Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(3):163-167
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(3):156-162
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(3):144-153 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2026.001
The study deals with analysis of two contemporary Czech collections of poems - Na cestu zpět si zapínám skryté titulky (For the return trip I am turning on the hidden subtitles) by Elena Pecenová and Ondřej Krystyník's Dům U Orobinců (House by Typha). Both authors representing distinct but noticeable poetic approaches were nominated for The Jiří Orten Award in 2024. Pecenová connects her work with visual art and digital aesthetic, her poetry reflects identity in the digital environment and simulacra. On the other hand, Krystyník uses motifs of path, new ruralism, and spiritual reflection while fusing existential searching with humorous self-reflection....
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(3):130-143 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.027
This study follows previous systematic interest in (not only) literary diaries of Vladimír Novotný, however, concerning literary diaries, also authors as: Rudolf Suchý, Zdeněk Kožmín, Petr Kukal, or from foreign literary production for example Rudolf Dilong. The text is concerned with the last two diaristic books of Vladimír Novotný - Týdny v tusculu (Weeks in Tusculum) and Týdny a dny (Weeks and Days). It draws on previously acquired knowledge utilized in reviews concerning Novotný's work, the study focusing on fictional/literary ego-document, and additional (unfortunately not extensive) critical response to Novotný's literary diaries. This study...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(3):100-129 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2026.005
The study aims to analyse two prose texts. The lyrical-epic ballabile Bratři Biglinové na dvojskifu (The Biglin Brothers on a double skiff) by J. A. Pitínský and the novel Canto ostinato by Pavel Kolmačka. These are texts by authors who do not focus solely on writing fiction. J. A. Pitínský is known primarily as a playwright and theater director. Pavel Kolamčka is a respected and acclaimed poet. Both texts are connected by the emphasis on the method of processing. Both focus on writing. Pitínsky's text even has writing as its main theme. Kolmačka's novel analyses several themes. But the most important is the searching for one's place in the world in...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(3):86-99 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2026.002
Autofiction could be perceived as a specific poetic expression symptomatic for the first quarter of the 21st century, reflecting the place of an individual in present complex world. Authors react through their texts by opening personal questions and themes in individualized post-industrial society, literary searching for one's identity, sometimes overlapping to committed poetic expression based on personal story with ambition to create a manifesto or became an actant of social and cultural debate. This text deals with Marek Torčík's Rozložíš paměť (Memory Burn) which received positive critical responses of Czech literary critics, also won domestic...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(3):66-85 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2026.004
This study presents a literary analysis and interpretation of Hella (2023), the prose debut by Alena Machoninová. Positioned at the interface of biography, (auto)fiction, and the literary essay, the analysed text is examined as a complex reflection on memory, trauma, and identity, particularly within the context of the 20th-century totalitarian experience. Primary attention is given to a specific narrative strategy that productively merges a historical documentary base with the narrator's lyricized subjectivity. The study explores how Machoninová employs motifs of identity, naming, and linguistic "transfer" to articulate the experience of the Other,...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(3):52-65 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2026.003
The study deals with the issue of the depiction of the Sudetenland in contemporary Czech prose production. Using the examples of Leoš Kyša's Sudetenland and Pavel Šuba's Klíč k Morgenlandu (The Key to Morgenland), it shows two different ways of treating the theme of the coexistence of Czechs and Germans in Czechoslovakia. The article compares a detective story set against the backdrop of counterfactual history with a narrative about the fictional characters' search for their roots in the historically authentic environment of the Moravian-Silesian Sudetenland. Set in border area of Czech Republic in 1990s, through Sudetland Kyša offers sceptical view...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(3):26-51 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.005
The text discusses a trio of thematically related prose published in 2023, namely Klára Vlasáková's Těla (Bodies), Petra Hůlová's Nejvyšší karta (The Highest Card), and Radka Denemarková's Čokoládová krev (Chocolate Blood). These texts are presented, and compared mainly with regard to their social appeal, especially their interest in gender and feminist issues; however, their language and style are also taken into account. In addition to the similarities (all of the texts are à la these; the fact that all of them in some way point to the persistent differences in the power and economic status of men and women), more significant conceptual differences...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(3):12-25 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.025
The study analyses the results of the Magnesia Litera Book Prize in the prose category for 2023. It looks at current trends in prose fiction, as seen in the prose works that were considered, nominated, and ultimately awarded, particularly novels by Marek Torčík (Rozložíš paměť - Memory Burn), Alena Machoninová (Hella), Petr Šesták (Vyhoření - Burnout), Alexej Sevruk (Evropanka - European), Petra Hůlová (Nejvyšší karta - The Highest Card), and Michal Kašpárek (Fosilie - Fossils). Much of the prose is so-called engaged, respond- ing to current topics of the day, such as feminism, the ecological threat, racism or queer issues. This literature tries to...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(3):7-9
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):196-201
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):174-193 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.020
The study examines the word order of pronouns functioning as modifiers or determiners within the noun phrase in Jan Hus's Czech-language treatises. It follows up on Navrátilová (2024), which focused on the word order of noun phrases in Hus's Czech and Latin correspondence. The present study thus constitutes a part of the broader research on word order in Hus's Czech- and Latin-language texts, with a particular focus on the noun-phrase syntax. The primary aim is to determine whether the word order of noun phrases in the Czech treatises differs from that found in Hus's Latin and Czech letters, and whether the genre of a given text therefore constitutes...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):154-173 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.026
The author of the paper analyses the issue of Czech pronunciation of Polish students of Czech Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, whose selected pronunciation difficulties persist throughout bachelorʼs and masterʼs studies. The author illustrates the pronunciation issues of Polish students with examples from her own practice in teaching Czech as a foreign language. She proceeds from an acoustic analysis of speech to the presentation and comparison of selected problematic phonetic-phonological features of Czech and Polish. Using the research of interpreting studies and neuroscience, the author argues that foreign language pronunciation...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):140-153 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.018
This article examines the link between the voice technique and the speech culture in public and professional communication. While the spoken communication training is more common, systematic voice education remains mainly in artistic schools. The text connects speech culture, focusing on standard pronunciation, articulation, phrasing, and tempo, with voice training, developing breath support, posture, and resonance. It argues that the effective speech requires awareness of physiological processes underlying voice production: posture shapes breathing, breathing influences resonance, and both affect tempo, intelligibility, and listener perception. The...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):124-139 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.015
The study presents findings from an analysis of dialogues by non-professional speakers, with the aim of identifying contemporary tendencies in the regional Czech pronunciation. The focus is placed on the production of the glottal stop and prosthetic sounds. The previous research has suggested that speakers from Moravian and Silesian regions exhibit a tendency to omit the glottal stop. A non-standard phonetic feature is the occurrence of prosthesis - the insertion of [v] or [h] preceding vowel-initial words. The corpus includes speech samples by 58 speakers representing four dialect groups: Bohemian, Central Moravian, Eastern Moravian, and Silesian....
