Bohemica Olomucensia: Časopis pro filologická a mezioborová studia (Journal for Philological and Interdisciplinary Studies) is a peer-reviewed journal published since 2009 (previously four times a year, since 2016 two to three times a year), primarily in print - however, all published issues are available in the journal archive in pdf format. From 2023 onwards, it is published electronically.
BO publishes original studies and articles, primarily in the field of Czech language and literature, but also linguistic and literary contributions of more general interest and contributions that reflect interdisciplinary contexts in art history and history. Space is also devoted to reviews and up-to-date information from linguistics and literary studies. Bohemica Olomucensia is aimed at linguists and literary scholars working in the field of Czech studies and other philological disciplines, as well as students and interested members of the general public.
The basic language of publication is Czech, but some contributions are published in world languages, as well as in Slovak, Polish, etc.
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Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):12-29 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.024
The paper examines reactive questions with the expression cože and divides them into a) questions by which the speaker asks the interlocutor to repeat his/her previous turn or part of a turn which the speaker did not understand; b) pragmatically stressed questions which perform the function of the so-called "newsmarks" and express the speaker's amazement, surprise at new information that he or she did not expect, or even his/her doubt, disbelief, disagreement. The research methodology is based on functional-stylistic and pragma-linguistic analysis, the questions with cože were taken from corpora of spoken and written Czech. It was possible to confirm...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):30-51 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.022
The paper focuses on the occurrence of functional-semantic shifts from full-meaning means to non-full-meaning grammatical means in the spoken communication. The author notes the penetration of desemantized analytical structures into speech. This mainly concerns the functional transposition of fixed forms of nouns, verbs, and adverbs to prepositional and conjunctive expressions and their appropriate description in new functions. The text takes into account secondary forms that are neutralized (kvůli, mimoto), not fully anchored in terms of part of speech (formou, eventuálně), and multi-word forms with a written language feature (na základě, po stránce,...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):52-63 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.021
Epistemic attitudes, expressed by epistemic particles in addition to modal verbs and verbs of thought, are a component of the semantic structure of statements typically with a declarative form, i.e. of indicative or conditional statements, signalling the (real or conditional) validity of content. Epistemic particles express different degrees of the speaker's certainty about the validity of the statement content. However, we also find particles of epistemic modality in constructions with the imperative form of the verb. The morphological imperative is the primary means of expressing mainly two communicative-attitudinal categories: command and prohibition....
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):64-87 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.017
This article focuses primarily on theoretical issues related to linguistic economy with regard to lexical blending. We present the concept of blended words and their structure with a focus on English and Slovak. The result of our observations is a different perception of the structural types that form the basis for the creation of blended words. The structural types established so far cannot be considered unambiguous. Linguistic reality shows that they are no longer satisfactory, as crosswords are highly unpredictable. Therefore, we will focus on several aspects of linguistic economy and how crosswords can be formed not only positively but also negatively....
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):88-105 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.023
Idiomatic expressions represent the key element of the language, expressing culture, history, and the mindset of the society. Their interpretation might be difficult for non- -native speakers, as their meaning not always follows from the context. Idiomatic units make it possible to observe the relation between the language and the linguistic image of the world. Prominent idioms are those featuring colours which carry symbolic, cultural, and emotional values. The theoretical frame of this work is the model developed by Berlin and Kay, which defines criteria for basic colour terms, and emphasizes the universal primacy of white and black as fundamental...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):106-123 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.019
This study explores the suprasegmental dialect feature of penultimate stress (paroxytonic accent) in the South Bohemian dialect, specifically within the Doudleby subdialect. It analyzes the frequency and function of this feature across four generations of speakers (born between 1870 and 2010), focusing on multisyllabic words in the core of utterances. Using the perceptual and instrumental analysis via Praat, the study reveals that penultimate stress occurs most frequently in the emphatic speech and is more common in longer words. Statistical results show a generational decline in usage - from 44.41 % in the oldest group to 21.70 % in the youngest -...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):124-139 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.015
The study presents findings from an analysis of dialogues by non-professional speakers, with the aim of identifying contemporary tendencies in the regional Czech pronunciation. The focus is placed on the production of the glottal stop and prosthetic sounds. The previous research has suggested that speakers from Moravian and Silesian regions exhibit a tendency to omit the glottal stop. A non-standard phonetic feature is the occurrence of prosthesis - the insertion of [v] or [h] preceding vowel-initial words. The corpus includes speech samples by 58 speakers representing four dialect groups: Bohemian, Central Moravian, Eastern Moravian, and Silesian....
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):140-153 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.018
This article examines the link between the voice technique and the speech culture in public and professional communication. While the spoken communication training is more common, systematic voice education remains mainly in artistic schools. The text connects speech culture, focusing on standard pronunciation, articulation, phrasing, and tempo, with voice training, developing breath support, posture, and resonance. It argues that the effective speech requires awareness of physiological processes underlying voice production: posture shapes breathing, breathing influences resonance, and both affect tempo, intelligibility, and listener perception. The...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):154-173 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.026
The author of the paper analyses the issue of Czech pronunciation of Polish students of Czech Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, whose selected pronunciation difficulties persist throughout bachelorʼs and masterʼs studies. The author illustrates the pronunciation issues of Polish students with examples from her own practice in teaching Czech as a foreign language. She proceeds from an acoustic analysis of speech to the presentation and comparison of selected problematic phonetic-phonological features of Czech and Polish. Using the research of interpreting studies and neuroscience, the author argues that foreign language pronunciation...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):174-193 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.020
The study examines the word order of pronouns functioning as modifiers or determiners within the noun phrase in Jan Hus's Czech-language treatises. It follows up on Navrátilová (2024), which focused on the word order of noun phrases in Hus's Czech and Latin correspondence. The present study thus constitutes a part of the broader research on word order in Hus's Czech- and Latin-language texts, with a particular focus on the noun-phrase syntax. The primary aim is to determine whether the word order of noun phrases in the Czech treatises differs from that found in Hus's Latin and Czech letters, and whether the genre of a given text therefore constitutes...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):196-201
