Our and foreign in the language and culture of Czechs from Ukraine

Analysis of writen and spoken texts by the Czech from Ukraine

Literariness and nonliterariness in corpora of written and spoken Czech: What does show the occurance of forms bychom, bysme, bych, bysem

Use of standard/nonstandard/hypercorrect forms of conditional in various types of texts, their occurance in corpora of spoken Czech

"One's one" and "foreign" from a functional point of view

Manifestation of foreignisms in the Czech communication: gradual asimilation, intratextual translation

I, You and They in Communication

In media dialogues, I represents a speaker, You a hearer, and They stands for their audiences. The paper discusses the triadic structure of TV dialogues (from interviews to talk-shows), and focuses on their audience design. It explores the ways, in which an interviewer and interviewee position themselves and construct their identities with respect to the viewer

Persuasiveness and sincerity

Analysis of advertising discourse

Women in TV interviews, discussions and debates

Demonstration of gender in speech

Time in the language and text

Semantics of the category of tense; time/tense in various styles and types of texts

Czech and gender linguistics. How to get rid of linguistic categories?

On markedness/unmarkedness of the generic masculine and on possibilities of expressing masculine and feminine gender in contemporary Czech