Keywords: Ukrainian; language textbooks; Slavic languages
A textbook with a terminological dictionary, intended primarily for students of Ukrainian studies, but also for others interested in the Ukrainian language.
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Keywords: phraseology; Slavic languages; Russian; Ukrainian; Belarusian; Polish; Czech; Slovak; Slovenian; Bulgarian; Macedonian;
The multi-author book New Russian and Slavic Phraseology examines the diversity of the phraseological dynamics in modern Slavic languages. The authors analysed new processes, such as the emergence of new phraseological units, various changes in invariants of phrasemes and paroemias with reference to phraseological modelling, reactualization of the phraseological corpus elements in Slavic languages in new social climate. The authors studied new processes in modern phraseology in Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Bulgarian and Macedonian languages, and also used facts from other European languages to complement their analyses. The first chapter of the book entitled “New processes in modern Russian and Slavic phraseology” examines the connection of phraseological neologization with the most significant changes in the lives of native speakers and their society. It focuses on general trends in the development of the phraseological composition in Slavic languages and phraseosemantic aspects, and discusses problems of reproducibility and idiomaticity of ‘new’ variants of ‘old’ phraseological units. The chapter provides an overview of thematic and semantic fields in which the manifestation of new phraseology is particularly active. Other topics discussed include the interactions of ‘us’ and ‘them’, ‘old’ and ‘new’, domestic and foreign cultural (transcultural) elements in the form, semantics and pragmatics of modern phraseological neologisms, the problems of reflection of foreign cultural realia in phraseology, the perception and interpretation of phraseological units by the Slavic speech community with the comparison of the ‘traditional’ and ‘new’ stereotypes of the current generation of native speakers, as well as the correlation of synchrony and diachrony in the study of the relation between ‘old’ and ‘new’ in the modern Slavic phraseology and paremiology. The second chapter “New in Russian and Slavic phraseology in the mirror of lexicography” presents current and topical problems based on the experience of lexicographic description and recording of phraseological units in the aspect and explanatory dictionaries of Russian and other Slavic languages. The authors focus on the key issues of phraseological neography–what should be considered a new phraseological unit, and what chronological point should become the starting point for its description. Special attention is paid to the linguistic interpretation of the term ‘phraseological neologism’ with its chronological and functional aspects, the life potential of phraseological neologisms that emerged in beginning of the new millennium projected on the present-day use, the reasons and incentives for an initial activ496 | НОВОЕ В РУССКОЙ И СЛАВЯНСКОЙ ФРАЗЕОЛОГИИ ity of neologisms followed by the subsequent stabilization of some of the phrasemes, while the other ones are marginalized. The phraseological potential of new stable collocations with the social demand for their use, recording new phraseology in dictionaries of neologisms, and, in the case of their stabilization, in lexicographical and phraseographic sources are also discussed in the chapter. The third chapter entitled “New phraseological units in the modern media discourse” addresses the sphere of media landscape and media texts as the most powerful source of new phraseology. Based on the material excerpted from the media discourse, the authors consider the trends of phraseological parallelism in Slavic languages in the complexity of convergent and divergent processes, phraseologization of language units and incentives for their generation in the Internet space, network communication and cyberculture, and creative interpretation of a phraseological invariant by individual users and social groups. The fourth chapter “New phraseological units in language corpora, modern journalism and fiction” presents different approaches of the co-authors to studying the frequency of the use of certain types of phraseological novelties recorded in the corpora. The approaches also differ in the study of the semantic dynamics of phrasemes in journalistic discourse and in defining the complex idiomatic manifestations representing linguistic stereotypes. The chapter discusses approaches to the study of the variational and interpretive aspect of phraseology, which contributes to the reconstruction of the complex stable beliefs representing the assessment of the political and social phenomena, and to the study of the mechanism of indirectly derived nominations in various conceptospheres. Using literary texts and fiction as sources, the author considers the idiosyncrasy of the phraseology in the authors’ discourse and the problems of translating neological phraseological units of a slang nature into other languages. The authors of the fifth chapter entitled “Problems of the boundaries of modern Slavic phraseology” focused on the need to clarify the basic concepts of phraseology with respect to new conditions. They address the problems of semantics, pragmatics, functioning of phraseological units and lexical metaphorical formations that can be compared to phrasemes in their purpose and reproducibility. The chapter provides a definition, or rather a certain clarification of the phraseological status of stable comparisons, minimal phraseological constructions as ‘preposition + noun’, syntactic phraseological units, compound terms, slogans, appeals, etc. The sixth chapter “The origin of modern phraseological neologisms” is devoted to the issues of interlingual convergence of closely related / non-closely related Slavic and non-Slavic languages, and the interaction of their phraseology. In particular, it studies borrowings in the new Slavic phraseology, the phraseological potential