Categorisation of plants in Czech phraseology

Categorisation of plants in Czech phraseology

Author(s): Grażyna Balowska / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2015

Keywords: linguistic categorisation;scientific categorisation;Czech language;phraseology;plant names

This article presents an analysis of phraseological units with the plant component as found in contemporary Czech. The focus is on the set of features attributed to individual specimens of flora which reflect patterns of categorisation with reference to, for example, physical characteristics (shape, colour, taste, scent), useful properties, and behaviour. Categorisation is understood here as one of the possible tools of organizing and interpreting reality. The concept of categorisation refers to the pre-scientific (naive) commonplace perception of the world which involves the foregrounding those features which are relevant from a human perspective and ignoring those which are insignificant.

Bohemistic interests of Professor Ewa Siatkowska

Bohemistyczne zainteresowania Profesor Ewy Siatkowskiej

Author(s): Mieczysław Balowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2015

60 years of Bohemistic Studies. Czech-Hungary cultural contacts, creation of Slavic and Bohemistic Studies on the University of Budapest

60 let oboru bohemistika. Česko-maďarské kulturní styky, vznik slavistiky a českého oboru na budapešťské univerzitě

Author(s): Veronika Heé / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 4/2015

Reflections on Insignificance and Ways of Viewing it (Milan Kundera: »The Festival of Insignificance«– »La fiesta de la insignificancia«)

Reflexe bezvýznamnosti a její možnosti zření (Milan Kundera: »Oslava bezvýznamnosti« – »La fiesta de la insignificancia«)

Author(s): Svatava Urbanová / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 1/2016

Keywords: Milan Kundera;The Festival of Insignificance;frequent themes;models and motifs;phenomenological filiation

The study analyses the most recent novel by Milan Kundera The Festival of Insignificance. The novel explores themes such as existential models and motif variations from previous works by the author including numerous phenomenological filiations. The study theorizes about possible interpretations of the title of the book and the fates of the characters within the life struggles of the given time. It does not exclude the border between life and death. It seeks out answers to questions which emerge and are linked with the position of humans and the roles of one’s own picture of in the eyes of others. The reader becomes witness to both private and public festivals, with both of them, however, bearing the marks of their participants and being connected to the world as a theatrum mundi in which everything is relative.

Rhetoric of eroticism in the works of Milan Kundera

Retoryka erotyzmu w prozie Milana Kundery

Author(s): Anna Maria Skibska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2016

Keywords: rhetoric;eroticism;style;semiotic;symbolic;substitution

In the essay, I make an attempt to explore a question of style, derived from Nietzsche’s discourse devoted to a figure of woman. Re-written subsequently by Derrida, the discourse itself turns out to be organized around the convoluted rhetoric events which are to reveal and at the same time conceal the representation of woman in both languages: of philosophy and of literature. As is well known, Kundera’s novels and essays consist in a significant and sometimes ambivalent confrontation occurring between these two languages, which also result in feminine characters’ construction often subordinated to the dominant rhetoric of eroticism. Furthermore, this rhetoric determines the dualistic perspective regarding the lovers’ relationships, according to which the image of woman is considered on different levels (i.e. as a reduction to the bodily ego, or emotional drive acting between sex and sublimation, etc.), which, however, always refer to the figurative procedure of transformation.

Collectivization in Czech – literary images alternately in the Czechoslovak village after World War II

Kolektywizacja po czesku – literackie obrazy przemian na czechosłowackiej wsi po II wojnie światowej

Author(s): Dorota Bielec / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2016

Keywords: communism collectivization of the village;persecution;displacement;propaganda;ideology

The process of collectivization and modernization of the Czech and Slovak village, which took place at the turn of the 40th and 50th years of the twentieth century, in official propaganda was presented as a success story. He had to ensure the welfare of the Czechoslovak farmers to teach them modern farming, and also to realize them politically. Propaganda films from this period presents satisfied farmers who voluntarily and with a smile sticking with agricultural cooperatives. However the reality was significantly different from the picture presented to the public. This reality – of persecution, displacements, and very skeptical approach of rural residents to the communist ideologues perpetuated three literary texts, which are the basis of my reflection – these are novel of Ivan Klima Godzina ciszy, Ludvík Vaculík Sekyra and Jiří Hájíček Selský baroko. The date of their establishment is divided over 50 years and this by itself is of great importance – they stand on two poles in terms of distance in time to the events described in them. The aim of the article is therefore an attempt to confront the two images and determine whether over time the vision of those events subject to some transformations and corrections.

