the first three chapters of the novel Toby's Room written by the English author Pat Barker. The second section, the theoretical one, is devoted to the analysis of the translation and particularly to the most common translation difficulties springing from morphological, syntactic and stylistic differences between the two languages mentioned above. The analysis of this part is based on the quotes from the theoretical literature, especially from works by J. Levý, Z. Kuffnerová and D. Knittlová, and shows to what extent the first part of the work follows the translation methods recommended by these authors.
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