Publisher: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci

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Aspects of literary translation: the mediating role of the translator

Aspekty literárního překladu: mediační úloha překladatele

Author(s): Jitka Zehnalová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: literary translations; prose literature in English; American fiction; translations from English; translations into Czech; linguistic analysis; interpretation and reception of literature; intercultural communication;

The focus of this book is translation of fiction from English to Czech (with a brief excursion to the other direction of translating), and its goal is to introduce literary translation as a complex and dynamic phenomenon conditioned by numerous individual, cultural, social and time factors such as the sense and style of the original, expectations, knowledge and experience base of the reader, differing opinions on and approaches to translation, differences in the source and target languages and cultures, and last but definitely not least the attitudes, values, educational background, professional profile and unique life experience of the translator.

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Dramatist Max Zweig - prophet of the new humanism

Dramatik Max Zweig – prorok nového humanismu

Author(s): Ivana Cahová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: authors writing in German; Jewish authors; Moravian German literature; Jewish literature; literary influences; literature and society; literature and politics; identity in literature; interpretation and reception of literature

The publication deals with the life and work of Max Zweig, a native of Moravia, German-language Jewish playwright from Israel. The aim of this work is to make Zweig’s early literary and dramatic texts, so far absent in literary history, visible and accessible (especially to Czech professional public and Czech readers). This interdisciplinary work, oscillating between literary-analytical and cultural-historical studies, analyses Zweig’s artistic texts in the socio-political and cultural discourses of Moravia in a breakthrough period between the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and the first Czechoslovak Republic, of Vienna and of Berlin in the interwar period and in the early years of the Shoah, and of Tel Aviv in the last years of the British Mandate, during the pioneering building of the “Jewish homeland” and in the dramatic period following the establishment of an independent State of Israel. Through these discourses and on the basis of Zweig’s biography that they formed, this work tries to analyse in what environment and how a Central European Jewish identity was formed in the 20th century and at the same time to point out the specifics of German-language literature in Israel as an “interspace” literature that cannot be to explored through the lens of history of only one cultural and aesthetic tradition.

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Web cartography - specifics of creating interactive maps on the web

Webová kartografie – specifika tvorby interaktivních map na webu

Author(s): Rostislav Nétek / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: cartography; web; map; interactivity; specifics

The publication aims (as the first work on the market) to cover and describe aspects and principles of web cartography. The first theoretical part brings a clear definition of concepts and introduction to the context. The second part describes individual aspects of web cartography, including pillars for the creation of map applications: data and libraries. The publication is designed as a set of rules, principles, recommendations and methods for web map authors. The reader of this monograph should be oriented in the aspects and principles of web cartography, use the terms correctly, and last but not least should understand the process of creating a web map with all the cartographic essentials.

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The Municipal Theatre in Krnov: Das Stadttheater in Jägerndorf (1854-1944)

Městské divadlo v Krnově: Das Stadttheater in Jägerndorf (1854–1944)

Author(s): Sylva Pracná / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: German theater; history of theater; theater life

Municepal theatre in Krnov was among the municipal theatres in Opava and Těšín the youngest and smallest theatre with German speaking ensemble. This monography gives a chronological interpretation of the Krnov municipal theatre history. The author describes the production of the theatre, its audience potential, organization, and artistic reach in the wide context of the history of German language theatres in Moravia and Silesia. The interpretation is presented with extensive note apparatus, pictorial supplement, register of namese, list of ascertained repertoires and English and German resumé.

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Dear Miloš: Letters of Bohuslav Martinů to Miloš Šafránek

Milý Miloši: Dopisy Bohuslava Martinů Miloši Šafránkovi

Author(s): Vít Zouhar,Gabriela Coufalová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: composers; friends and associates; musical life

A collection of correspondence with Miloš Šafránek, Czech diplomat, music publicist, promoter of the work and biographer of B. Martinů contains diplomatic transcriptions of one hundred and sixty-eight letters, six postcards, five correspondence notes, one telegram and one sticker from the period 1928-1959. The correspondence is mostly one-sided, addressed to M. Šafránek, with M. Šafránek being the sender of only two items. The authors of the edition respect the specifics of Martinů's linguistic expression, which is why they chose the method of diplomatic transcription of letters. The entire text is supplemented by extensive annotation, which not only illuminates the historical context and the political situation in the most turbulent years of the 20th century, but also comments on the genesis of the works, the circumstances of performing, recording and publishing Martinů's compositions.