»Válka je holka moje«. The soldier in songs by Karel Kryl

»Válka je holka moje«. Żołnierz w pieśniach Karela Kryla

Author(s): Kamil Dźwinel / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2016

Keywords: Czech literature;bard;songs;Karel Kryl

The article presents a thread related to the artist’s frequent use of the subjective point of view of a wandering through the world soldier – recurrent in the songs by Karel Kryl – a Moravian bard, “troubadour of the Prague Spring”. Life on an exile, constant separation, longing and also uncertainty of what was left behind and what is yet to come – are in Kryl’s way a framework of existential issues shaping his songs. The article’s aim is also to point other theme dominants of songwriter’s creation, which allow him to articulate a full range of feelings – in its complicated multidimensionality, still with a clear presence of emptiness, loneliness, homelessness.

Old Czech song »Noci milá«

Staročeská píseň »Noci milá«

Author(s): František Všetička / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 1/2016

Keywords: Old Czech poem;element of integration;framing;punchline

Old Czech poem Noci milá from the 14th century is based on the element of integration of „milá“ (and its variations). It was also framed and provided with a punchline by an anonymous author. The whole poem composition proves that it belongs to the late Old Czech class of amorous lyrics.

Wojna – retoryka walki, red. Joanna Goszczyńska, Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2015, 258 s. ISBN 978–83–64111–18–1

Wojna – retoryka walki, red. Joanna Goszczyńska, Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2015, 258 s. ISBN 978–83–64111–18–1

Author(s): Anna Gawarecka / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2016

Alena Trnková is gone

Odešla Alena Trnková

Author(s): Jiří Hasil / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 1/2016

The International Scientific Conference »Chaos i ład w języku i literaturze czeskiej«, Racibórz–Głubczyce 3–4.09.2015 r.

Międzynarodowa konferencja naukowa »Chaos i ład w języku i literaturze czeskiej«, Racibórz–Głubczyce 3–4.09.2015 r.

Author(s): Grażyna Balowska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2016

Germanisms in the field ‘world around man’in the dialect (hantec) of Brno and dialect city of Poznan

Germanizmy w polu świat wokół człowieka w brneńskim hantecu i gwarze miejskiej Poznania

Author(s): Błażej Osowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2016

Keywords: urban dialect;Poznań;hantec;germanisms;semantic structure

The article analyzes the semantic field around the world human and it’s individual subfields in the urban dialect of Brno and Poznan from germanism’s point of view. The analysis carried out in the context of a comparative reveal differences and common ground between the material and indicate their reasons for referring to the context of the historical-cultural-socially.

Names of dining in Opava

Nazwy lokali gastronomicznych w Opawie

Author(s): Samuela Tomasik / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2016

Keywords: Czech language;onomastics;chrematonyms;names of dining

This article presents proper names of restaurants in Opava. The analysis demonstrates that the ways of nominalisation are based on onymisation and transonymisation, applied to diffrent types of proper names. The presented classification is based on motivational models. The author attempts to answer the following questions: why restaurants are given their names? Who uses such names? Do those names carry any information?

