Užívání trpných příčestí v současných veřejných dialogických projevech

• Authors: Mrazkova K.

Title variants

EN

THE USE OF PASSIVE PARTICIPLES IN CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC DIALOGICAL DISCOURSE

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The Czech passive participle is often considered a bookish form whose usage is confined to written language, especially to technical and specialized literature. Czech speakers often use 'the long form' of the respective deverbative adjective instead of the passive participle and they do so ever more frequently, not only when speaking but often also when writing in Literary Czech. This situation has been the subject of discussion by Czech linguists for decades. The article presents the findings of a research based on the DIALOG corpus, a large linguistic corpus of contemporary spoken Czech containing transcripts of TV political debates and talk shows. The research reveals that the past participle forms are comparatively frequent in the corpus analysed, while, in contrast, the alternative forms of the long deverbative adjective used in a manner which can be classified as non-standard or non-literary are rare. The results also partly confirm that the passive voice of perfective verbs is considerably more common than that of imperfective verbs, while on the other hand the instances of imperfective passive forms found in the corpus show that their use is fully appropriate. The last section deals with the relation of the use of passive participles to code-switching between Literary and Colloquial Czech.

Keywords

EN

CODE-SWITCHING/MIXING; CORPUS LINGUISTICS; MEDIA DIALOGUE; PASSIVE PARTICIPLE; SPOKEN CZECH

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 68
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 3-22
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Mrazkova K.

• K. Mrazkova, Ústav pro jazyk ceský AV CR, v. v. i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07CZAAAA03076312