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“SHOULD SOUTH INDIANS LEARN HINDI? WHY OR WHY NOT?”

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Rácová A.
Asian and African Studies
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2020
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vol. 29
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issue 2
204 – 238
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The complicated linguistic situation in India, which is a consequence of the great number of languages in the country and their different status, is regulated by the Constitution of India of 1950. It declares Hindi and English to be the official languages of the Republic of India. Besides these two, it mentions another 122 languages (22 scheduled and 100 non-scheduled ones). The language policy of the Union is further particularized by other laws and regulations, which are issued by the Department of Official Language, and the president’s acceptances of language acts and recommendations. Regulations sporadically spark discussions on language. People usually hear from politicians, members of relevant commissions, and journalists, but the views of ordinary speakers of Indian languages are far less known. They are the subject of my analysis of the Internet discussion which appeared on Quora Digest in 2014 ̶ 2017 in response to the actions of Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi and President Pranab Mukherjee, who, in 2014 and 2017 respectively, advocated a wider use of Hindi. The participants in the discussion respond to the question: “Should South Indians learn Hindi? Why or why not?”, which eventually sparked questions about whether they really want to consider themselves as Indians and why South Indians do not learn Hindi if they can learn English. Its analysis is summarized in the following sections: I. Hindi as the official/national language of the Republic of India; II. Reasons to learn/not learn Hindi, the quality of Hindi instruction; III. Attitudes towards native Hindi speakers; IV. Attitudes towards English; V. Attitudes towards the need for one common language for the whole Union.
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PLURÁLOVÉ PODOBY S CUDZOU GRAMATICKOU KONCOVKOU –S V SLOVENČINE

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Petráš P.
Slovenská reč (Slovak Language)
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2017
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vol. 82
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issue 3
282 – 295
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The aim of the article is to discuss the indeclinable English loan words that are used in contemporary Slovak in the singular and in their plural form, i.e. with the original –s ending. In the article three such nouns (show – shows, star – stars, and headline – headlines) are analysed. The author examines in what contexts and registers they frequently appear in. As it is, these words are often to be found in the media and the mass media (advertising, etc.) and in show business. They have already permeated from these registers into the colloquial language, as seen for example on internet discussion boards. Even though there are not so many words like these in Slovak, their frequency of use is rather high. The possibility of distinguish between the plural form and the singular form may help in cases where the grammatical number is vague, perhaps due to the lack of context.
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ON NON-NATIVE SPEAKER EMAIL COMMUNICATION FROM A REGISTER PERSPECTIVE (REDUCED VS FULL FORMS)

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Pikhart J.
Motus in verbo: časopis mladej vedeckej generácie
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2015
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vol. 4
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issue 1
54 – 63
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The present article offers a register analysis of 57 informal emails produced by Czech learners of English of the intermediate level of proficiency. The register (lexical-grammatical) analysis builds upon Biber and Conrad (2009). First, the situational characteristics of the register are described. A number of lexical-grammatical features are subsequently examined. More specifically, the paper focuses on the use of full as well as short forms as features typical of written and spoken language. The results show and corroborate the assumption that both forms can be found in the pieces of writing under investigation.
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Vytýkací konstrukce v angličtině a v norštině. Kontrastivní studie

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Mojzisova K.
Časopis pro moderní filologii (Journal for Modern Philology)
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2011
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vol. 93
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issue 2
95-103
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The paper compares the cleft construction in English and Norwegian. The analysis is carried out on a sample of 100 English and 100 Norwegian examples translated from Czech. The paper focuses on the motivation for the use of the cleft construction. There are three main types of motivation described here: FSP, textual and syntactic. The FSP motivation is recognised either when the Czech original includes some explicit focusing device or when the only function of the cleft is to give more prominence to the focused element. The types of textual motivation analysed in this thesis are contrast, selection, identification, summarising function, topic launching and topic linking. The syntactic motivation appears to play its role in English clefts with a negative or restrictive adjunct in focus because the non-cleft counterpart would require an S-V inversion and would be stylistically marked. The second type of syntactic motivation appears in Norwegian interrogative clefts. The main function of the cleft construction in these sentences is to move the rhematic element from the subject position.
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K PREKLADU ANGLICKÝCH KOLOKÁCIÍ DO SLOVENČINY V BELETRII

