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So-called folk linguistics, i.e. folk beliefs concerning language, may be a valuable source of information for various linguistic fields and for practical applications, e.g. in teaching practice. The author presents an analysis of folk linguistics as it can be reconstructed from Internet discussions by Czechspeaking women (especially mothers). The results show that the folk theory of language and its use is quite complex, with multiple connections to a scientific theory of language (probably acquired through school education) and with important evaluative features (including e.g. folk theories of correctness and errors). The author proposes a new Czech term (laická jazykověda) and suggests that the theory should be seen as dynamic (e.g. changing over time and during speakers’ lives) and structured (e.g. consisting of a centre and peripheries and containing several “layers” of shared sub-theories).

Slovesa typu jít/chodit, běžet/běhat, nést/nosit atd., obvykle označovaná jako slovesa pohybu, poutají opakovaně pozornost badatelů a badatelek zabývajících se slovanskými jazyky. Důvodem je především to, že tato slovesa se chovají v mnohém jinak než „běžná” slovesa nedokonavá. Dosavadní analýzy uvedených českých sloves využívají zejména metody funkčně-strukturní a každý z typů (typ jít i typ chodit) se snaží popsat pomocí minimálního počtu obvykle velmi abstraktních rysů. V této práci se autorka pokouší – s využitím kognitivního přístupu k jazyku – ukázat „významy” obou typů sloves jako uspořádané a vzájemně propojené struktury. The author carries out an analysis of the Czech verbs of movement, such as: jít/chodit, běžet/běhat, nést/nosit etc. with the use of cognitive methods of linguistics. She investigates different uses of a particular verb which form a radial structure of the prototype. This enables to allocate the particular “knots” which are also characterized by the radial structure. The author concludes that semantic structures, of the analyzed by her verbs, coincide with several semantic fields.

Present diploma thesis deals with pronunciation specifics in Czech of adult speakers whose mother tongue is Vietnamese. It is based on the assumption of the influence of Vietnamese as a mother tongue on the pronunciation of Czech as a second/foreign language. In the theoretical part there is a description of the phonetic aspect of both languages, especially with regard to their differences. On the basis of the given comparison and derivation of differences on the phonetic level, the author determines the expected pronunciation deviations, i.e. potential interference features in Czech. The practical part of the work is the analysis of audio recordings of Czech by adult Vietnamese speakers (4 people), which will be taken for the purposes of the thesis. The recording consists of a short interview and a read text. Part of the experiment will be the creation of a perception test from speech samples of Vietnamese speakers, which will be assessed by native Czech speakers in terms of intelligibility and the level of effort expended to understand the speech.

The goal of this thesis is to describe teachers' communication with toddlers and pre- schoolers from mono- and bilingual families in Montessori schools or schools inspired by the Montessori method. The thesis consists of two parts. The first part is theoretical and contains chapters on children's communication and communication with children, its forms and specific aspects; language and language acquisition, bilingualism, the founder of Montessori education, the Montessori education per se and communication with children according to its principles. The second part is practical and presents an analysis of the pragmatic component of teachers' communication with children through audio recordings or hand-written notes taken during participant observation. It focuses on the characteristics and specific features of teachers' communication with children in Montessori pre- schools. It includes the description of communication environment which complements the teachers' communication with children. It also contains semi-structured interviews with teachers and photographs in the attachment.

(anglicky) This bachelor's thesis deals with the language of Czech YouTubers in selected storytime videos. The aim of the thesis is to describe the linguistic means used in six audiovisual recordings of Czech female creators, to characterize the differences in the language of individual age categories and to verify the established hypothesis. The theoretical part of the work is dedicated to online social networks, the YouTube platform, its users, as well as production and spoken communication with consideration of internet communication. The analytical part of the work contains the methodology, an approach to the researched material and its selection criteria. Furthermore, it contains analyses of the language of selected speeches and interpretation of the ascertained results.