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Youth and Values 2018: values education in the context of a pluralistic and multicultural society

Mládež a hodnoty 2018: Výchova k hodnotám v kontextu pluralitní a multikulturní společnosti

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Czech

Keywords: values among people; values in groups; people with special educational needs; religion and faith

The international conference "Youth and Values," held biennially since 2007, has evolved into a significant platform for experts in education to share research and ideas. This year's conference, hosted in Olomouc on November 8th and 9th, featured a diverse range of topics. The collected works in this book are divided into three main areas: the general characteristics and evolution of values among young people, values within specific groups such as those with special needs and minorities, and values in relation to religion and belief. Contributions include both overview studies and original research, all subjected to rigorous peer review. The conference fosters an inclusive atmosphere, encouraging collaboration across national and disciplinary borders. The focus remains on understanding how values shape and are shaped by society and individuals. This collection aims to inspire further exploration and discovery in the field of values.

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Documents of the International Theological Commission 1969-2017 and some other texts of the Pontifical Biblical Commission and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Dokumenty Mezinárodní teologické komise 1969-2017 a některé další texty Papežské biblické komise a Kongregace pro nauku víry

Author(s): / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Catholic theology; Catholic doctrine; inculturation; hermeneutics; ecclesiastical institutions and organizations

The book contains, in chronological order according to the date of publication, Czech translations of all the documents of the International Theological Commission with introductory studies in Czech. In addition, there are also Czech translations of two documents of the Pontifical Biblical Commission and some other documents of the Roman Pontifical Councils. These texts are very important for the formation of theologians both in the basic course and in doctoral studies. The individual texts are devoted to specific areas of systematic theology or to particular pressing issues facing theology in the contemporary world. The book should be part of the equipment of every student of theology, every teacher of any theological subject, and all workers in the field of pastoral care. It is sure to find a resonance also in the wider circle of those interested in the issues of faith and Christian thought in our country.

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The rise of Dutch grammar. On grammaticalisation and other related developments in the history of Dutch

De opkomst van de Nederlandse grammatica. Over grammaticalisatie en andere verwante ontwikkelingen in de geschiedenis van het Nederlands

Author(s): Martin Konvička / Language(s): Dutch

Keywords: Dutch language; grammaticalization; grammar; historical linguistics

Grammaticalization has received a great deal of attention in recent decades. This paper reflects on the debates and uses their results to look at the processes in Dutch. The author understands grammaticalization as those processes that lead to the emergence of new or change in existing grammatical structures. The thesis contains three thematic units. The first illuminates the development of thinking about grammaticalization in a philosophical and linguistic context from the 19th century to the present day. It deals with the understanding of grammaticalization processes in the pre-structuralist conception of linguistics, as well as the relations of generative linguistics to the study of grammaticalization. The second part focuses on a critical discussion of the main themes in the current literature on grammaticalization. In the third part, theoretical accounts of grammaticalization are illustrated by means of Dutch.

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Dear friend Bureš: Bohuslav Martinů´s Letters to Miloslav Bureš

Milý příteli Bureši: Dopisy Bohuslava Martinů Miloslavu Burešovi / Dear friend Bureš: Bohuslav Martinů´s Letters to Miloslav Bureš

Author(s): Vít Zouhar,Gabriela Coufalová / Language(s): English,Czech

Keywords: composers; Czech poets; musical life; music and literature

The monograph documents the preserved correspondence between the composer Bohuslav Martinů and the poet Miloslav Bureš. It represents a unique testimony to their having working together on four cantatas: Opening of the Springs, The Legend of the Smoke from Potato Tops, A Dandelion Romance and Mikesh from the Mountains. Furthermore, it serves to document the sheer difficulties of communication between East and West in the second half of the 1950s. This period picture is supplemented and extended by the correspondence Martinů and Bureš conducted with other addressees, which duly reveals other meanings and nuances of that which the two artists communicated to each other.