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Jakubičková B.
Slovenská reč (Slovak Language)
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2021
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vol. 86
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issue 3
328 – 353
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This paper focuses on the translation of chosen English collocations in fiction into Slovak. The research source used is the Slovak National Corpus. Altogether forty-five collocations are presented and five of them are analysed in greater detail. Two research objectives are set in order to look at the discussed topic in a more precise and comprehensive way. The research findings show that thirty English collocations (67 %) are free word combinations in their translation into Slovak. However, one of the translation equivalents (2 %) is a collocation and fourteen of them (31 %) are idioms. Therefore, the context and the translator´s decisions seem to play a very important role in the process of translating collocations.
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„ЗАВИСТЬ“ В ПОЭТИЧЕСКИХ И ПРОЗАИЧЕСКИХ ТЕКСТАХ РУССКОГО, АНГЛИЙСКОГО И СЛОВАЦКОГО ЯЗЫКОВ

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Grigorjanová T., Matytcina M. S.
Slavica Slovaca
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2016
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vol. 51
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issue 1
44 - 51
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The article deals with verbalization of emotion „envy” on the material of Russian, English and Slovak languages that allows us to determine the specifics of functioning the emotion under investigation in different types of texts. The authors make an attempt of a comprehensive conceptual analysis of the objectification of emotion envy as the fragment of the national linguistic worldview in languages with different structures: Slavic languages in comparison with a Germanic language, and to establish some specific features of emotional worldviews in the studied linguistic cultures. The study and the description of emotions are in the centre of the interests of anthropological linguistics because reflecting separate fragments of the linguistic worldview helps to show the nations’ mentalities through the language. The issue of universality, on the one hand and cultural identity of emotions on the other hand, is one of the leading topics of the discussion in the mainstream of contemporary linguistics. The article shows that study of emotions as an element of ethnic identity of an individual speaker and a group of people contributes to a better understanding of cultural peculiarities in Russian, English and Slovak worldviews.
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NOMINATION OF EXTRAMARITAL RELATIONS IN THE LANGUAGE OF TRADITIONAL FOLK CULTURE (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN COMPARISON WITH ENGLISH)

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Tyshchenko O., Iermachkova O., Malaniuk M.
Slavica Slovaca
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2021
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vol. 56
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issue 2
205 - 225
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Verbalization of the idea of family and matrimonial relations in different languages as well as the representation of underlying language and conceptual pictures of the world, cognitive, ethical and axiological senses and conceptions are directly related to the notion of anti-norm (adultery, breaking of marriage oaths, concubinage, etc.) and, in particular, to the conceptualization of the special status of children born within these relations (the illegitimate child). The latter are very often explicitly negatively marked and connoted or nominated by means of euphemisms. This article represents the frame-modelling of the concept of the “illegitimate child”, and highlights the ways of its nomination in imagery and the main directions of linguistic conceptualization of anti-marriage in the Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish, Czech and Slovak languages compared to English. It focuses on semantic phraseological filling of the corresponding sub-frames (phrases, stable word combinations, euphemisms, proverbs endowed with cultural symbolism, in particular stereotypes, beliefs, prohibitions and other folk conceptions). It reveals the existing semantic profiles and cultural codes that participate in the nomination of these ethnic cultural senses (existential, floral, landscape, spatial-locative, etc.). The description of Slavonic, in particular, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech and Slovak material requires applying the methodology of structural semantic modelling of phraseological units developed in Slavonic ethno-phraseology. We treat the anti-concept absence of marriage as opposite to the sphere of marriage (legal matrimonial relations) that encloses: The sub-frame of the birth of an illegitimate child in the unity of actional, objective and verbal codes in the cultural text and in dialectal phraseology; The complex of ethno-cultural conceptions connected to the natural marriage (linguistic and cultural image of the so called “living on faith”, concubinage, especially the explication of the related symbolic function of things and realia.
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O NIEKTORÝCH LINGVISTICKÝCH PROBLÉMOCH V TEÓRII VEREJNEJ SPRÁVY