Sketches of dialectology Czech language. 2. Traditions of the Czech dialectology from the beginning of World War II

Szkice z dialektologii języka czeskiego. 2. Tradycje czeskiej dialektologii od jej zarania do II wojny światowej

Author(s): Irena Bogoczová / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2016

Keywords: J. Blahoslav;A. V. Šembera;V. J. Dušek;F. Bartoš.;B. Havránek;O. Hujer;F. Trávníček;Czech-Slavonic Ethnographic Exhibition;Czechoslovak Homeland Study;neogrammarianism;areal linguistics

At the beginning of the present article the period when dialectology was still taking shape is mentioned. Occasional descriptions of dialects were initially unsystematic and did not go beyond the possibilities of grasping a problem methodologically as it was common for 19th century linguistics. The approach of neogrammarians (also young grammarians) was beneficial in the sense that the phenomena were described in detail, consistently and to a large extent truly; the first works on dialectology were very accurate and linguistic phenomena were fairly and sufficiently presented in them. The wider scientific community was encouraged to collect dialectal material mainly by the organizers of an ethnographic exhibition, relating to the material and spiritual culture of Czech, Moravian and Slovak people (in the broader context of Slavic culture), which was held in 1895. Furthermore, in the article are described the results of the inter-war Czech dialectology which mainly includes comprehensive studies by Bohuslav Havránek and Václav Vážný. The new concept of dialectology was marked by the structuralism.

The image of Czechs and other nations in the Czech, online discourse. Possible new national auto- and stereotypes?

Obraz Czechów i innych narodów w czeskim dyskursie internetowym. Możliwe nowe auto- i stereotypy narodowe?

Author(s): Anna Zura / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2016

Keywords: national stereotypes;online discourse;Czech nation

The issue of creating the images of Czechs, the Czech nation and other nations which appear in the Czech internet discourse, have been discussed in the article. The basis for understanding the linguistic image of the Czechs, are the discussions on internet forums, which on one hand can solidify in the Czech mental-linguistic consciousness the Czech self-image, and on the other constitute the base for creating new auto-stereotypes. The analysis considers also the reference of Czechs to other nations, basing on which, the process of operating the vernacular conceptualization of reality has been followed through. Basing on the analyzed linguistic material, schemes of a mental-linguistic opposition of a “us-them” type have been developed on a number of levels. These oppositions fit the linguistic definition of the stereotype. In the conclusion it has been stated that the discussions on internet forums, not only solidify the stereotypes which exist for many years in the Czech society, but may become the basis for spreading new ones, which are mostly negative and serve the purpose of a quick psychosocial assessment of a given nation.

Evolution of the linguistic awareness of the Czechs after 1989

Ewolucja świadomości językowej Czechów po 1989 roku

Author(s): Wojciech Hofmański / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2016

Keywords: Czech language;Slovak language;language planning;linguistic awareness

This paper is devoted to the formation of the linguistic awareness of the Czechs after 1989. Rapid changes in the linguistic and paralinguistic reality of the past 25 years are associated with the Velvet Revolution and the division of Czechoslovakia. The most important changes in the linguistic awareness of the Czechs after 1989 are the gradual increase in the social acceptance of the colloquial language and lack of objection against the progression of brutalization of the language of public debate. This can be interpreted as the disappearance of the need to aestheticise the language and also as an aversion to, in its broadest sense, the Czech language culture. The most important change, however, seems to be a lack of awareness that the society is bilingual and that Czech-Slovak communication within the society is possible.

Old Bohemian manuscripts in the National Library in Vienna

Staroczeskie rękopisy w Bibliotece Narodowej w Wiedniu

Author(s): Mieczysław Balowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2016

Slavic reception of works of Rainer Maria Rilke

Slovanské recepce díla Rainera Maria Rilka

Author(s): Viktor Viktora / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 2/2016

Laudatio on the Occasion of the Ceremony of Awarding the Title of Doctor Honoris Causa prof. PhDr. Rudolf Šrámek, Ph.D.

Laudatio u příležitosti udělení titulu doctor honoris causa prof. PhDr. Rudolfu Šrámkovi, CSc.

Author(s): Aleš Zářický / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 2/2016

About the language and culture of language

O jazyce a jazykové kultuře

Author(s): Rudolf Šrámek / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 2/2016