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В статье рассматриваются средства репрезентации политического концепта "народ" на материале текстов предвыборного дискурса. The article is devoted to the consideration of the means of representation of the concept "people" in political discourse. The purpose of the article is to systematize and describe these means. The article employs the method of conceptual analysis that involves a comprehensive consideration of the name of the concept - the lexeme "people", and investigates its etymological, semantic, grammatical, and paradigmatic aspects.

The bachelor's thesis called "Role and influence of pre-election polls on the results of Czech legislative election 2010" focuses on the role of the pre-election polls in the period of time before the Czech legislative election in 2010. The results of the election were described as surprising or breakthrough and the pre-election polls were criticised for inaccuracy. In connection with their impact on the election several complaints on incorrect influence of the polls emerged. The first chapter presents types of pre-election polls in the Czech Republic and the second chapter focuses on confrontation of the pre-election polls with the election results - all from a theoretical point of view. The next part of the thesis concentrates on actual 2010 pre-election polls and includes a comparison of the pre-election polls with the election results as well as a description of research practices of public opinion agencies. The last chapter elucidates the reasons of the pre-election polls inaccuracy and analyzes possible influence of pre-election surveys on the election results. The outcome of the thesis is an analysis of 2010 pre-election polls in the Czech Republic and a description of various factors that caused differences between the pre-election poll results and the actual election results.