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The thesis focuses on primary school pupils, specifically on the pupils of the second educational period, whose knowledge and understanding of folk phrasal idioms are examined. The theoretical part of the thesis is devoted to the definition of important terms in the field of phraseology, such as the definition and characteristics of a phrasal idiom, its function, possible ways of phrasal idoms classification and various variants and updates of phrasal idioms. Furthermore, the thesis explores the influence of the social background, from which a pupil comes, on the knowledge of phrasal idioms. The thesis also addresses possible ways how a primary school can influence pupil's knowledge of folk phrasal idioms and understanding them. The practical part of the thesis includes the main survey, where the research method is quantitative. The survey is conducted through open-ended questionnaires. The total number of respondents, who participated in the main survey, is 301. Respondents attend both municipal schools, which are in Prague as well as in other cities, and smaller schools in villages. Based on the analysis of textbooks, it is assumed that pupils have a greater opportunity to encounter folk phrasal idioms than cultural phrasal idioms. For this reason, the practical part of the thesis focuses only on...

Folk songs are a traditional expression of feelings aesthetics of people in a specific country and they are a peculiar proof of the nation itself, but primarily are regarded with musical or historical perspective.The vision of the task is an aspiration to preview of folk songs and their lyrics from a linguistic standpoint of view and to try to create a general characteristics. The content of the theoretical part deals with folk art style and its specific sources,song folklore with its basic elements, the structure of the textual song construction.The theoretical part contains further insight the view into certain thematic areas of linguistic disciplines. It looks at the problematic of phenomena which were found frequently used during folk song analysis.The most frequent phenomena are viewed from individual language points of view. The work contains a chapter on cognitive linguistics, which seems to be a very promising discipline, comes with new research methods and it focuses on the area in which linguistics is interconnected with psychology and culture.It devotes itself to the image of the world that is established in the language consciousness of the certain language speakers.On the basis of the idea is built linguistic view of the soldier with the way, how he is described in the lyrics of folk...

This diploma thesis deals with the written form of communication by users of the social networking website Facebook and members of specified groups. Its aim is to map errors in written expression in the topics of spelling lexicography, morphology and syntactics. In addition it is focused on analysing the extent to which typographical rules are disregarded. These problems were investigated by analysis of the inserted statuses and comments by the members of the selected and specified groups of Facebook. In my research, I found that a large number of the authors made elementary mistakes in spelling that are taught in the first grade of the primary school. Another important discovery is that many users hold the opinion that observing the grammatical rules is less of a priority than the content of their communication.

The diploma thesis deals with a complex research of tomb inscriptions located in cemeteries in micro-region Poličsko. It specifies and characterizes the researched region and defines its history. Besides dealing with an appearance of cemeteries, graves and tombstones all inscriptions are classified by a location on a tombstone and topic. The research also carries out the analysis of their content and introduces quotations from the Bible, extracts of songs and poems, statements of famous people written on tombstones and identifies their sources. Moreover it also analyzes German inscriptions on the graves in the researched field and compares them with the same age Czech inscriptions. My paper presents foreign language inscriptions in original forms, and translates them into Czech language. Last but not least it writes down the tomb inscriptions in their accurate form. KEYWORDS tombstones, inscriptions, Poličsko, cemetries, graves

The main aim of this diploma thesis is to make a contribution to discussion about suitability of using board games in education and to confirm that making use of board games is a valid didactical method used for teaching Czech language. Theoretical part is focused on play and game, making use of games in education, board games, their characteristics, categories, types and utilization in education. Following chapters explore advantages and disadvantages of using board games for teaching Czech which encounter Primary school teachers and contributions of games to devepolment of key competences. Further in the work, an overview/summary of Czech language board games suitable for teaching Czech and available on the Czech market is stated. These games were evaluated according to beforehand set criteria. A collection of my own board games created for needs of Czech language Primary school teachers follows.