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Nemec J., Kukliš P.
Právny obzor. Teoretický časopis pre otázky štátu a práva (Juridical Review. Theoretical journal for the questions of state and law)
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2015
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vol. 98
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issue 6
602 – 611
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A clear language is necessary and ultimate precondition for proper understanding of professional texts – however, there are many terms used non-systematically in the Slovak academic literature. Our article deals with problems whentranslating key public administration terms – governance, government, public admnistration and administration. We suggest that the meta-term today is governance, rather difficult to translate properly into the Slovak language – and we ask all the authors to use its possible translations only if this meta-level is discussed. The authors also document the second dimension of translation problems – many existing texts in English do not use core terms properly – one such example is the publicationEuropean Principles for Public Administration – in reality the text deals only with administrative law principles. To prevent problems with translating of terms and different sources we suggest that the “contextual” approach shall be used – first the authors of translations shoud read the text carefully for its contents and only afterwards decide how to translate its core terms.
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Vyjadřování interpersonální funkce v českých a anglických odborných textech. Kontrastivní studie.

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Sudková M.
Časopis pro moderní filologii (Journal for Modern Philology)
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2012
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vol. 94
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issue 1
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The paper compares the means of expressing interpersonal function in Czech and English academic texts dealing with linguistics. These expressions are found at various language levels and the classification takes into account both the formal and the functional point of view. Concerning the various approaches to metadiscourse, we follow the work of Ken Hyland. For the purpose of our analysis we gathered 24 academic articles, 12 per each language. As a first step, a detailed analysis of four academic texts was performed to obtain a range of metadiscourse expressions for the following corpus analysis. The aim of the corpus analysis was to find out to what extent the selected expressions were represented in a larger set of data. Despite the different language types, Czech and English use similar means to express interpersonal features of metadiscourse. The greatest difference was found in the category of hedges, relational markers and self-mentions; other categories displayed relatively similar frequencies.
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K PROBLEMATIKE ANGLIČTINY AKO LINGUA FRANCA (ELF)

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Krajňáková D.
Motus in verbo: časopis mladej vedeckej generácie
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2015
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vol. 4
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issue 1
16 – 25
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English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is a sociolinguistic phenomenon of the 21st century. ELF enters the intercultural communication on a daily basis and is an indisputable part of our sociolinguistic reality. The ultimate aim of this article is to provide a complex theoretical basis for further empirical studies in any of the linguistic fields connected to ELF. In doing so, it gives a diachronic overview of the development of ELF starting with the origins of its name, through the current situation up to its future prognosis. Moreover, the presented article is predominately focused on the description of the following areas: the conceptualisation of ELF; the phonological, lexico-grammatical and pragmatic features of ELF; its possible application into the field of language teaching; the insights into the area of translation and interpreting; and its close relation with corpus linguistics. Last but not least, this paper demonstrates the significance of the study of ELF for the future linguistic development.
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RÓŻNICE W POLSKIM, CZESKIM I ANGIELSKIM NAZEWNICTWIE WYBRANYCH GATUNKÓW SSAKÓW

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Szałaśny P.
Motus in verbo: časopis mladej vedeckej generácie
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2013
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vol. 2
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issue 1
83 – 88
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Presented examples clearly show that the linguistic image of the world is of great importance when it comes to animal names. Of the many fundamental differences between the analysed languages, we come to the conclusion that the influence on the name often has a relationship between the users of that language to the animal (as it was with the name of the Tibetan bears or the general bears that people were afraid of and thus formed a taboo); Very often the naming also affects the place of the animal (as can be seen with the name of the hippopotamus); It can also be forgotten about the appearance of the animal itself (an example is a small panda or a large pike). The processing of Polish-Czech-English names can undoubtedly be an interesting basis for further research on this issue.
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K otázkám etnologické terminologie a metodiky tvorby dvojjazyčného etnologického slovníku

