The aim of the thesis is to showcase frequent neologism usage among the gaming community, explain why it is a frequent phenomenon and analyse the processes that produce them. The theoretical part explains the most typical types of word formation, and furthermore ...

This paper concerns itself with the analysis and comparison of two fictional characters. The first character is the butler Stevens from the novel The Remains of the Day written by Kazuo Ishiguro. The second one is the majordomo Stevens, a character from one of Shakespeare'...

This study investigates a possible use of popular music to teach social justice and media literacy to secondary school students. A 31-question survey was distributed via social media and answers received from 47 respondents. My study shows a strong correlation between the application&#x...

This thesis deals with the importance of the British monarchy today. The first part is devoted to the history of the monarchy from its inception until the first half of the 20th century. The second part deals with the personalities and problems of the royal family in...

This thesis aims to analyse how intercultural values are reflected in chosen works of fan fiction written in English.

The thesis explores the internationally recognized novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun, to mention the most acclaimed books. The start of his career and thereby his initial novels deal with Japan and England,&#x...

This undergraduate thesis is concerned with the topic of borrowed words in English and it consists of three main parts. The first one provides theoretical information needed to understand the terminology related to borrowing, the second one describes briefly the evolution of English...

This undergraduate thesis is focused on the queer community and the specific vocabulary within this community. It aims to collect and explain these words as well as to gain information on how known they are among people within this community and outside of it. The&...

The bachelor thesis focuses on comparison of Yorkshire native speakers' pronunciation with Received Pronunciation and discloses up to what extent Yorkshire traditional phonetic features are represented in modern Yorkshire speech. The theoretical part of the thesis deals with the basic concept...

This focus of the thesis is on natural language, which, unlike artificial languages, used for example in programming, was formed by natural development and continues to develop dynamically. The thesis is divided into six chapters. The first chapter deals with the historical development&...

This thesis mainly focuses on the comparison of the main characters in two famous novels Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. In the novel Jane Eyre, the thesis will analyze the characters of Jane Eyre, Bertha Mason Rochester and the char...

The aim of the thesis is to summarize the theoretical background of borrowing English words to Czech and to further explore this topic. The theoretical part describes the history of Anglicisms in Czech and reasons why such words are borrowed at all, various possible mean...

This bachelor thesis deals with the notion of authenticity in hip hop subculture in American, global and Czech contexts. The aim of the thesis was to investigate the notion of authenticity in hip hop subculture and how it is affected by globalisation, localisation and intercul...

This bachelor thesis deals with reflexive verbs in English and Czech. The topic of reflexivity is described separately for each language and later compared. The theoretical part introduces reflexive verbs and their placement within grammar. Then the focus is on the most common clas...

This thesis deals with English idioms and their Czech counterparts. It aims to analyze selected idioms and compare them. The primary assumption is that most idioms are slightly modified and their meaning cannot be understood from the meaning of their components. This work&#x...

This undergraduate thesis deals with the three most dominant West Germanic languages - English, Dutch and German - and their historical development with respect to their phonologic systems and the orthographic realizations of the individual phonemes. For a sufficient context,&#...

Irish and English in Ireland have coexisted in Ireland for centuries and the aim of this thesis is to show the historical development of their relations, the status they enjoyed and their role in forming Irish identity. The period between the years 1890 and 1930 will ...

This undergraduate thesis focuses on the English past perfect, specifically, its forms, areas of use and its Czech equivalents. The main objective of this undergraduate thesis is to provide the reader with information about verbal tense and aspect of both the English and the C...

This thesis deals with several issues that are connected to football in England. The thesis is divided in five chapters. In the first three chapters the reader is introduced to basic theory and important background information that is connected to the issues. The last two ...

The bachelor thesis uses the fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro to deconstruct cultural stereotypes. In the theoretical part, the thesis introduces the issue of stereotypes from two points of view. The second, practical, part deconstructs the first three of Ishiguro's novels - A Pale Vi...