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February 2017

From your Editor

Dear readers, I hope you will enjoy this issue, as ever. This time The Messenger has not only been produced by a team of fully engaged students of AJ_EJTM but it has also been completed by some outstanding bachelor and diploma theses reports . It is a marvellous issue, and I thank everyone …

IN TEACHING YOU WILL LEARN

Veronika Machová If you study at the Faculty of Education you are supposed to experience an internship at a primary school. I am going to tell you my story, in which the main obstacle was not the pupils or the teaching itself. It was my first lesson of the day. I had got …

Discourse Analysis of Air Traffic Phraseology

Ondřej Čada In my Bachelor’s thesis “Discourse Analysis of Air Traffic Phraseology” I examine so-called airspeak, a special variety of English for specific purposes. In contrast to Standard English, the language of aviation contains many distinctive differences in phonetics, a specialized lexicon and simplified grammar, and it is heavily dependent on knowledge shared …

Harry Potter and the midnight sale

Tomáš Palko Many of us have already read it and the fact that it is a half-blood (a published rehearsal script) surprisingly did not matter. Yes, I am talking about The Cursed Child, a new book by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffani and Jack Thorne. The English version has been out for some time, but …

English heraldic terminology and its sources

Magdalena Kyzlinková As a former student of auxiliary historical sciences, I decided to make use of my previous knowledge from this branch of study and connect it with the study of language. Therefore, the work I created needs to be viewed not merely as a piece of writing on linguistics, but also from a historical …