The thesis describes all the inscriptions that one can see engraved into the gravestones on current cemeteries in Mikulov. We analyze the first and last names engraved into the gravestones but we focus primarily on epitaphs. In particular, we examine common epitaph themes, the number of their occurrences as well as linguistic errors that the inscriptions contain. In addition, we identify the most commonly quoted passages from the Bible, excerpts of poems, quotes of famous people and the time periods when they were most popular. Last but not least, we explore the symbolism and other nonverbal aspects of the gravestones. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This dissertation primarily describes the origin and development of slang, further it examines the issue of sociolinguistics, it is also concerned in the field of social background of students of primary and secondary schools with regards to slang terminology of these, and it assesses this relationship afterwards. At first, the dissertation acquaints with the development of language as such, consequently discusses standard and non-standard language, and informal language into which argot, professional language and above mentioned slang can be included. Based on this point of view, the piece of work concerns the concept of slang in Czech literature as well as in foreign literature, the constitutive features of slang, the most traditional methods of formatting slang expressions, and it mentions the issue of social dialectology. Besides, the thesis is focused on sociolinguistics' branches, especially it treats sociolinguistics as a science not quite definable. It offers several points of view on the issue of sociolinguistics, it defines the relationship between sociolinguistics and language from the variational linguistics' point of view, introduces the most common sociolinguistic methods and is devoted to theories of Basil Bernstein as well, that inspired it greatly. Based on these points of view the...

The Diploma Thesis called Linguistic Characteristics of Current Production of Cookbooks consists of a theoretical knowledge and a practical analysis. The former deals with basic definitions and brief evolution of the history of Czech cookbooks which introduces the most important authors and publications. Furthermore, this part overviews individual parts of recipes and their diachronic changes. The end of the theoretical section is dedicated to important figures of speech described by the individual linguistic structures (stylistics, syntax, lexicology, morphology). The latter comprises the compilation of two cookbooks published after 1989 - Domácí kuchařka (translation: House Cookbook) and Deník Dity P. (Dita P.'s Diary). The works have been thoroughly chosen to point out the differences in both linguistic and non-linguistic structures. The Thesis tries to prove that, even though cook recipes have very pronounced features that distinguish them from other literary genres, they can also differ significantly from each other. This section includes illustrative pictures for further concretization.

The diploma thesis is focusing on sociolect, specifically on a sociolect of primary school students. The objective of this thesis is to define the term sociolect and sociolect of students, to describe its origin and functioning. This will be verified by factual research. The theorethical part of this study is based on defining the term sociolect and related terms such as standard and non-standard use of the Czech language. This thesis works with specialised literature which is related to sociolect, describes methods of creation of slang expressions and deals with the sociological view on this issue. It also includes descriptions of sociolect of students, its linguistic variations, features, and cathegorizations of expressions. Part of this study is based on questionnaire research, which is supposed to confirm or disprove the premises related to sociolect of students of primary school and a short dictionary, which includes various slang expressions of students in the primary school. KEYWORDS Sociolect, Sociolect of students, primary school aged child, student of primary school, slang, argot, non-standard use of the Czech language.

of thesis children's knowledges of words accociated with Christmas The thesis is concerned with Christmas traditions, particularly from the point of view of children. The thesis presents the evolution of Christmas celebrations, some of the traditions, and it also compares certain Christmas songs and carols, and thus demonstrates the evolution of Christmas related vocabulary. Furthermore, the thesis also presents a brief overview of the evolution of children's vocabulary. In the practical part, the thesis attempts to answer the question of which Christmas related words children aged 9 - 12 years are familiar with. For the purpose of this practical research, the author of the thesis created a questionnaire containing 10 specific Christmas related words that children were asked to explain. The research results show that children seem to have a relatively good passive knowledge of commonly used words associated with Christmas, but in many cases they find it difficult to actively demonstrate this knowledge, i.e. to define, explain those words. In general, the girls describe the meaning of words better than boys. Children attending religious schools have apparently greater knowledge of words associated with religious meaning of Christmas than children from state schools. Comparison of age do not show...

This bachelor thesis deals with specific feature of functional sentence perspective in Czech language of 16th century from the point of view of a contemporary reader. It is divided into two parts, such as theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part focuses on terminological background, which is crucial to know when reading this thesis. There is also a brief history of functional sentence perspective studies in Czech Republic. Other chapter in the theoretical part is also description of Czech language development. It is important to know it because of understanding the tendencies influencing the language in times the translation was written. The practical part targets on finding the specific features in the text with help of manifold examples and suggestions of how it could look today. It focuses on looking up features that could cause understanding or reading trouble to a contemporary reader.

The thesis is focused on comics and mainly its lingustic aspect. The first part introduces comics as a cultural phenomenon and its various definitions from which the best possible is chosen. After that it deals with brief history of comics and its development from different geographic points of view. The attention is given to the language of comics and mainly to its specific, unique cooperation between words and images. In the second part analysis of two comic books, Anča a Pepík from 1990 and Na odstřel from 2014, from Lucie Lomová is realized. The results are compared with each other and conclusions are drawn. The common features of comics language are introduced on the bacground of the analyses.

Communication skill is one of the key competencies that pupils should achieve during the compulsory education. The subject of this work - teaching pragmatic aspects is closely related to communication competence. The thesis focuses on teaching of pragmatic aspects in primary schools. Based on the theoretical literature there are defined basic terms such as cooperative communication, politeness principle, manipulation, argumentation, nonverbal communication and assertiveness. In the practical part the thesis focuses on the analysis of textbooks - how are the pragmatic aspects included in the textbooks. Other part is concerned with the analysis of the survey in which several teachers were asked about how the pragmatic aspects of speech communication are taught and how well is this subject matter mastered by their pupils. The last section includes worksheets, in which the activities are designed to practice examined pragmatic aspects.

Following dissertation deals with the analysis of verbal symbols expressed in two works of Jan Hus: "O poznání cesty pravé k spasení (Dcerka) a Knížky o knězi kuchmistrovi". The first work is based on several manuscripts. The second is preserved in only one old print. This work first introduces the reader to the time of book origin, with charakter and ideas of Jan Hus. After that it is trying to define the term symbol. Each book is analyzed in terms of content and time of occurrence. Author divided symbols into several categories. His work deals with symbolism of characters, animals, body parts and abstract.

7. SUMMARY This diploma thesis The information value and acceptability of forecasting is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. In the theoretical part the forecasting is described as a product of television newscast. I deal with the fact of forecasting entering the media communication. I deal with the information value that forecasts bring and show the way a piece of information is transferred from a producer to an addressee relating to the process of coding and decoding. I describe the acceptability of forecasts and its elements influencing comprehension. In relation to acceptability, textual linguistics is discussed in a separated subchapter. The last theoretical part deals with semiotics and semantics. These disciplines deal mainly with meaning and sings and that is the reason why they are not important only in the theoretical part but also in an analyzing part of this thesis. The analyzing part is based on semiotic survey analysis dealing with individual components of forecasts (visual, audio and audio-visual). The aim of this thesis is to find out which of components of forecasting brings the highest information value to respondents and which is best comprehensible for addressees. The survey results demonstrate that it is the audio forecasting that has a high information value and brings...

Resumé My diploma thesis focuses on the slang of watermen. Slang is considered as a non-literary layer of national language, containing specific words that are used in common, especially informal, communication of people who share the same occupations or interests. The first part introduces the theoretical definitions of slang by prominent Czech linguists and the second part describes the aspects of slang. The third part gives us the characteristic of waterman slang from more points of view - setting, specific activity and collectivity. The fourth part focuses on the creation of words in waterman slang and the fifth part describes its specificity from the language point of view, including the distribution and productivity of individual onomasiological approaches. The last part contains a list of waterman slang words in alphabetical order with their grammar characteristic, meanings, synonyms (if possible) and the way how the word was formed.

1 ABSTRACT The work deals with the analysis of verbal and nonverbal means of advertising messages in files promoting automobiles and banking products and services through printed brochures and company websites. Advertising texts use elements of journalistic, technical, administrative and artistic styles. Persuasive and attracting functions are dominant for them. These are of the verbal means represented primarily by imperatives, adjectives and adverbs in comparatives and superlatives, by a higher frequency of personal, possessive and totalizing pronouns. Lexically the functions of texts are supported primarily by vocabulary with positive expressivity and terminology of respective field. Enumerations, rhetorical questions, higher splitting of text and placing of persuading means into the rheme of the message are syntactically relevant. These features are also supported by repetition and combination of these means. Of the nonverbal means composition of individual elements within the advertising area, particularly the location of the product and company name, logo, slogan, ratio and layout of text and visual elements, play an important role. Above specified means and combinations thereof can be understood as a strategy of advertising message. Cognitive or affective strategies supported by an appeal to...

This work deals with an analysis of the article "Kdo neskáče, není Češka. Hop, hop, hop aneb jak fandí ženy". The whole article is analysed in terms of syntactical, lexical, morphological, acoustic and graphic aspect of language, and also in terms of pragmatic and stylistic aspect. Syntactical analysis deals with an analysis of composed sentences and simple sentences. Lexical analysis researches the words in terms of frequency of use, according to their inclusion to the linguistic structure of national language and their inclusion to stylistic stratum, then according to their origin and emotional coloration, and it also distinguishes new and outdated words and researches the word formation. Morphological analysis deals with word classes and word structure. Acoustic aspect of language researches individual speech sounds and graphic aspect researches the orthography. In pragmatic analysis is researched the intension of author and effect of the text. And stylistic analysis arranges the text to functional styles.