The submitted diploma degree thesis deals with the development of pre-reading literacy in family environment. The aim of this thesis is to find out which ideas about developing early reading skills parents have and how they build pre-reading skills in their children. The thesis is also focused on parent-child communication and child's vocabulary. The theoretical part defines basic terms relevant to the topic of reading and literacy. It offers characteristics of a pre-school child and his development in areas which are related to pre-reading literacy. The particularization of the term of pre-reading literacy and activities supporting literacy skills are presented as well.It defines the concept of family communication and child-directed speech. The final chapter of the theoretical part describes previous research that has been conducted in this field in the past. The theoretical part of the thesis is based on the study of research literature and crucial research. The practical part is devoted to an empirical study. It consists of five case studies which are focused on the analysis of video recordings connected to the development of pre-reading literacy in family environment. The video recordings were anonymized and, with slight deviations, transcribed according to the CHAT system, which is a part of...

76 Abstract The thesis deals with the relationship between verbal and nonverbal communication in the speeches of Czech as a foreign language teachers, with an emphasis on nonverbal means, especially gestures and facial expressions. The analysis focuses on the verbal and nonverbal means by which teachers fulfill selected communication/pedagogical intentions and implement activities such as interpreting the material, practicing, instructing students or providing feedback, and the relationship between different types of means in different communication situations. The basic material of the analysis are video recordings of the teachers' speech in the teaching of Czech as a foreign language for adults obtained during the internships of students in the field of Teaching Czech as a Foreign Language. The results of the analysis confirmed that the teachers use deictic, illustrative and also symbolic gestures in selected recordings. Key words: Czech as a foreign language, nonverbal communication, verbal communication

KEY WORDS Down syndrome, Language, Verbal Communication, Non-verbal Communication, Intellectual Disability, Bilingualism Homolková, Kamila (2021). Process of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication of a Child with Down Syndrome [dissertation thesis]. Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic), Faculty of Arts, Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication. ABSTRACT This dissertation thesis focuses on the process of development of verbal and nonverbal communication of a child with the Down syndrome. Its goal is to analyse, how language and speech are acquired in this atypically developing child, and on this base, supported by findings from previous published research, to describe the acquisition of all language levels - semantics, comprehension, pragmatics, and nonverbal means of communication. One part of this thesis is formed by an analysis of the bilingual (Czech and German) situation of the child. The main method employed is a longitudinal observation of early communication behaviour of the child (in the age from 24 to 48 months) and an analysis of video recordings; the parents' diaries are used as well.

Anna Jagošová, Současný dětský folklor Abstract The diploma thesis deals with the current form of children's verbal folklore. It focuses specifically on children's games, , taunts and marginally rhymes and songs with a steady and mostly rhyme structure. The aim of this thesis is to compare the expression of current children's verbal folklore with the expression of traditional children's verbal folklore. Describe their characteristics and compare with the already proposed categorization (Jelínková, 1952, Tucker, 2008), or eventually propose own categorization, and primarily to analyze the expression of children's verbal folklore in terms of the Czech language. Attention will be also paid to the context of children's folklore expressions in the school environment, whether as part of teaching or a leisure activity. The diploma thesis aims to follow current (and traditional) children's folklore interdisciplinary insert of Czech studies and ethnology. Due to ongoing exceptional situation related to Covid - 19 pandemic which limits the possibilities of field research, the main starting material is the already existing collections of children's folklore, especially sources published in books (eg. Votruba 2009 and Votruba 2010), and internet resources. These should be presented in the thesis as a new field for...

(in English) The aim of this diploma thesis is focused on observation of communication behaviour between the teacher and pupils with autistic disorder spectrum and mental disability from the special primary school. The research is based on the analysis of audio recordings of verbal communication of pedagogical team and pupils. The nonverbal phenomena of this communication which were recorded by researcher is appended to this analysis. The thoretical part consists the information of mental disability and its etiology and classification as well as the information of autistic disorder spectrum and its etiology, classification and characteristic problematic domains. The most comprehensive part of this thesis deals with disruption of communication between children with autistic disorder spectrum. I also describe the pedagogical communication on the special primary school. The experimental part consists the analysis of communication behaviour of the teachers and pupils with mental disability and autistic disorder spectrum which was observed during five lessons of language education. The research also consists the analysis of two works heets which were worked out by pupils with autistic disorder spectrum and mental disability.

The submitted bachelor's thesis focuses on communication between and scout leaders and between children in the scout unit. The theoretical part of the thesis presents concepts related to communication and communication with children in leisure time. This part is mainly based on the study of scientific literature. In the second, practical, part it is analysed how the communication in the scout unit is reflected by the leaders of scout units. The material for data collection is semi-structured interviews with selected leaders. The research participants agreed to record interviews for the purposes of this bachelor's thesis. Participation in the research was voluntary.

The present thesis is devoted to the lexical acquisition of bilingual speakers in their first language, specifically Russian-speaking individuals living in the Czech Republic. The aim of the thesis is to follow up on previous foreign and Czech studies, focusing on the lexical acquisition of bilingual speakers. Such lexical acquisition is slower in their first language than the acquisition of comparable monolingual individuals. In the theoretical part, the thesis discusses the concepts of bilingualism, lexical deficit and language dominance, and presents an analysis of several recent foreign and Czech studies on the topic of lexical acquisition of bilingual speakers. In next part, we introduce the Russian-speaking community in the Czech Republic and the speech behaviour of this minority in the Czech Republic. The core of the thesis is a sophisticated experimental research design, which includes a verbal fluency test, a picture naming task and a questionnaire survey. The pre- survey for the picture naming task was conducted with participation of 243 respondents whose mother tongue is Russian. The output of the paper is a design of an experiment that can be followed up by further research. Keywords bilingualism, lexical acquisition, linguistic dominance, Russian-speaking community in the Czech Republic

The thesis focuses on an analysis of oral expression and methods of narration of Czech-English bilingual children in the age of 8-10 years. The children who became the subjects of the study are children living in the UK who have one or both parents Czech native speakers. Czech is used to varying degrees in the family communication of these children. The aim of the thesis is to map the means of expression and methods used in the narration and the specifics of the oral production of bilingual speakers. The theoretical part of the thesis is based on the analysis of professional literature, the core of the research part is the collected data in the form of audio recordings of pupils of the 3rd year of Czech School Manchester. The children told stories on the basis of the presented visual support in the form of pictures, in both Czech and English. The acquired recordings were subsequently analysed in terms of morphological, syntactic, lexical and other phenomena related to bilingualism. The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) was used to analyse the narrative structure. The result of the case study is a summary of the tendencies that could be observed within the collected material.

This bachelor's thesis focuses on communication of children of older school age with autism spectrum disorder. The first part of the thesis, the theoretical part, introduces basic concepts related to autism spectrum disorder and its types and is based on information from scientific literature. The second part of the thesis, the analytical part, presents the analysis of communication of two children of older school age with autism spectrum disorder and the comparison of their communication. The analysis is based on semi-structured interviews with children and is focused on typical features of communication of the children on individual language levels. Children's legal representatives gave an informed consent that the interviews may be recorded and used anonymously as data for the bachelor's thesis. Keywords Autism spectrum disorder, older school-age, Czech, communication

This thesis aims to analyze verbal communication between teachers and students in Czech language lessons at secondary schools. It focuses on dialogue. The thesis in the theoretical part summarizes the relevant existing knowledge about school communication. It focuses on the verbal communication of teachers and students and deals with the typical communication structure used in school teaching. Information from the theoretical part of the thesis is also confronted with the main conclusions of the practical part of the thesis. The practical part of the thesis analyzes communication in Czech language lessons, based on five recordings of communication between teachers and students at secondary schools. The thesis analyzes and characterizes verbal communication of teachers and students during the lesson and deals with the communication structure that appears in these lessons - questions from teachers, answers of students and feedback from teachers. The individual lesson analyzes are finally compared.

The presented thesis focuses on garden-path sentence processing in Czech and follows the line of research within the good-enough approach to language comprehension. Some studies within this framework suggest that, after a garden-path sentence is reanalysed, a full and complete syntactic representation is formed, but the system fails to prune the initial misanalysis completely (Slattery et al., 2013; Qian et al., 2017). However, the research of garden-path sentences within the good-enough approach stems from a limited number of syntactic structures. This thesis presents a series of three self-paced reading experiments employing open-ended comprehension questions that aim to test if the conclusions of Slattery et al. (2013) can also be applied to syntactic structures that have not yet been examined within this framework, namely senteces such as "Roztržitý kastelán zamkl průvodkyni na nádvoří koloběžku.". The results are only partially in accordance with the hypothesis. The lingering misanalysis effect was shown only for the sentences with an animate object (these sentences were generally harder to process). Sentences with an inanimate object, that are easier to analyse, show no difference in response accuracy in comparison with similar unambiguous sentences. Keywords: garden-path sentences,...

The aim of this Master thesis is to present language situation in relation to mother tongue of students of Czech school without borders (abbreviated as CSBH Paris). The thesis is divides into two parts -theoretical and practical. In the first part, we define terms such as mother tongue, the first language and the second (foreign) language. This thesis deal with bilingualism and multilingualism, which are important for determination of the target group of pupils of the CSBH Paris. With use of questionnaires applied on students and parents we can determine specific czech-french bilingualism of students of CSBH Paris. In the second part we analyze educational materials - textbooks that are used by teachers at CSBH Paris, and at the end we get to the subject of your practical research, outline specific teaching methods and design teaching materials that can be used in Czech language classes with regard to linguistic reality of pupils in the second grade of the Czech School without borders Paris. Key words: mother tongue, bilingualism, curriculum, Czech school without borders, teaching materials, textbooks

This bachelor thesis studies child (1-3 years old.) directed speech by Czech-speaking grandparents. Part of this thesis is self-conducted research revolving around a case study of a child and his grandparents, accompanied by a semi-structured interview with the grandparents. The thesis also offers a summary of pre-existing research done in the field of child directed speech that also serves as a basis for proposed hypotheses tested during the self-conducted research. Selected studies were mostly focused on child directed speech by parents. The aim of this study is to analyze the record of communication between grandparent and grandchild. Transcribed data from recordins are available in attachments. Then, there is a comparison of our results with the results of similar studies. The analysis contains a basic characterization of the data, grammar, lexical and pragmatics analysis. Emphasis is put on the lexical analysis, which is focused on diminutives, nouns, and nouns denoting animals. There is studied the phenomenon of shifts in pronominal and verbal person within the grammar analysis. The pragmatics analysis is focused on questions. The results of the analysis show that most phenomena occur to a similar extent in child directed speech by parents and in the speech of grandparents in communication...

The aim of this thesis is the analysis of communication in private tutoring of the Czech language (especially the analysis of communication of lecturers). The analysis is based on five recordings of private tutoring. The thesis in the theoretical part summarizes the existing knowledge about private tutoring and about communication in school, such as verbal and nonverbal communication of teachers and of students or typical communication structure used in school education. In the practical part, the thesis analyzes the communication in private tutoring in the Czech language based on recordings of lecturers and their students visiting the second primary school level or similar years of multi-year grammar school. The thesis according to the analyzed material describes verbal and nonverbal communication of lecturers and students in private tutoring, then focuses on communication structure in private tutoring, i. e. questions of lecturers, student answers and feedback of lecturers. Knowledge about communication in private tutoring is then compared with communication in school. In the end, the thesis focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of online form of private tutoring based on analyzed recordings and interviews with lecturers.

The suggested project is patterned on the need to learn more about the development of narration skills in children of later school age. The goal of this project is to research written narration in formal school environments so as to lead towards a more efficient, purposeful development of communication competence in children, and to contribute to other research in the field of language development.

The aim of this thesis is to verify sentence imitation as a clinical marker of specific language impairment while controlling memory and morphological richness account as an explanation of problems with acquisition of grammatical markers in preschool children with SLI (basis of these assumptions is explained in the theoretical part of this work). The practical part of this thesis is based on the existing research in Hungarian (Leonard et al., 2009). In contrast to results in Hungarian research the support of morphological richness account is only limited in Czech. Children with SLI were as accurate as younger typically developing children in completions of target forms of verbs and nouns, while completions of target verbs were more successful than completions of target nouns. Near miss errors were prevalent, but not without exception, and relationship between substitutions and frequency in non near-miss errors was not proved. The sentence imitation turned out as a good clinical marker of SLI.

This thesis studies the style of contemporary advertisement and advertising texts published on the internet. The theoretical part is focused on theory and function of advertisement. It describes the specifics of each type of advertising and proposes several classification options. It also presents the dynamic internet environment with typical features. The last section of the theoretical part is devoted to the language and style of advertising texts and the commonly used linguistic aspects and stylistic devices. The practical part deals with examples of real contemporary advertisements published on the internet; the texts are analyzed to find answers to three research questions. The first concerns features which ads use to engage recipient's interest. The output is a table containing an overview of all identified features and their frequency according to the form of advertising. The second research question focuses on persuasive means that advertisements use according to their function. The third part is devoted to linguistic and stylistic features typical for certain target groups. Results of the analysis and the success evaluation are summarized at the end of the thesis. Keywords: advertising text, language of advertisements, style of advertisements, advertisement on the internet, contemporary...

This bachelor's thesis deals with communication strategies in original Czech videos on YouTube. The aim of this thesis is to analyse means of language and language procedures used in communication especially for influencing. The aim is also to identify fields which are targeted by the influence. The correlation of communication strategies in the given area and reflection of them by a group of adolescents from 11 to 18 years of age is part of this research. A transcript of the introduction and conclusions of seven selected videos was prepared for the analysis of communication strategies. Reflection of researched group is obtained by a semi- structured questionnaire. Its results are discussed with the results of video analysis. Our research has discovered that means of language and language procedures are selected to develop the YouTube community. This is usually positively reflected by studied group. The main contribution of this work is a basic insight into the issue of influencing adolescents by original YouTube videos. Based on the results, other topics suitable for more detailed research are suggested.

The master's thesis deals with didactic games in teaching Czech for schoolchildren with a different mother tongue. The aim of the thesis is a set of didactic games which is divided to three parts: pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Firstly, the cognitive and language development of schoolchildren are characterised, primarily in relation to game. Afterwards, there are described game and its characteristics at schoolchildren. It is defined as a part of teaching methods and put into context of teaching foreign languages. The master's thesis theoretically deals with the situational sylabus which was created for the practical part. The games, which are introduced in the practical part of thesis, are adaptations of games intended for different school subjects. These games were pre-tested by group of schoolchildren, they were changed on the basis of teacher's feedback if needed and then made to methodical description.

The thesis deals with the subject of semantics of colours in the Czech folk texts using theoretical and methodological framework of culturally oriented and cognitive approaches to language. In order to contribute to the research of the colour domain in linguistic picture of the world in Czech, semantic structure of colour concepts is examined using qualitative analysis of the occurrences excerpted from the corpora of the selected compilations of folk songs of the 19th century. The topic of radiance and visual salience of colours and their manifestations in the source material is discussed as well. Furthermore, the thesis examines if conclusions concerning the usage of colour terms in folk texts drawn by the studies based on the folklore of other Slavic languages can be applicable to the Czech material.

The thesis deals with the communication of children with Tourette's syndrome. The first part of the thesis, the theoretical part, defines the basic terms concerning specifically the manifestations of Tourette's syndrome. An integral part of Touret-te's syndrome are psychiatric diseases, behavioral disorders and learning disor-ders that children suffer from. The theoretical part of the text is mainly from the study of literature. The second part, the analytical part, is composed of semi-structured interviews, with mothers who are willing to share their experiences with children having Tou-rette's syndrome. All mothers agreed with to beeing recorded and and anonymous proccesing of results for the purpose of the thesis. Keywords Tourette's syndrome, communication, vocal tics, children communication

The thesis "Communication and approach to language in multilingual children" is focused on language production of bilingual children, 7 to 13 years old, living permanently in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, who attend the local "Czech school without borders". Its first part presents a theoretical introduction to the field of study, defines all relevant concepts and terms, especially those regarding: child development, the Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency analysis, unprepared speech and other linguistic terms used in following research. In the practical part the empirical execution of aforementioned analysis will be presented. It involves all relevant data about the participants in the research and describes how the interviews were transcribed. The practical part also shows all transcribed interviews of 15 participants of the research. Each participant was monitored for 6 months prior to the interview by the author of the thesis. The abstract of the observation of their language behaviour at school is a part of the practical part as well. This introduction is followed by a detailed Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency analysis and its summary. The end of the thesis provides a table with results of all participants in all parts of the analysis and describes what can be concluded from it. The aim of...

(in English) Diploma thesis The Influence of editorial processing on understanding the text of Babička (The Grandmother) by elementary school pupils focuses on selected editions of Božena Němcová's Babička published after 1989, which are intended for schools and children readers. The primary aim of the thesis is to determine whether the editing arrangements of the Grandmother have influence on its understanding by the pupils of the second level elementary school. The secondary aim of the thesis is to find out whether pupils in the current teaching of the Czech language are familiar with the text of Babička and in what form is the text made accessible to them. Theoretical part of the thesis characterizes the relationship of contemporary Czech readers to Božena Němcová and Babička on the basis of research of reading preferences and attitudes of the general public to non-required reading, which is followed by the description of the practice of compulsory and recommended reading at elementary schools and the publishing practice of non-required reading. The theoretical part concludes with a commented overview of the children editions of Božena Němcová's Babička focusing on two contemporary editions of Babička intended for children - one by Fragment Publishing House from 2011 and another one by Práh...

This thesis deals with the integration of the cross-curricular topic of personality and social education into the teaching Czech as a foreign language for pupils of the elderly school age, especially at the second level of elementary schools and in grammar schools. The first part introduces personality and social education, its aims and its importance in learning. Furthermore, the theoretical part deals with the teaching and integration of pupils of elderly school age with a different mother tongue in the Czech educational environment. The second part of the thesis contains a description of model teaching lessons combining the teaching of the Czech language with personal and social objectives and their evaluation. Another content of this diploma thesis is a set of other activities that teachers can use to integrate personal and social education into the teaching of Czech as a foreign language and possible suggestions as to work with personal and social education in teaching Czech as a foreign language. The aim of the diploma thesis is to make a proposal to involve the methods of personality and social education in the teaching of Czech as a foreign language in order to develop together with the language competence also the self-awareness and cultural awareness of the pupils and to offer activities...

This bachelor's dissertation analyzes the lexical content of contemporary Christian literary works for children. It looks at a corpus of prose story books (original stories, rather than re-told Bible stories), intended for children aged 6-12 that were published between 1990 and 2017. It focuses on figurative names (metaphors and symbols), which are used to help children understand basic Christian truths and terminology (heaven/paradise and eternal life, hell, satan, the Bible) and the persons of the Holy Trinity. It also examines the most frequently used metaphors (contrasting terms such as light and darkness, cleanliness and dirt, wide and narrow pathways) and the symbolism of colour. The metaphors are assessed from the perspective of their origin (in particular to what extent they are rooted in the Bible) and on the basis of their cognitive function, judged from their use within the book's content. The work maps the market for this type of literature and provides an annotated list of existing titles. Key words: figuration; figurative names; Christian literature; literature for children; metaphor; symbol; Christianity; Bible

The bachelor thesis focuses on the semantic sphere of poison and poisoning in Czech language. It is based on theoretical and methodological principles of cognitive linguistics and ethnolinguistics. In connection with the natural, common, (naive) perspective of the linguistics worldview, the beginning also briefly outlines the scientific perspective since the naive perspective refers to it and reflects it. The first part of the text focuses on data collection and description of data dictionaries of Czech language followed by analyses of Czech jed, otrava, trávit lexems (and their word-forming and semantic derivates). The second part of the text outlines, based on the analyzed data, connotations related to the main lexems of this sphere. The attention is also paid to conceptual metaphors that are related to this semantic sphere.