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Specifics of communication in relation to sexuality I: Helping professions in relation to sexuality, including people with intellectual disabilities

Specifika komunikace ve vztahu k sexualitě I: Pomáhající profese ve vztahu k sexualitě, včetně osob s mentálním postižením

Author(s): Dana Štěrbová,Miluše Rašková / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: sexuality; sex education; interpersonal communication; sex differences; sexual behavior; helping professions; people with mental disabilities

The monograph focuses on aspects of human sexual and reproductive behaviour that are the most socially serious manifestations of sexuality. The publication includes information leading to greater responsibility for one's own sexual health, and to safe and responsible sexual behaviour through which people (even those with disabilities) can meet their sexual needs at an acceptable level. It focuses on sexual abuse, including people with intellectual disabilities. Attention is given to the helping professions, the area of attitudes and sexuality including the family in which the individual with a disability occurs, and the issue of sexuality in the context of education in curriculum documents at the state and school level. The specifics of approaches in education to persons with intellectual disabilities are also described.

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Level of reading strategies of 15-year-old pupils at the end of primary education

Úroveň čtenářských strategií patnáctiletých žáků na konci základního vzdělávání

Author(s): Vlasta Řeřichová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: educational research; readers' literacy; learners

The monograph presents the results of a research aimed at determining the level of reading strategies of 15-year-old students at the end of their primary education. The authors of the publication address this topic in a broader context. Therefore, in the introductory, theoretically oriented chapters, they also trace how the issue of reading strategies is reflected in the content and expected outcomes set by the Framework Curriculum for Primary Education, explain the specifics of the development of reading strategies in the Internet environment and present the possibilities of developing reading strategies in the younger school age period.

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Basics of sports nutrition

Základy sportovní výživy

Author(s): Iva Klimešová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: nutrition hygiene; sportsmen; rational nutrition

The book is intended for university students with a sports orientation and also for all those who like sports and want to know how to support their performance with an appropriate diet. Although the area of nutrition is often overlooked by athletes and not given as much emphasis as the actual training process, top and experienced coaches know that they cannot do without adequate nutritional support. Today, nutrition is seen as an integral part of quality recovery. The text of the book not only discusses energy balance taking into account the specific requirements of the athlete and the essential nutrients in the diet, but also discusses in detail the appropriate timing of food intake depending on training and the use of supplements.

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Restraint´s Rewards: Limited Sovereignties, Ancient Values, and the Preamble for a European Constitution

Restraint´s Rewards: Limited Sovereignties, Ancient Values, and the Preamble for a European Constitution

Author(s): Peter McCormick / Language(s): English

Keywords: civilization; values; cultural traditions; political philosophy; constitution

Any EU constitution tomorrow will need to embody basic European ethical values. Yet the identity of such values and their sources remain strongly controversial. Peter McCormick retrieves from cultural origins of some major European values a basic ethical value of a measured and critically reasoned restraint in all things. At the same time he argues that this originary ethical value entails a renewed understanding of political, social, and individual sovereignties no longer as almost absolute but as necessarily limited. The rewards for polities of fully assuming such a basic ethical value turn out to include the ineluctable necessity for the rule of law, the constitutionalisation of social pluralisms, and the entrenchment of personal dignity.

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Church Caritas Ministry in the Perspective of Caritas-Theology and Catholic Social Teaching

Church Caritas Ministry in the Perspective of Caritas-Theology and Catholic Social Teaching

Author(s): Jakub Doležel / Language(s): English

Keywords: Church; charitable service; Catholic social teaching; theology; charitable practice

The focus of this publication is the Church's charitable ministry in relation to Catholic social teaching. The authors of this collaborative monograph provide answers to the questions of the forms and reasons for their mutual estrangement, how the position of charitable service has changed with the publication of the encyclical Deus caritas est and especially Motu proprio Intima ecclesiae natura, how and why a theology of charitable service can be legitimately conceptualized, how and where such a theology is being developed in the world, and how the two strands of the Church's socio-pastoral mission can be brought into balance in an integral model of charitable practice today.

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Polish studies in Olomouc in the past and today

Polonistika v Olomouci v minulosti a dnes / Polonistyka w Ołomucu dawniej i dziť

Author(s): Marie Sobotková,Izabela Szulc / Language(s): Czech,Polish

Keywords: Polish studies; study and teaching; universities; history of education; college teachers; college graduates

The bilingual monograph entitled Polonistika v Olomouci v przeszłości a dnes / Polonistyka w Ołomuńcu dawniej i dziś is divided into four chronologically arranged sections. The picture of Olomouc polonistics in the more distant and recent years is enriched by medallions of Czech and Polish teachers in alphabetical order, memories and comments of Polish lecturers. In addition to the mostly older generation of teachers and lecturers, the younger and the youngest generation, graduates of master's studies and doctoral graduates, together with those who make up a very promising group of current doctoral students, and the final group consists of domestic and foreign collaborators.

