Kvantitativněonomastická analýza Haškova Švejka a jeho tří parafrází

• Authors: Jaroslav David , Michal Místecký , Jana Davidová Glogarová

Title variants

EN

A quantitative onomastic analysis of Jaroslav Hašek’s Švejk and its three paraphrases

FR

Une analyse onomastique quantitative du Švejk de Jaroslav Hašek et de ses trois paraphrases

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This paper is a quantitative onomastic analysis of four works featuring the literary figure of Švejk. These are the original novel by Jaroslav Hašek, two retellings of the story from the period of WWII (1941 and 1945), and a 1970s–80s version by Martin Petiška, who moved the story to Czechoslovakia after the 1948 Communist coup. The analysis relies on the thematic concentration of text (with an emphasis on the role of proper nouns as thematic words) and collocation analysis of the proper noun Švejk. Its aim is twofold: first, to determine whether there are quantitatively detectable differences between the original work and its paraphrases concerning the use of proper names; and second, to determine whether there is a difference between the paraphrases and the original as regards the literary figure of Švejk. The analysis shows that the paraphrases reduce the text-type richness of the original, while maintaining Švejk as the protagonist. The paraphrases employ a popular interpretation of the main character (Švejk as a “smart idiot”), leaving aside other aspects of Hašek’s multi-layered novel. Partial shifts in the portrayal of the main character are related to his intellectualization or increased emotionality.

Keywords

CS

textová analýza; kvantitativní lingvistika; onomastika; literární onomastika; osobní jména; tematická koncentrace; kolokační analýza

EN

text analysis; quantitative linguistics; onomastics; literary onomastics; personal names; thematic concentration; collocation analysis

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: 2024
• Volume: 85
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 199-216
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

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Jaroslav David

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic

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Michal Místecký

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic

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Jana Davidová Glogarová

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic