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The theme of the diploma thesis is the analysis of the "mother language" on the Czech Internet forums (especially on emimino.cz, baby-cafe.cz, mimibazar.cz). In the theoretical part the author introduces the varieties of the national language. She defines the characteristics, structure and social differentiation of the analysed sociolect. Then she presents the fundamental aspects of human communication and also devotes to the particularities of communication on the Internet. In the practical part she carries out a language analysis of the collected material. She focuses primarily on the lexical means, mainly diminutives, compounds and abbreviations. The aim of the thesis is to present the specific type of expressing and at the same time to contribute to the research of the non-standard Czech language with this study.

This diploma thesis follows my bachelor thesis in which the mother slang was described. This diploma thesis is aimed at the performance of the mother speech research, i.e. the use of specific expressions and language resources used by mothers of small children in Internet discussions in relevant forums or web pages. The diploma thesis aims at creating a questionnaire and establishing five hypotheses. The first part of the thesis describes the methodology of this research, in the following part there are presented the data obtained by the questionnaire survey. The hypotheses are verified in the following section, and the hypothesis testing procedure is described here. The appendix includes the questionnaire and a table of critical values that specifies the data that are needed for verifying hypotheses.

This bachelor thesis is focused on the collection of specific expressions and linguistic styles which are used by mothers on Internet forums. The bachelor thesis aims to create a kind of dictionary of maternal expressions on the Internet and also draw attention to other specifics of a mother´s speech. The first part of this work outlines the theoretical basis for the work and also the issue of slang in general. The practical part is based on data collected from various Internet portals and then categorized into thematic areas which follow the chronological development of the foetus and then a small child. The appendix includes a list of emoticons and an expanded list of abbreviations used in maternal debates, which are taken from a pregnancy card.