This Master's thesis is focused on selected factors in fluencing the learning of Czech language as a foreign language for speakers whose mother tongue is Spanish. It focuses on adult respondents aged between 25 and 40 years with a minimum level of B1. The theoretical partrepresents a brief overview of a second language learning approaches (SLA) and the relevant basic terminology.An overview of factors influencing the SLA follows and endsby own suggestion of categorizing factors for research purposes which this thesis deals with. Finally, communicative competences and selected levels of language levels A2, B1, B2 and C1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages are introduced. The research part is realized by 5 semi- structured interviews through which the factors that play a significant role in the study of Czech as a foreign language are scrutinised from the point of view of the participants in the research. It is mainly about the evaluation of their own language/communication competencies, experience with teaching and about motivation to learn Czech. The uploaded and transcribed interviews are characterized by language analysis at the level of language levels. Keywords Czech as a foreign language, factors influencing SLA, interview, communicative competence,...

The following MA thesis is concerned with the interaction among students of Czech as a foreign language in classes of low proficiency and working in pairs. It mainly concentrates on the process of overcoming obstacles that arise during communication. The objective of the thesis is to examine the students' choice of communication strategies and describe the process of negotiation of meaning. In order to achieve that, an analysis of transcribed recordings of interactions during a language lesson was made. During the lesson students had to complete two two-way tasks, which should offer as many opportunities to negotiate meaning as possible. Keywords: Czech as a foreign language, interaction, negotiation of meaning, communication strategies, pair work

The thesis deals with communication of bilingual Czech-German families in North Rhine- Westphalia. We focused mainly on the language of primary school children. The work contains two sections - a theoretical and a practical section. In the first, theoretical part of the work we tried to describe (on the based on literature) the issue of bilingualism, bilingual education and language acquisition. We also discussed the development, more specifically of primary-aged children. Attention in this section is also drawn to the region of North Rhine- Westphalia, where our research was realized. The practical part of the thesis focusses on the qualitative research of communication in multilingual families. We tried to create language biographies of individual families, based on interviews with Czech-speaking parents. Using a questionnaire, we investigated the attitudes of German-speaking parents to bilingual education. We also recorded the linguistic performances of children, which were then analyzed. Our goal was to create the most complete overview of the researched families. Key words language acquisition, bilingualism, younger school age, linguistic biography

This bachelor thesis deals with the father's image in contemporary advertisement and its perception of men. The theoretical part explains the basic concepts of media studies, linguistics, cognitive linguistics and sociology. The practical part deals with methodology of research, hypothesis formulation and analytical questions. The conclusion of the thesis is a description of five selected beverage and food advertisements that appeared on Czech screens in the years 2016 and 2017. Using the method of unstructed interviews showed that in 5 specific cases, the selected men did not identify with the father's role in the advertisement. Key words: advertisement, media, gender, linguistic picture of world, linguistic picture of father, advertisement

The bachelor's paper focuses on the chosen tools of non-verbal communication in Czech television programmes meant for children of different age. The paper's goal is to analyse the chosen non-verbal tools, to assess their form and function and to try to capture the differences between programmes meant for audiences of different age. Programmes Kouzelná školka and Planeta Yó made in production for the Czech TV and a programme Alliho parťáci by FTV Prima have been chosen for the purposes of this paper. Selected examples from the programmes were transcribed in accordance with the rules of the corpus DIALOG and transcripts of gestures were further added. The analysis is focused mainly on mimic and gesture expressions. The analysis results have shown that mimic and gesture expression adapt to the age of the child viewer.