The diploma thesis deals with sociolect of mothers on babywebs, its objective was to analyze this sociolect. The research was mainly focused on the analysis of a lexical part of discussions of selected babywebs. In the theoretical part we tried to give a chronological overview of Czech linguists' theories about sociolects, the analyzed sociolect is specified on the background of these theories. At the beginning of the empirical part, the analyzed sociolect is characterized from the point of view of setting, group of users and their special activity, then the thematically sorted list of collected sociolectisms and word-formation processes are presented. The following chapter deals with the specifics of the analyzed sociolect which contain the theme of writing and speaking, expressivity, acronyms, shifts of grammatical categories and comparison with the medical sociolect. The empirical part also includes questionnaire research with the aim of discovering whether the selected expressions appear out of the internet as well or whether those expressions are fixed to the internet setting. The following part of the thesis is crucial, it is the dictionary part that contains alphabetically ordered expressions of the sociolect of mothers on babywebs including acronyms and deminutives that are semantically specified...

14. Summary This Bachelor Thesis focuses on the names of streets and squares of Prague 6. In the first few chapters, the author describes the history of street naming in general from 1770 until 2013. Furthermore, the work addresses the main reasons for renaming streets in Prague 6, which are mostly based on historical and/or social events and changes in the scope of Prague territory. The central part of this thesis contains the current list of streets and squares of Prague 6 accompanied by information about particular name changes occuring during the 20th and 21st century. The total of 662 streets and squares is arranged in alphabetical order according to their affiliation to various parts of the Prague 6 municipality. Additionally, streets are classified by naming motivation into several categories, which further discuss the origin of the names and their lexical form. The results showed that the street names of Prague 6 are mostly in nominative or genitive form and the most common motivation for their naming follows from the street location. The research carried out by the means of questionnaires shows that the most popular unofficial name used in Prague 6 is "Kulaťák" (replacing the official name Vítězné náměstí). Besides, the questionnaire revealed a few dozens of other popular colloquial street names....

The topic of this thesis is the linguistic analysis of the Apollonius of Tyre novel contained in the Pinvicka collection, which comes from the second half of the 15th century. During the creation of the thesis is used especially the qualitative textual analysis, which is in the major part of the thesis supplemented by the quantitative statistical analysis. Opening parts of the thesis represent general information about the Pinvicka collection, in which is contained the analysed literary landmark, and about the literary landmark itself. Follows the detailed analysis of the orthography and of all linguistic layers, i.e. phonology, morphology, syntax and word formation. Every linguistic layer and the orthography are elaborated in a separate chapter. At the end of each chapter is the summary of the achieved results, which includes also charts and tables. In the chapter, which is devoted to the orthography, is primarily payd attention to the speech sounds, for which is typical disunited way of transcript. In the phonological part are treated phonic changes, which are realized in the text. The morphological part of the thesis is concerned with representation of word classes and particulary with grammatical cathegories of nouns and verbs. In the chapter, which treats syntactic plane, are analysed compound...

The thesis focuses on verbal formulation of ecclesiastical and social symbols in two extant versions of the Old Czech play Mastičkář, in the museum version and in the version known as drkolenská. Both records originated in the 14th century. The former is probably from the first half of the century, the latter from thirteen sixties to thirteen eighties, but they are both transcriptions of older texts. Initially readers are acquainted with editions of the ancient text and then it is put into context of the medieval drama. Genesis and development of the scene ensued with the three disputes related to the work: the dispute over the authenticity of museum version, the dispute over the relation between the Old Czech Mastičkář and German Easter plays, and the dispute over the origin of Mastičkář. The author assorted the symbols into several categories. In her work she focuses on the symbolism of characters and their names, the symbolism of toponyms, animals, flowers, bodies and their parts, dishes and beverages, tools and numbers. At symbol's interpretation general meaning of symbol is defined first, then the symbol's meaning in the work is given and in the end attention is paid to the verbal formulation with focus on the word's morphological characteristics - on its basis the author asserts, that the...

This work deals with speech of the tourist guide from the point of view of individual linguistics levels. This topic was chosen because the author of this work studied tourism at secondary school and she has personal experience with the job of tourist guide. Second reason is the fact that this topic has not been described in details yet. Beside the activity of tourist guide and his/her nonverbal communication, this work deals with his/her speech from the point of view of five linguistics levels - phonetic/phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic and stylistic one. For their analysis four video-records were used. There is real speech of four tourist guides at castles on these videos. The result of this work is the formulation of specific features of speech of the tourist guide. There are several points added to these features. These points are about recommendation for each tourist guide and his/her right and effective speech.