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):106-123 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.019
This study explores the suprasegmental dialect feature of penultimate stress (paroxytonic accent) in the South Bohemian dialect, specifically within the Doudleby subdialect. It analyzes the frequency and function of this feature across four generations of speakers (born between 1870 and 2010), focusing on multisyllabic words in the core of utterances. Using the perceptual and instrumental analysis via Praat, the study reveals that penultimate stress occurs most frequently in the emphatic speech and is more common in longer words. Statistical results show a generational decline in usage - from 44.41 % in the oldest group to 21.70 % in the youngest -...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):88-105 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.023
Idiomatic expressions represent the key element of the language, expressing culture, history, and the mindset of the society. Their interpretation might be difficult for non- -native speakers, as their meaning not always follows from the context. Idiomatic units make it possible to observe the relation between the language and the linguistic image of the world. Prominent idioms are those featuring colours which carry symbolic, cultural, and emotional values. The theoretical frame of this work is the model developed by Berlin and Kay, which defines criteria for basic colour terms, and emphasizes the universal primacy of white and black as fundamental...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):64-87 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.017
This article focuses primarily on theoretical issues related to linguistic economy with regard to lexical blending. We present the concept of blended words and their structure with a focus on English and Slovak. The result of our observations is a different perception of the structural types that form the basis for the creation of blended words. The structural types established so far cannot be considered unambiguous. Linguistic reality shows that they are no longer satisfactory, as crosswords are highly unpredictable. Therefore, we will focus on several aspects of linguistic economy and how crosswords can be formed not only positively but also negatively....
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):52-63 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.021
Epistemic attitudes, expressed by epistemic particles in addition to modal verbs and verbs of thought, are a component of the semantic structure of statements typically with a declarative form, i.e. of indicative or conditional statements, signalling the (real or conditional) validity of content. Epistemic particles express different degrees of the speaker's certainty about the validity of the statement content. However, we also find particles of epistemic modality in constructions with the imperative form of the verb. The morphological imperative is the primary means of expressing mainly two communicative-attitudinal categories: command and prohibition....
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):30-51 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.022
The paper focuses on the occurrence of functional-semantic shifts from full-meaning means to non-full-meaning grammatical means in the spoken communication. The author notes the penetration of desemantized analytical structures into speech. This mainly concerns the functional transposition of fixed forms of nouns, verbs, and adverbs to prepositional and conjunctive expressions and their appropriate description in new functions. The text takes into account secondary forms that are neutralized (kvůli, mimoto), not fully anchored in terms of part of speech (formou, eventuálně), and multi-word forms with a written language feature (na základě, po stránce,...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):12-29 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.024
The paper examines reactive questions with the expression cože and divides them into a) questions by which the speaker asks the interlocutor to repeat his/her previous turn or part of a turn which the speaker did not understand; b) pragmatically stressed questions which perform the function of the so-called "newsmarks" and express the speaker's amazement, surprise at new information that he or she did not expect, or even his/her doubt, disbelief, disagreement. The research methodology is based on functional-stylistic and pragma-linguistic analysis, the questions with cože were taken from corpora of spoken and written Czech. It was possible to confirm...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):7-9
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(1):233-236
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(1):231-232
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(1):229-230
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(1):222-228
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(1):216-221
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(1):208-215
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(1):182-205 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.010
The aim of the transdisciplinary case study is to analyse how the topic of abortion is captured in the novel Bílá Voda by Kateřina Tučková and how it is interpreted in the discourse of the author's media interviews. The novel characters Agnieszka, Maciek, Lena, sister Evarista, a Polish priest, and priest Stauber took a position on abortion in internal monologues or verbal statements; they use explicitly naturalistic arguments against abortion. The ideological message of the novel is unequivocally and repeatedly pro-life. In her media interviews though, the author declares that she rejects the Catholic church's stance on a woman's right to make decisions...