Diplomová práce zjišťuje možnosti využití textových materiálů, zejména učebnic, pro výuku češtiny jako cizího jazyka pro práci terapeutů pacientů s Vycházíme ze zkušeností některých terapeutů, kteří pomocí materiálů pro výuku češtiny jako cizího jazyka kompenzují nedostatek afaziologických materiálů. Teoretická část práce přináší vybraná specifika češtiny jako cizího jazyka a terapie afázií a ukazuje shodné rysy jazykového projevu těchto dvou typů mluvčích. Součástí je také analýza projevu afatickéh připravovaného korpusu českých afatiků a analýza projevu nerodilého mluvčího češtiny. Oba rozbory se opírají o analýzy afatických projevů, které zpracovali lingvističtí odborníci. Praktickou část tvoří kvalitativní výzkum formou polostrukturov českými klinickými logopedy, jehož hlavním cílem bylo zjistit, zda tito terapeuti učebnice češtiny pro cizince používají, zda jsou podle jejich názoru pro terapii afázií vhodné a co by se na takových materiálech mohlo případně upravit, ab afázií užitečné. Zjistili jsme, že užívání učebnic češtiny pro cizince není mezi dotazovanými klinickými logopedy rozšířené. Po určitých úpravách si ale dokáží představit, že by je ve své praxi využili. Ti, kteří s takovými učebnicemi zkušenost v využívají především pro pacienty v chronické fázi nebo pacienty, kteří trpí pouze

This diploma theses introduces case studies of bilingual children attending Czech School Without Borders, London (CSWBL) that focuses on their education in this supplementary school. The theoretical part determines the term bilingualism. The aim is to describe aspects of bilingualism in students of CSWBL and specifics of their education with consideration of their frequent mistakes. In one chapter we describe institutions providing education to bilingual children worldwide. Another chapter outlines curriculum of "Czech schools without borders", curriculum of CSWBL and worksheets used for classwork in CSWBL. We are aware that textbooks for bilingual speaker do not yet exist. Empiric part focuses on creation of educational materials for Reception and Year 1 classes, both based on curriculum of CSWBL. This material is used during the lessons and evaluated. We describe in total six Saturday lessons, which took place at school year 2015/16. The lessons were based on those materials we created. Whilst creating the education materials we got inspired by Czech language textbooks, Czech for foreigners textbooks, CSWBL archive and internet sources. Key words bilingvism, methodology, biculturalism, mothar tongue

The following diploma thesis addresses linguistic speech in the children's program at the Radio Junior Club. The first section describes verbal expressions, defines basic theoretical concepts related to the stratification of Czech language, defines child listeners with a focus on the pre-school development period as well as the primary and middle school period and also explains the concept of child-oriented speech. The structure of Czech Radio and individual programs at Radio Junior with emphasis on the Radio Junior Club are described at the end of the theoretical section. The practical section contains two analyses describing the moderator's language and how it is responded to positively according to sound level, lexicology, morphology and syntax. The recordings were taken from the Czech Radio archive and the ORAL2013 transcriptional system, which was adapted for analysis purposes, was used to transcribe the spoken language. The results of the analyses were compared and generalized along with findings in expert literature.

The bachelor's paper focuses on the comprehension of polysemous expressions and ambiguous syntactic constructions in pre-school children. The goal of the paper is to find out, whether and how children understand polysemy, focusing closer on chosen metaphorical and metonymical transfers, and ambiguity in selected constructions. An original battery of questions has been created for this purpose, the data were being collected by a series of recorded semi-structured interviews with three children. Afterwards, the interviews were transcribed using a combination of the transcription systems GAT 2 and CHAT and analyzed. The collected data also contained interviews with every child's parent to provide closer information about the child and its linguistic, mental and social development. The results of the paper have shown that children understand many of the metaphorical (e. g. personification) and metonymical (e. g. synecdoche) transfers. It seems however, that they perceive them mostly unconsciously (as something given). On the other hand, the collected data have suggested a certain ability of the children to produce the transfers freely, depending on the given context.

The present thesis deals with the semantics of prefixes in Czech verbal neologisms. The first part describes verbal prefixation, the classification of prefixes, and their principal functions. Subsequently, polysemy, collocability and valency of prefixed verbs are characterized. The following section discusses the methodology, and characterizes the electronic neological database Neomat, which is the primary source of material for the thesis. The subject of analysis is neological verbs with prefixes od-, pro- and vy-. The meanings of these prefixes are described in relation to the collocability, valency and polysemy of prefixed verbs. The analysis aims to identify the principal meanings of the prefixes and to determine whether there are any meanings which have not been presented in any paper yet. Key words: neologism, nonce word, prefix, semantics, verb, word formation