This study describes the language persuasion of Václav Havel as translated and later published in the Polish press between 1990 and 1999. The translations present a natural continuation of his earlier essays and letters. This language persuasion has been subjected to analysis through detailing four kind of persuasion metaoperators to which belong the following: the verification blocking operator (assertiveness and judgment), operator causing the “observer effect,” the change of hierarchy of information sequence operator and the reinforcement of pragmatic function operator. This Czech author uses all possible means of persuasion and in a very obvious and open manner influences his audience. The effectiveness of this Czech president’s power of persuasion is underlined by the continued publishing of his essays which have been translated into many languages, including Polish.
The analysis is an attempt to scrutinize the linguistic picture of old age in the late works of the Czech Nobel laureate J. Seifert. The following study focuses on the last three poetry volumes of the author. The article presents an analysis of the semantic field of the old age as well as the function and the way in which the metaphors are applied in the works of the Czech poet. The article is based on the research methodology of the ‘linguistic picture of the world’. Nine major metaphorical schemes were distinguished and taken under examination. When describing old age, the dominant theme was: time, travelling, farewell, sand, water, fading fire, denial of youth, meeting the dead and reflections about life after death.
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Cílem studie je pokus oodhalení specifického autorského obrazu stáří vpozdní tvorbě českého nositele Nobelovy ceny Jaroslava Seiferta, jež zahrnuje tři poslední sbírky: Morový sloup, Deštník z Piccadilly, Býti básníkem. Hlavní pozornost byla zaměřená na rozbor sémantického pole stáří asoučasně byly analyzovány funkce azpůsoby užití metafor. Článek vychází zmetodologie opírající se oprincipy zkoumaní jazykového obrazu světa (resp. textového obrazu světa). Během práce bylo vyčleněno devět hlavních metaforických schémat, znichž dominantními jsou: čas, cestovaní, loučení, písek, voda, uhaslý oheň, negace mladí, setkaní sezesnulými, uvažování oživotě po smrti.
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