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Multiculturalism - a lost paradigm?

Multikulturalismus – ztracené paradigma?

Author(s): Andrea Preissová Krejčí / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: multiculturalism; postmodernism; cultural diversity; multicultural education; multiculturalism

Although multiculturalism as a concept within the humanities is a somewhat exhausted topic, we want to define the space that remains unfilled within the multicultural approach in Czech society. Our aim is to draw attention to the possibilities of rethinking multicultural ideology on the basis of a critical approach to it and to the possibilities of its application in the spheres of education and training. We want to show how an overemphasis on ethnic differentiation devalues the goals of multiculturalism based on fair access even across other types of differences. Unless we set out ways of talking about the ideas of multiculturalism without narrowing the issue to ethnicity, we have no hope of adopting multicultural education as a necessary part of the school curriculum, as a platform for a new social paradigm.

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Changes in Czech and Polish border schools providing compulsory education after 1989

Proměny české a polské pohraniční školy poskytující povinné vzdělávání po roce 1989

Author(s): Jana Poláchová Vašťatková,Pawel Rudnicki / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: education; regional education; regional schools; compulsory education; educational policy; national curriculum; teacher career; comparative research

The book was written as an output of a project carried out in 2013-2014 at Palacký University in Olomouc in cooperation with a Polish partner, which was Dolnośląska Szkoła Wyższa in Wrocław. The aim of the project was to analyse the transformations of the Czech and Polish education systems providing compulsory education after 1989, focusing on specific regions (Olomouc and Moravian-Silesian regions and the Lower Silesian Voivodeship). The functions of schools were examined, with an emphasis on qualification, socialisation and integration, individualisation, cultural and ecological functions. The mixed research design, conceived comparatively, relied on data collection using different methods: document analysis, questionnaire and multiple case study. A specific feature of the project was the role of the researchers as cultural strangers: Czechs in Poland and Poles in the Czech Republic.

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Unconditional acceptance in child rearing

Bezvýhradná akceptace ve výchově dítěte

Author(s): Eva Šmelová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: preschool children; child rearing; developmental psychology; personality

Eva Šmelová's monograph Unconditional Acceptance in Child Rearing deals with the personality of the child as an independent, self-contained existence with an emphasis on the preschool age. The author presents theoretical background, elaborated on the basis of contemporary theories. The concept of the personality of the preschool child is put into context with the basic factors influencing the child's development. The text is supplemented by simple examples and at the same time by partial outputs of selected research conducted by the author in recent years. The book is intended especially for the professional public, but also for students of teaching.

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Organisational climate of teacher training faculties

Organizační klima fakult připravujících učitele

Author(s): Helena Grecmanová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: universities and colleges; faculties of education; college teachers; school environment; school management; questionnaires

The intention of the present book is to present an analysis of the organizational climate of the university environment, with a focus on faculties of education or faculties preparing teachers. The individual chapters reflect the challenges of the Bologna Process, characterise the workload of academics and address the theoretical underpinnings of the perception of the organisational climate of universities and faculties. An important contribution is the introduction to the actual research, the development and validation of research instruments. Therefore, the main part is devoted to the description of the stages of the development of questionnaires on the perception of organizational climate by academic staff, the methods of their validation and the design of a semi-structured interview sheet for research on the perception of organizational climate by faculties preparing teachers by their management.

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Language Use and Linguistic Structure. Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistic Colloquium 2023

Language Use and Linguistic Structure. Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistic Colloquium 2023

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Keywords: linguistics; general linguistics; morphology; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; phonology

The latest volume of OLINCO proceedings is a selected set of sixteen papers that grew from presentations at OLINCO 2023 - the international Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium held at Palacký University in June 2021. The papers collected here are unified by the topic of the colloquium: Language Use and Linguistic Structure, in that they all, in one way or the other, address the central questions of the study of human language. They all use standard scientific methodology and theory and solidly researched empirical evidence in favor of formalized structural representations of the language system.

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