Tematická koncentrace textu – některé aspekty autorského stylu Ladislava Jehličky

• Authors: Jana Davidová Glogarová , Radek Čech

Title variants

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THEMATIC CONCENTRATION OF A TEXT – SOME ASPECTS OF LADISLAV JEHLICKA’S AUTHORIAL STYLE

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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Analysis of thematic concentration is a method for the detection of thematic words and quantification of thematic concentration in a text. This method was applied to articles by the Czech Catholic writer and journalist Ladislav Jehlička from the period 1936–1942. The aim was to compare two sets of texts: texts that are considered by literary theorists to be ‘problematic’ due to their expression of extreme right-wing views, and texts that are ‘neutral’, dealing only with general social questions. We expect that, in view of the choice of theme, the ‘problematic’ texts will be more influenced by the author’s ideological stance, which in turn will be reflected in the linguistic characteristics of the texts. We then compare texts published under Jehlička’s real name with those which appeared under the pseudonym ‘Eljen’. The results reveal a surprisingly small presence of words expressing a right-wing stance or ‘problematic’ themes (e.g., fascism, Jewish) among so called thematic words as well as an independence of the thematic concentration of ideology. Finally, a non-significant difference between Jehlička’s and Eljen’s texts can be viewed as a proof of the author’s relatively stable style.

Keywords

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anti-Semitism; Fascism; ideology; journalism; Ladislav Jehlička; nationalism; Nazism; quantitative linguistic analysis; thematic concentration of the text

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše řeč (Our Speech)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 96
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 234-246
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

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Jana Davidová Glogarová

• Ústav pro regionální studia FF OU, Ostrava, Czech Republic

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Radek Čech

• Katedra českého jazyka FF OU, Ostrava, Czech Republic