This thesis deals with the transfer of meaning, as well as other figures of speech found in famous quotes. Its aim is to study the frequency in which the quotes occur and the effect to which the meaning are subjected to during translation from English into Czech ...

This thesis deals with the gerund and infinitive. It includes their definition, description of their syntactic functions and classification of verbs which may be complemented with the infinitive and the gerund.

The thesis deals with an English imperative sentence, both in terms of form and function. The paper consists not only of the theory of the whole topic but also of the practice - the analysis of the 205 imperative clauses implemented in the form of commentary at ...

Bachelor work focuses on human nature on the background of Gulliver´s Travels. The main focus lies on the chapter Voyage to Houyhnhnms. The work compares the society and style of living of Houyhnhnms, humans and Yahoos and discusses if Swift´s description represent more Utopia ...

I dedicated my Bachelor thesis to women. I described, how important it was for women to read novels. How creating relations in the 19th century was closely connected with reading literature together, common debates and reflections about books. I also devoted part of&#x...

The subject of this bachelor thesis is the British novel Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Brontë. This work aims to primarily enlighten the protagonist character of Jane, who is herself a (proto)feminist. On account of that, it introduces the concept of feminism and its inherent...

The undergraduate thesis concentrates on the connection between real women in Thomas Hardy's life and the heroines of his novels, namely Bathsheba Everdene in Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess Durbeyfield in Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and it ascertains whether the heroines...

The goal of this bachelor thesis is to investigate the manner and the degree of anthropomorphization of an animal hero in selected works of English written literature: Wind in the Willows by K. Grahame, Animal Farm by G. Orwell, Watership Down by R. Adams. In the the...

Based on my own experience and the respondents' answers the main aim will be to compare these results with the theoretical sources and have these real life examples as clues or things that a person might encounter when interacting on a cross cultural level and to ...

The object of this undergraduate thesis is to explore cultural differences between Czechs and Americans at Josiah Venture English Camp, which is an intensive week course of learning English, and to introduce the concept of Cultural Intelligence (CQ) with the emphasis on David Liver...

The aim of this undergraduate was to provide a comprehensive theoretical overview of use of the personal pronoun "it" from the morphological and syntactical point of view. The theoretical base is formed by two main blocks dealing with morphological and syntactical aspects sepa...

This undergraduate thesis deals with the negation in the English language. The work is divided into two parts - the theoretical background and the particle analysis. The theoretical background describes the negation in general and defines the individual forms of the negation....

The purpose of the present bachelor thesis is to investigate the use and forms of computer mediated communication (CMC) among English speakers. Initially, the thesis explains differences between spoken and written form of the language. It closely explores mainly the area of writte...

The work deals with mechanisms which allow the transfer of meaning. The first part is theoretic, there are following expressions explained: metaphor, metonymy, simile, personification, euphemism, oxymorone, hyperbole,synecdoche, idiom. In the second part there are more than 160 examples of figura...

This thesis deals with the phenomenon of misheard lyrics called mondegreens. The thesis is divided into six main chapters. The first and the second chapter define the linguistic categories into which mondegreens belong. The following chapter describes mondegreens and similar phenomena. The&#...

This undergraduate thesis deals with social classes in contemporary Britain. In the theoretical background, the historical development of classes is described with a special emphasis on the social changes caused by Thatcherism. The working class especially suffered major changes during that ...

This work describes the structure of general English linguistic dictionaries that are saved on various media of recordings and provides a comparison of six selected dictionaries. The theoretical part states the role of the lexicography in connection to dictionary-making, describes the word&#...

This thesis focuses on the language of electronic communication and its development. The aim was to explore the usage of various means of and methods of electronic language, specifically the usage of acronyms, initialisms, word reduction and letter/number homophones. These means are...

This thesis is based on my personal cultural exploration in the United States of America and works by David Livermore and Erin Meyer. It examines the notion of culture with its characteristics and measuring tools, cultural intelligence and a guide how to develop and improve&#x...

This undergraduate thesis deals with English idioms from the semantic and formal point of view. The thesis is divided into two chapters - theoretical background and practical analysis. Theoretical background provides basic characteristics and definitions of idioms and the theory behind ...