The aim of this undergraduate thesis is to present the elementary differences between British and American English alongside with its influence on Czech native speakers when they are using the English language. The differences are described from the grammatical, phonetic and lexicological&#x...

The following thesis focuses on Hardy´s two Wessex novels, Far from the Madding published in 1874 and Tess of D´Urbervilles published in 1891. It concentrates on his partly dream, partly real country called Wessex. Especially it focuses on the displays of nature, weather and c...

This undergraduate thesis compares the football match reports published in the Daily Mail and The Guardian with the focus on finding distinctive features in the text. In fact, the analysis deals with more than just text. It examines the structure of the text, layout of th...

This work describes lexicographic principles used in contemporary monolingual English dictionaries and provides a comparison of four of the chief electronic dictionaries of this kind. The theoretical part describes the science of lexicography and the essence of computational lexicography along wi...

The intention of this thesis is the endeavour to approach the issue of the specific Welsh nationalism and related manifestations of Welsh identity in contemporary Wales. The theoretical background is inspired by sociological theories, which define nationalism as a social phenomenon, and ...

The work is concerned with a portrayal of women in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It describes their roles and position in medieval society and studies whether Chaucer provides faithful portrayal.

The main aim of this undergraduate thesis is to investigate the competition of individual means of expressing generic reference with the English nouns. This thesis contains theoretical background which is the first part of the work and also the analysis of the excerpts that fo...

The object of this undergraduate thesis is to cover the period of the Revolutionary War. It was the time when the thirteen colonies in North America wanted to break free from Britain. The thesis is separated into two main sections. The first section called Cultural ...

The aim of this thesis is to describe differences in communication between men and women. First part of this thesis is concerned with a complicated process of communication; it introduces its vital parts such as verbal and non-verbal communication and direct and indirect communicat...

This thesis is concerned with Thanksgiving Day in the United States of America, or, more precisely, with the first Thanksgiving in 1620. This feast is very popular with American culture and has also become one of its most important days.

The main object of this undergraduate thesis is the future of Uzbek Muslims currently living in the United States of America. The aim of the thesis is to familiarize the reader about the growing Uzbek nation in the USA: their history, beliefs, current life and predictions...

This thesis deals with the grammatical functions of English adverbials, especially with disjuncts. The main focus is set on their form, occurrence and means of realizations. Disjuncts are then properly analyzed on excerpts from the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins in practi...

This Bachelor Thesis deals with the present participle, its description, formation, usage and primarily with its function as premodifier and postmodifier of the nominal head in a complex noun phrase.

This undergraduate thesis deals with verbless constructions in English, it brings the view of the frequency of individual structures, the syntactic functions and semantic roles. First, theoretical background focuses on individual structures, which are subordinate verbless clauses, independent verbless ...

The aim of this undergraduate thesis is to analyse three novels from a contemporary, British author, Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan. The works chosen are written over a decade and include two novels, Atonement (2001) and Enduring Love (1997) and one novella On Chesil Beach...

This thesis deals with several literary works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the American writer. Its aim is to find connections with the early American history and Hawthorne's biography in the novels The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables and selected short stories.

This undergraduate thesis deals with the semantic and forms of the present tense with regard to their Czech equivalents.The theoretical background focuses on classification of a verb from syntactical and semantic point of view and the relation of these views to the tense system.&#x...

This thesis deals with Charles Dickens? concern with social issues of the Victorian era. It analyzes several of his novels from the point of view of social criticism and explains some of his beliefs and ideas in relation to them, mainly David Copperfield, American Notes f...

This bachelor thesis is concentrated on two of Jane Austen?s earlier works, namely ?Love and Freindship? written in 1790 and Lady Susan created in 1793-4. The aim is to observe and determine the development of young Jane Austen as the authoress expressing strong criticism of&#...

The aim of this thesis was to describe the history and the development of the Liberal Democrats from the origin of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party and their merge. The thesis also describes the power of the party in the past and present. The en...