of figurative expressions with a certain component, dialogical idioms. The authors focus on the perception of the semantics of phraseological units by the modern language consciousness, taking into account the social situation, spiritual constants and cultural reference points of modern society. SUMMARY | 497 The seventh chapter entitled “Transformation of phraseological units in the modern Slavic languages” presents a wide range of research in semantic, structuralsemantic and contextual novelties in phraseological units, phraseological modelling performed in vertical and horizontal analyses with respect to the transformational potential of various structural-semantic types of phraseological units. The authors focused on the interpretative potential and current new phenomena in biblical phraseological expressions as well as in phraseological units with mythological, anthroponymic and somatic components, and their perception by the modern cultural and linguistic community. A particular attention is paid to the study of transformations as a creative linguistic activity of native speakers, the manifestations of carnivalization of the ‘old’ units, and to examples of a language game. The problems of a comparative study of the transformational potential of phraseological units in closely related Slavic languages were also subjected to detailed analysis. The eighth chapter “Modern paremiology, proverbiology and aphoristics” studies the transformative potential of paroemias, proverbial expressions, aphorisms, slogans and the examples of their specific implementations. The authors consider the problems of precedence, the activity and transformative potential of the structuralsemantic model, the interaction of internal and external incentives of the precedent texts which lead to generating new axiologically informative idioms. The semantic and formal aspects of transformations of paroemias, proverbial expressions, aphorisms and slogans in the context of social relevance of this kind of neology are analysed in the chapter. Linguistic and cultural transfer is defined as a new approach to the study of modern changes in Slavic paroemias.
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Keywords: linguistics; inquiry questions; direct questions; Czech national corpus
In the empirical, descriptive sections of this monograph the author develops standard argumentation in favour of the structurally-based transformational nature of Wh-questions in English and Czech. She demonstrates how Wh-questions in Slavic languages first impacted the theoretical discussion and how their description challenged some earlier assumptions based on specifically English data. The study provides a historical survey of the analyses which reflect the development of the field. Individual chapters are devoted to comparing extraction domains, locality conditions, and constraints defined in terms of the structures proposed. The Wh-characteristics are compared with Focus/ Contrastive Topic re-orderings, which leads to an improved structural analysis, using the concept of a Split CP. In spite of the demonstrable progress of the research, many so far unexplained aspects of the Wh-phenomena will without doubt continue to provide an interesting source for future research on the structure of human language.
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Keywords: special pedagogy; hearing impairment; impaired communication ability;speech therapy;diagnostics; intervention Entered / Edited;
The publication brings new knowledge from selected areas of education, special education diagnostics, special education intervention and counselling for people with impaired communication ability and children with hearing impairments. Presented information can be a starting point for further research, it can contribute to streamlining the education of the target group towards maximum utilization of their potential. Readers from the professional community, especially special educators, speech and language therapists, undergraduate and postgraduate students of special education can find information in the book for their work and research.
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Keywords: Information and communication technologies; curriculum innovation; digital literacy; computational thinking; pupils; teachers of informatics
The ongoing development of information and communication technologies, including their introduction into education, continues to place new demands on pupils and teachers of informatics subjects, who must be prepared to respond to this development. One of these requirements is to develop the computational thinking of pupils as an integral part of the competences they must possess in the context of a contemporary information society. The presented monograph has attempted to provide answers to some of the questions that focus on the extent to which the competences of pupils or students in digital literacy and computational thinking can be developed and how the use of these approaches and methods is perceived by teachers of informatics subjects.
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Keywords: visual impairment; digitization; study; university;
The publication introduces readers to the service of figitalization of study materials and books for visualy impaired studenty. The specification of the book digitalization service inThe Support Centre for Students with Special Needs (Palacky University Olomouc) is mentioned. It continues with illustrative instructions how to create the accessible text for the student with visual impairment. The publication contains pictures that adequately illustrate its content.
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Keywords: visual impairment; digitization; study; university; support;
The publication focus on the support for visually impaired students at the university. The text is focused on the practice. First, the text shows how to help visually impaired students. Then the book deals with the serveces provided for the students with visual impairment by The Support Centre for Students with Special Needs (Palacky University Olomouc).
