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The Dark Side of Comicality in the Plays of Jára Cimrman
VITOŇ, Jan
The bachelor thesis will focus on definition and decoding of main elements, that are connected to humor and to concept of comedy as it is. It also strives to capture those elements in creations of the Jára Cimrman Theatre. At the same time it endeavors to befall the elemets, that stand on the opposite pole than the idea of "gentle humor", which is usually highlighted in relation with poetry of said plays (and also with whole work of author Zdeňek Svěrák). The thesis focuses on the means by which is in the comedy of Jára Cimrman Theatre represented female character, character of monster, obscenity, voyeurism and vulgarity. It aims to show that even plays from the pen of Ladislav Smoljak and Zdeněk Svěrák bear in themselves something wicked. Thesis shall as well in a spirit of cultural history ask itself a question about conection between this thematic part with cultural tradition, whose roots are probably in what people admired in 19. century during circus "freak show", during which they were offered a deviant spectacle full of monsters and handicapped people.
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English Vulgarisms in internet communication/Anglické vulgarismy v internetové komunikaci
KŘÍŽ, Vojtěch
This Bachelor's thesis deals with the usage of vulgarisms in the communication of the English-speaking internet. The internet is well known for its very dynamic environment, as well as its many forms of communication. The theoretical part of the thesis deals with specifying the term "taboo language" and its typology. This part also provides a closer look at vulgarisms specifically. The ending of the theoretical part concentrates on introducing the specifics of internet communication. The practical part of the thesis contains a brief overview of the examined websites, and furthermore, it contains the analysis of the internet language of the chosen websites. The collected data are analyzed with the help of a corpus toolbox software #LancsBox. The data is afterwords put into tables and graphs, that show which vulgarisms are used and in what quantities. At the end of this thesis, the analyzed websites are compared in terms of the frequency of using vulgarisms. The thesis analyses when are vulgar expressions used on the internet, and whether they are used more often than in everyday communication.
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The Spanish Insults
Hroudová, Šárka ; Čermák, Petr (advisor) ; Zavadil, Bohumil (referee)
"The Spanish Insults" The objective of the present paper was to explore, as the title indicates, the rich variety of the Spanish insults. We centered mainly on the comparison of the Spanish insults to the Czech insults and observed the diferences and specific characteristics of Spanish insults. We began the first part with the definition of formal and informal language and its sociolects, because we believe that it helps to understand the properties of the insults, since they have many common characteristics with the sociolects. Afterwards, we tried to describe the historical and cultural backgrounds, because due to different evolutions in each country, the habits to use insults and curses are different, especially concerning the curses, which are still very common in Spain. In Czech Republic the curses fell into oblivion during the last century, while the people were becoming more atheistic. The role of taboo is also very important, because in each society, taboo is what's influencing the usage and the importance of every insult. Neverthless, the insults don't serve only for attacking somebody or to show disappointment, but they also have other functions, such as identifying with the members of the group or to address someone in a friendly way. In the practical part, we first described the...
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Translation and Stylistic Analysis of One Chapter of Casualties of Peace by Edna O'Brien
Rusňáková, Adéla ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Pípalová, Renata (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on difficulties encountered when translating English fiction into Czech. It is divided into two sections. The practical part provides the translation of one chapter of the novel Casualties of Peace written by an Irish author Edna O'Brien in 1966. The theoretical part delivers the stylistic analysis including choice of register, morphological, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic aspects. Each of them is illustrated with the commented examples based on theoretical background from works by Jiří Levý, Dagmar Knittlová and Olga Krijtová.
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