The subject of this thesis is the in time variability of sport slang, namely from the environment of volleyball. In Západočeská vlastivěda devoted to language from 1992 I found a study by Marie Terčová focused on sport slang. Slang of sport shooting and volleyball are compared there. The study also includes a dictionary of volleyball slang from 1987 comprising about 444 entries. I decided to compare the vocabulary of 1987 and contemporary. It was necessary to gather the expressions used by contemporary speakers to contemporary dictionary and then compare the two of them. The initial hypotheses were a higher number of expressions in the older dictionary and also higher number of synonymy expressions, changes in the meanings of many of words. Next hypotheses were a higher concentration of borrowed words in the contemporary dictionary and the majority of transpositional mechanisms in the creation of expressions. The last hypothesis was, that the meaning of the expressions occurring in the older dictionary only, are unknown to contemporary speakers. The former four were discussed by the comparison, the last one by a questionnaire.

TITLE: Sports slang AUTHOR: Adéla Králová DEPARTMENT: Department of Czech language SUPERVISOR: PhDr. Olga Palkosková, Ph.D. ABSTRACT: Bachelor thesis is focused on sports slang, especially on football, table tennis and volleyball slang. The purpose of the thesis is introducing specifics sports slang and demonstrate on specific examples. The first part points out theoretical thesis about slang and its problems. Second part engage sports slang, especially his concrete specifics, including slangs features that are mention in the first part of thesis. Another part of the thesis includes evaluation of questionnaires and dictionaries of three selected sports. Supplement contains list of collected nicknames, chart of nickname types, the number of nicknames and questionnaire of sports slang. This thesis is based on methods of interview, observation, excerpt and questionnaires. KEY WORDS: Slang Sports slang Slang of football Slang of table tenis Slang of volleyball

Our thesis deals with a communication on social network Facebook. The primary goal was a probe of chat communication on this new platform. In the introduction part, we tried to summarize existing knowledges of czech linguist scientists concerning with electronic communication; subsequently, we focused on a definition of internet communication, it's classification, positive and negative aspects and description of particular types of "computer communication". Simultaneously, we were exploring so called social network, predominantly Facebook, it's basic functions, possible ways of communication mediated by this medium and particularities of chat in comparison with a synchronous webchat. Research part analyze chat communication on Facebook from wider standpoint of communication situation and from point of view of text structure. It was an effort to compare chat and immediate spoken dialog, to classify and to interpret basic type sof chat communication and to describe it's specific features. Conclusion of the paper is dedicated to irony on Facebook - classification of it's particular types and following of it's making and signalizing were based on analysis. We tried to point out especially the particularities of chat communication and it's connection with a spoken dialog.

in English This thesis is a language analysis of the following books: Sladká jak krev and Psí zima written by Petra Neomillnerová and Zlatý kříž and Beton, kosti a sny from Pavel Renčín. Biggest emphasis is placed on the use of the wordage. It throughly describes use of slang, prefessionalism and professional terminology from different enviroments. Further it deals with comparisons, expresions, less traditional word-stock procedures, stylistical peculiarities and other problematics. Examined language phenomenon is always clarified in each chapter. It's occurence and significance is documented with numerous quotations from the above mentioned books. Author's intentions is to demonstrate the richness of language in czech fantasy literature.

The purpose of this thesis is to describe legal language, its basic elements and relations, in which they are entering. The introductory chapter defines the legal language in general as a discipline at the interface between linguistics and theory of law. In addition to the basic legal elements and their relations to the general official language, there are described the basic elements of the legal language out of whose structure some basic elements required on the legal language come out. The relation between and legal language is symbolised through Euler circles. The conclusion of this chapter describes the legal language in terms of functional style and presents its stylistic traits. The first two parts of the second chapter are focused on the meaning of the lexical element, that are evaluated according to the amount of autonomy as a autosemantic and synemenatic units, or according to the motivating factor of the word and according to the fact if they are composed of one or more lexical elements . The keeping up with the basic requirements that are established by the Government's Legislative Rules, is proved with examples from primary legislation. In the other subchapters adherence to claim to the legal text certainty, comprehensibility and expliciteness in the legal terminology in the using of...