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Keywords: special education coordinator in school; elementary school; school counselling centre; inclusive education; job description; workload; stress; coping strategies; mental hygiene; qualitative research; grounded theory;
The publication aimed at profession of schools special educator on elementary school and its subjective experience of workload. The book deals with issues of integration, inclusion, the profession of school special educator and his status in the education system in school. It also addresses his workload, his social and professional role and personal characteristics requirements. Furthermore, the theoretical part deals with his workload, workload coping strategies and mind cleaning techniques. Through qualitative research, the specifics of the elementary school special educator profession are discovered, such as the workload of this profession and the presence of workload with school special educators.
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Keywords: pregnancy; parenthood; sexual reproduction; assisted reproduction;
The monograph focuses on a highly relevant but hitherto neglected social and educational issue of early pregnancy/parenting and possible bio-psycho-social aspects of edalyed/late pregnancy/parenting. The theoretica background of the publication represents a platform of core issues (demographic indicators, education of sexual and reproductive health, pregnancy planning/parenting, social, cultural and religious aspects of assisted reproduction, etc.) for analysis and evaluation in the context of the "Research on the cognitive and affectie dimension of young adults in the area of early pregnancy/parenting" which involved a total of 800 university students.
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Keywords: Czech for foreigners; English; glossaries;
The Glossary of Czech Aspectual prefixes addresses non-native speakers and learners of the Czech language to ease comprehending the principles of aspectual class and the opposition of perfective-imperfective aspect. This grammatical category poses a challenge to learners as well as the teachers of Czech for foreigners, since most textbooks do not offer detailed guidelines on teaching the aspect. Therefore, the learners use the aspect only in the limited set of contexts discussed in class and are not able to acquire its forms and functions fully before they proceed to B1/B2 level. The verbs in the glossary were excerpted from several textbooks of Czech for foreigners (e.g., Česky krok za krokem, Čeština pro cizince), and all verb forms correspond to the CEFR levels from A1 up to B2. The structure of the glossary was customized to the needs of non-native speakers of Czech and to meet the requirements on clear arrangement and user-friendly character of the glossary. The number of entries and aspectual prefixes of each verb was thus limited to the varieties that learners may actually face in real communicative situations. The contrast between perfective-imperfective forms is illustrated with model sentences. These allow to meet the criterion of functional equivalence, i.e., to express the grammar and meaning of Czech prefixes by syntactic, lexical or pragmatic means. Moreover, they show syntactic arguments of each verb and possible collocations as well as exemplify the use of verbs in authentic contexts.
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Keywords: Bohuslav Martinů; correspondence; musicology; music history;
The monograph is the third volume of Bohuslav Martinů's correspondence with his family in Polička. It comprises 56 items of correspondence from 1934 and 1935. Although one-sided, as only letters sent by the composer were preserved, the correspondence contains Martinů's unique and authentic remarks on both his personal and his professional life, in which he shared his news, intentions, and opinions both with his closest relatives and, through them, to a broader circle of friends in Polička and Czechoslovakia. The Czech version provides a true diplomatic transcription of Martinů's manuscript letters and includes facsimiles of the correspondence. Comprehensive annotations give historical context. The monograph includes a parallel English translation.
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Keywords: physical activities; obesity; overweight; children; adolescents;
The present monograph expands the current knowledge of the relationships between the behaviour of parents and their offspring in terms of step counts, screen time, and overweight/obesity in children. Although the current literature emphasizes a clear and quantifiable association between objectively monitored free-living physical activity of parents and their children, there is little clarification on how these relationships vary during school days and weekends in comparison with single-child families and families with more children. Revealing the patterns of parent-child behaviour provides an overview of the lifestyle of families with children aged 4-16 and is a source of valuable information for designing and implementing family-based intervention programmes to combat childhood obesity.
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Keywords: design; creative industry; local production; Olomouc;
The second of the DESIGN catalogue series with the subtitle Creative Olomouc, through which it intends to adequately promote the elite actors of the creative industries operating in the Olomouc Region. The catalogue offers texts in both Czech and English. It is an explicit support for talented artists, companies and entrepreneurs and an incentive towards the public to take into account high quality local production with high added value and to take notice of elite creatives operating in Olomouc and its surroundings who deserve more consistent recognition. The content of the edition draws on the online database of creative entities Kreativní Olomouc, which brings together hundreds of creatives, companies and institutions for the needs of the professional public, local government, as well as the general public demanding products and services from local producers.
