This bachelor thesis deals with the novel The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. The goal of this thesis is to explore the influence of themes of culture on the novel and describe the novel through the framework of several cultural theories. The thesis ...

The thesis English Native Teachers in Plzeň deals not only with the under-researched topic of native speakers of English who teach in Czech education institutions, but also with the history of the English language in the Czech Republic and its position in the Czech education&#...

The aim of the thesis is to discover which variant of English do Czech students from Západočeská univerzita in Pilsen prefer and use. Because all the respondents study English in education, one of the objectives was to find out which variety of English should be instructe...

Czech learners of English commonly face many difficulties in course of their English pronunciation acquisition. Correct, or at least intelligible, pronunciation of a language is vital for understanding other people. This study aims to investigate seven problematic areas of English pro...

This thesis deals with English supplementive clauses and their Czech equivalents. It describes grammatical categories of the adverbial element from the point of view of a number of linguists due to various approaches on the element. Supplementive clauses are introduced and investigated ...

The thesis deals with the analysis of literary pieces Waiting written by Ha Jin, and The Refugees written by Viet Thanh Nguyen. The object od the thesis is the analysis and comparison of the texts from an anthropological viewpoint using terms from cultural dimension theory.&#x...

This undergraduate thesis deals with Danish and Czech culture, their differences, similarities and comparison through using cultural intelligence with focus on education system. This work discusses, how could Danish teaching methods be applied in Czech environment and that they could have po...

This bachelor thesis deals with the topic of immigration in the films District 9 and Children of Men. The aim was to compare the two films in terms of migration and to find out whether real events and stories of immigrants inspired the creators, and whether the ...

The thesis deals with the most frequent mistakes in English pronunciation made by Czech students. First, the theoretical background explains the crucial terms of phonetics, presents the IPA and provides the classification of English phonemes. The practical part analyses recordings of the...

This thesis includes three chapters that work with three values of the English - privacy, home and gossip. It describes the historical context of these values and explains the connection between them. The thesis works with theories of two great anthropologists, Kate Fox and Je...

The Brontë sisters lived in the Victorian era, a time of much change in education. This thesis describes some of these changes and how the sisters' lives were influenced by education in this period. Both historical accounts of education in Victorian England, as well as...

This bachelor thesis deals with the topic of immigration in the books The Tortilla Curtain, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and Lucy. The aim was to compare all of these three books in terms of migration, integration, and the response towards the immigrants. The thesis includes ...

The object of this undergraduate thesis is video games and their benefits for players in intercultural interactions. The goal of this thesis is to explore and clarify ways in which video games improve the cultural intelligence of players, mainly because the general public perceives...

The aim of this thesis was to examine the connection between reading fiction literature and CQ and empathy. This work provides theoretical background on cultural intelligence, empathy and fiction. It describes the requirements a work of fiction should meet in order to help with...

This thesis deals with the problem of translation of idioms in film subtitles. It aims to study different approaches and quality of translation done by a professional translator and by amateur ones. The primary presupposition is that idioms are more misunderstood and wrongly transl...

The thesis deals with comparison of proverbs in English and their equivalents in Czech. There are two main parts of the thesis, Theoretical Background and Practical Part. In the Theoretical Background there is introduced the term 'proverb'. The description of the terms necessary...

This thesis deals with Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters. It analyses excerpts from the book and compares them with Shakespeare's plays that have inspired the book - Hamlet and Macbeth. The thesis has three chapters. The first studies the settings, themes and characters of Wyr...

This bachelor thesis describes the use of a gerund within a sentence structure and looks at all the possible syntactic roles. First, the theoretical part deals with the ing-form of a verb as such and it explains why it can be considered a deverbal noun, participle an...

This undergraduate thesis is focused on the occurrence of transferred meaning in fairy tale genre. Accordingly, to allocate transfer of meaning in the text it is necessary to understand semantics - meaning, components of meaning, changes of meaning, transfer of meaning and figurative&#x...

This thesis focuses on figures of speech used in English song lyrics and on the way they are translated into the Czech version of the lyrics. The aim of this work is to compare the used language means in English song lyrics and their translated counterparts in o...