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Románková E.
Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
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2012
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vol. 22
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issue 4
264 – 274
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The development of different scientific fields has brought about the formation of specialized vocabularies or terminologies whose aim is to standardise the designations of things, activities and processes in the individual branches. Today, many researchers study literature in foreign languages or publish their work abroad; almost every academic journal contains summaries in English. Ethnology is a very specific field, as it covers all areas of human life and its terminology is highly culture dependent. When translating ethnological texts into English, we encounter many problems. The expressions for elements of traditional material, spiritual and social culture in different countries vary in the same way as their cultural and social background does. No specialized Czech-English dictionary of ethnology has been published so far. The National Institute of Folk Culture is planning to publish such handbook in the form of an online database which will include a wide range of linguistic, semantic and encyclopaedic data. An examination of the identified needs and available resources followed with a presentation of the working methods as well as the methodology formulation including the dictionary structure, selection of headwords and analysis of problematic issues in translation, are summarised in this study and should lay the groundwork of the dictionary project.
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Speech-act adverbs in English and Polish: a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural comparison

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Rozumko R.
Białostockie Archiwum Językowe
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2012
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issue 12
183-196
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Speech-act adverbs constitute one of the categories of epistemic expressions. There is considerabl terminological confusion regarding epistemic adverbs, speech-act adverbs included. The present study uses the classification proposed by Simon-Vandenbergen and Aijmer (2007), who define speech-act adverbs as those which refer to speech acts which could potentially be used to support the speaker’s opinion or raise voices against his/her point of view, e.g. admittedly, arguably, indisputably, unarguably, unquestionably, undeniably. The aim of this study is to identify Polish equivalents of such adverbs, and analyze the cross-cultural significance of the differences between the ranges and uses of speech-act adverbs in the two languages.
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THE PORTION OF EXPLICIT EXPRESSIVE MEANS OF THE CATEGORY OF DETERMINATION IN CHOSEN STYLES OF THE SLOVAK, RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES (Zastupenie explicitnych vyrazovych prostriedkov kategorie determinacie vo vybranych styloch slovenskeho, ruskeho

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Lackova M.
Slavica Slovaca
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2009
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vol. 44
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issue 2
148-152
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The paper deals with the grammatical category of determination. The category of determination represents one of the most complex noun categories in the world languages. The research is focused on explicit expressive means of the category in the Slovak, Russian and English languages. The frequencies of the means in individual styles are elaborated. Possessive and demonstrative pronouns and definite/indefinite article belong to the most frequent explicit means. On the other hand, indefinite pronouns represent the least covered type of the analysed lexical units. Out of the three languages, the English language proves the highest portion of the means. At the same time, it is possible to observe portion differences of explicit expressive means within one language; this fact is reflected in their distinct frequencies in individual styles.
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OSOBITOSTI SUBSTANTÍV ANGLICKÉHO PÔVODU V SÚČASNOM RUSKOM A SLOVENSKOM SLANGU

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Lacková M.
Slavica Slovaca
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2012
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vol. 47
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issue 1
30 – 35
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The paper deals with lexical units of English origin which have penetrated into the contemporary Slovak and Russian languages. The analysis of the gathered material shows that the usage in the field of loan words adaptation into Slavic languages is not homogenous; in other words, not all the studied Anglicisms in the given period have undergone an analogically adaptation process. We cannot provide strict rules of Anglicisms functioning on system level; on the basis of material corpus it is possible to highlight only certain tendencies of integration adaptation processes. Morphological features of these Anglicisms in the studied Slavic languages are the combination of Slavic and English morphological features of nouns. At the same time, substantives borrowed from English acquire grammatical categories which are typical of the corresponding word class in the Slavic languages.
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