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Bohemica Olomucensia 2017, 9(2):8-54 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2017.017
The contribution focuses on Roman Jakobson's first post-World War II visit to Czechoslovakia he luckily left in April 1939. The regime changed from the Nazi Protectorate to the Communist dictatorship. The article describes how he was closely followed by the Czechoslovak security services and suspected of being an agent of the intelligence service of the USA. The extensive materials gathered by the Czechoslovak authorities have been stored in the Archives of Security Services in Prague, Czech Republic.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2017, 9(2):56-70 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2017.018
The paper deals with the functions of verbal nouns in Old and Middle Czech, analyzing the onomasiological categories that are employed with these nouns. As in contemporary Czech, action nouns represent by far the most frequent (paradigmatic) category; however, there are some differences between them and their contemporary-Czech counterparts, among which different valence possibilities stand out. Other frequently represented categories are nouns of results, means, qualities and places, the rest of the categories (such as agent nouns) being rather marginal. The article shows that this arrangement of categories (including their paradigmaticity) is not...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2017, 9(2):72-86 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2017.019
Linguistically, Czech Catholic bibles of the second half of the 19th century (six complete editions of the bible and one separate edition of the New Testament) are strongly dependent on the Latin Vulgate and on older Czech tradition. The contain numerous phenomena reflecting the influence of Latin syntax and Latin word order and many lexical archaisms. Their language was relatively distant from the standard Czech of that period which is why it represented an obstacle for understanding of the text. The validity of these general statements, often mentioned in scholarly studies on this topic, is documented by partial probes the results of which are included...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2017, 9(2):88-94 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2017.020
A certain shift to the deflectivation enforces in the morphological structure of the contemporary Czech language. At the same time, tendencies to turn towards the analytic language construct are registred. This phenomenon, which has already begun in the older phases of development, is currently increasing in intensity and scope. In this paper, four main types of deflectivation in contemporary Czech are presented, which are documented by numerous references to the behavior of nouns, adjectives, pronouns and verbs.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2017, 9(2):96-110 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2017.021
The paper deals with a position of a lexeme krajina (landscape) which appears in the texts focused on the topic of Šumava (Bohemian forest). The paper compared texts about Šumava with current usage in the Czech national corpus (SYN2010) and with a diachronic material also. The paper tries to describe the ways of specific lexical actualizations in the discourse on Šumava.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2017, 9(2):112-122 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2017.022
Study deals with the nonparadigmaticly formed adjectives in word-forming paradigms of czech verbs. Verbs are suitable material for studying word-forming paradigms because of their large derivation potenciality (especially prefixal derivation is potencial) and for their ability to form verbal aspectual counterparts and multiplicativity counterparts. Study is focused on verbal ability to be basis of nonparadigmatical formation of verbal adjectives. Study indicates how is possible to record these adjectives in word-forming paradigma.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2017, 9(2):124-134 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2017.023
The media environment hosts many topics belonging to the cultural, social and political discourses. The recent media communication concerning the political discourse is characterized by widening the range of participants invited to take part in the debate on current political issues. Besides professional politicians there are so-called present-day politicians (i.e. the representatives of non-governmental, human rights or ecologic organisations) the economists, financial experts or experts in any key topics in question, and finally, there are representatives of the public.The author pursues how the medium may influence the presentation of an issue...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2017, 9(2):136-150 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2017.024
In the article the author attempts to clarify how to analyse the linguistic aspect of the presidential speeches in terms of the linguistic image of the world. Analysing ceremonial speeches the author analyses the symptoms of sociativity and persuasion, classifies traditional rhetorical devices (among others figures and tropes) and tries to find answers to the question why these forms were used in the given context by the President M. Zeman. Conceptual metaphors are then analysed as specific units emphasizing, misleading or hiding the expressed meaning.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2017, 9(2):152-163 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2017.025
The subject of this paper paper is to analyze and characterize Czech vowels and diphtongs in terms of acoustic quality and acoustic quantity. Acoustic analysis inspects ten speakers chosen from two Czech corpora of spoken language. Recorded values of formant and quantity analysis were compared with traditional and new reference values of Czech vowel formants and results of vowel quantity analysis were compared with reference values of vowel quantity.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2017, 9(2):164-171 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2017.026
In the foreign language learning process, a major role is played by linguodidactic grammatical rules taking balanced consideration of both the formal aspects and the speech dimension of a grammatical category or phenomenon. In Czech textbooks designed for other-language speakers we can find quite a few points of concern, especially formalism, i.e. considerable (and often exclusive) attention paid only to the grammatical form, without regard to its speech function. One of the crucial issues is the veracity, accuracy and validity of a linguo-didactic grammatical instruction. In the initial phase of foreign-language teaching, we approve of the necessity...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2017, 9(2):172-179 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2017.027
We focused on units with adjectival inflection, for which the primary function is expressing an attribute and its secondary function is expressing a subject. Analysis of corpora data showed that units with adjectival inflection which perform primarily the function of a subject (hajný, pokojská) are reliably identified in the dictionary. We also found that such units with adjectival inflection which serve primarily as an attribute and only secondarily as a subject are in most cases assigned two interpretations in the dictionary, however, when disambiguating, the interpretation is selected incorrectly (strážný, výchovný). This type of expression is interpreted...
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