Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(2):196-201
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):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):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):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):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):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):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):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):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):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...
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Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(1):182-205 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.010
The aim of the transdisciplinary case study is to analyse how the topic of abortion is captured in the novel Bílá Voda by Kateřina Tučková and how it is interpreted in the discourse of the author's media interviews. The novel characters Agnieszka, Maciek, Lena, sister Evarista, a Polish priest, and priest Stauber took a position on abortion in internal monologues or verbal statements; they use explicitly naturalistic arguments against abortion. The ideological message of the novel is unequivocally and repeatedly pro-life. In her media interviews though, the author declares that she rejects the Catholic church's stance on a woman's right to make decisions...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(1):154-181 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.014
The essay "Head-working Literature and Digital Communication" examines the transformation of literary communication in the era of digitization and new media. The author observes how technological developments are fundamentally changing the relationship between writing, reading, and the perception of literature in the context of a broader cultural shift from paper media to the digital environment. He shows that, just as theater responded to the advent of new technologies by oscillating between technical innovation and a return to authentic forms of human presence, literature also finds itself between two poles ‒ between the printed book as a symbol...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(1):128-153 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.030
The study attempts to place Karin Lednická's trilogy Šikmý kostel (The Leaning Church) within the framework of literary traumatology. This concept is understood as a flexible set of approaches that take into account memory, displacement, and collective experiences of suffering. Rather than focusing on primary textual analysis, the study draws from the novels' reception, which allows for an examination of their social effects. A key element is the vanished landscape of the town of Karviná, which functions as a medium of traumatic memory and a site of symbolic significance. The fictional narrative transforms memory traces into narratives that help shape...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(1):104-127 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.013
Although the term of magical realism has been used since the 1920s, it still seems to be somewhat contradictory and not fully understood. The present study deals, in its introduction, with the nature of the concept of magical realism in the context of literary criticism. Afterwards the study explores the phenomenon of magical realism in contemporary Czech prose, analysing its manifestations in the works of Antonín Bajaja, Anna Cima, Daniela Hodrová, Jáchym Topol, Miroslav Hlaučo, Markéta Pilátová, and Michal Ajvaz - special attention is paid to specific narrative strategies, particularly the blending of temporal planes and the interweaving of reality...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(1):84-103 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.004
The deteriorating publishing conditions in the period that followed after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 had far-reaching consequences. As early as the spring of 1969, publishing executives were altering editorial plans and removing politically problematic titles. In January 1970, a new censorship body was established at the Ministry of Culture of the Czechoslovak Republic, and the hitherto unclear censorship criteria began to take on concrete features. Several books that had already been printed but the Ministry forbade their distribution, they fell victim to this censorship. This harsh censorship practice also affected two books...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(1):56-83 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.012
This study examines literary and personal reflections on the period of the 1950s in the Zábrana family, focusing on three key texts: Ohlédnutí (1994) by Jiřina Zábranová, Celý život (1992) by Jan Zábrana, and Flashky (2014) by Eva Zábranová. These works offer a unique opportunity to look at the same decade through the eyes of three generations. Based on Philippe Lejeune's concept of the diary as "anti-fiction", Jan Patočka's concept of reflexivity, and Paul Ricœur's triple mimesis, this study outlines how each of the texts mentioned transforms personal experience into a testimony of time. Jiřina Zábranová's memoir documents the brutal realities...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(1):34-55 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.029
The study presents how the first president of Czechoslovakia, T. G. Masaryk, was portrayed in daily newspapers' Sunday sections for children in the interwar period. By comparing two diverse periodicals - Našim dětem from Naše politika and Tribuna mládeže from Tribuna - the author shows how these sections depicted Masaryk as a fatherly and self-sacrificing figure, as well as a leader and a liberator of the nation. In addition, they used similar motifs and narratives, for example, emphasizing his simple origins, his hard work and devotion to the country. Masaryk was presented as a role model for young readers, with the objective of fostering civic engagement...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(1):12-33 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.001
The manifesto published by Literární skupina (Literary Group) in 1922 attempted to synthesize and reinterpret numerous concepts appearing in the critical discourse of the early 1920s; among them, classicism and primitivism represented the desire for a new form of social poetry. These two directives were present in the young criticism as lessons of simplification and a sense of reality, as evidenced by the texts of Karel Teige and other critics in the circle of Devětsil. As a part of discussion with Devětsil on new/proletarian art, František Götz and Literární skupina promulgated the synthesis of classicism and primitivism in the manifesto. But subsequent...
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