Marie Šimáková “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” Robert Frost As Robert Frost states, poetry is first and foremost based on human emotions and these emotions play an important role in the creating and writing process. But how to take advantage …
Joruna Hrabalová The topic of this thesis was familiar to me because I have been working as a sworn interpreter for the past twenty years or so. During this time, I have collected a considerable amount of various terms and expressions that I have found to be complicated in some way or other. They have …
Tereza Heřmanová My thesis, Analysis of Lexical Units in Bohumil Hrabal’s Prose, deals with the issue of translation from Czech to English. The two works I am analysing are a novella by Bohumil Hrabal called Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále and its translation by Paul Wilson, I Served the King of England. I chose …
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 …
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 …