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Keywords: Jan Vinar; China; Tibet; Dalai Lama;
The core of the book is a critical edition of an unpublished reportage of Jan Vinař from his 1959 trip to Tibet called Tibet - A Country where People Have Leaped a Thousand Years Forward. Vinař’s text was never published officially (there are only fifteen copies of a samizdat edition printed in 1983 in Zurich) and today it can be considered an important documentary material of the given historical period. The reportage written in 1960 echoes the official Chinese narrative of Tibetan history and social development and his views reflect the Chinese interpretation of the March 1959 uprising. The book is accompanied by so far unpublished photographic material from the 1959 journalist expedition to Tibet and scholarly commentary by editors to the original text in the form of footnotes and several studies clarifying certain aspects of the topic and the historical and political context. Kamila Hladíková describes the clash of Chinese and Tibetan narratives explaining recent Tibetan history, mainly regarding the occupation of Tibetan-inhabited territories by the PLA in 1950-1951 and the legitimization of the regime after 1959. Luboš Bělka provides detailed biography of Jan Vinař and explains the historical background of the decade between 1950 and 1959 in Tibet, analyzes the texts published by other visitors to Tibet in that time and introduces the phenomenon known in Tibetan language as thamzing, or struggle sessions.
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Keywords: cultural anthropology; identity; migration; religion
The book is an outcome of the cultural anthropologists' research team at the Faculty of Arts, Palacky University Olomouc. The aim is to contribute to the contemporary debate on cultural anthropology and deepen an understanding for the key anthropological concepts in today's world - culture within the so-called post-turn anthropology, transnational cultural identities and migration, faith and religions, commodification of culture in cultural tourism, migration and home, collaborative and multi-sited ethnography. The book points out some of the current approaches, trends and challenges without giving up the need to incorporate them in the rich intellectual leaven of contemporary social sciences, especially socio-cultural anthropology which is perceived as an open, interdisciplinary, comparative and truly global science. The book consists of six chapters dealing with diverse topics, from reflexivity and polovocality, through the anthropology of home and the anthropology or religion, to the anthropology of tourism. It points to considerable challenges facing contemporary anthropologists. However, it argues that the theoretical-methodological tools which anthropologists have at their disposal thanks to more than a century of development of the discipline - long-term fieldwork, historical depth and extensive analysis of the studied phenomena, emic and etic perspectives, cultural relativism, epistemological reflexivity and the necessary knowledge of the wider context - are the promise of a successful continuation of this discipline in the 21st century.
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Keywords: abuse; addictive substances; alcohol; drugs; smoking;
The book maps the reflection of social and health threats of substance abuse in the population of the Czech Republic. The dependence of the perception of substance abuse on age, gender, and education is analyzed. The book also offers an analysis of the relationship of these threats to the value preferences of substance users, including the use of this value context in prevention and intervention in social work and social pedagogy. Attention is given to four key groups of addictive substances: alcohol, tobacco and tobacco products, drugs and medicines, and illicit drugs.
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Keywords: students; alcohol; addiction;
Research into alcohol use by young people is mostly focused on adolescents, secondary or further education students rather than university students. However, alcohol drinking among university students is a widely recognized problem and represents a serious health and cultural problem, with many negative individual, interpersonal and cultural consequences. Binge drinking, an increasingly common pattern of excessive alcohol use with serious negative consequences for individual drinkers, those around them, and the university environment, is a major problem on university campuses. Alcohol consumption among youths is affected by a complex of risk and protective factors, investigation of which is essential for a better understanding and focusing of the intervention procedures. The complex linkages of risk and protective factors and problem behaviours change over time and within different cultures and countries. The importance of this kind of research for the field of prevention is obvious: If we can determine the personal and interpersonal protective and risk factors affecting alcohol-use behaviour, we can better plan preventive interventions focused on creating and enhancing the personal protective attributes. To design and develop appropriate interventions, to improve behavioural outcomes for adolescents, a better understanding of these complexities and relations is required.
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Keywords: sexuality; intimacy, relationships; disability; intellectual disability; social services
At present, everybody has the right to full participation and life in society. One of the important areas of human life includes partnerships and sexuality. However, in persons with intellectual disability, this has been taboo until recently. For some time, researchers have tried to analyse this area both in terms of theory and practical implementation. The monograph deals with partnerships, intimacy and sexuality of people with mental disabilities in the context of the latest knowledge and research results. It defines first the theoretical background, and finally presents the conclusions of a research study implemented by means of quantitative and qualitative methods in the area of sexuality of persons with intellectual disability.
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Keywords: education; conference papers; teachers; psychology;
The reviewed proceedings present twenty-five contributions from the international conference 'Current Issues of Education in Ph.D. Students' Researches XV: Challenges for Teachers in the 21st Century, held at the Faculty of Education, Palacký University Olomouc, on November 6-7, 2019. The contributions are focused on the field of education, namely the issue of personality of a teacher, didactic questions, psychological aspects of education and other actual issues.
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