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This paper contributes to the study of Czech-accented English by examining multiple pronunciation features, both segmental and prosodic, typically associated with or previously studied in Czech English. We analyzed ten f...

This paper presents Prak, a forced alignment tool developed for Czech, with a focus on transparent modular design and phonetic accuracy. In addition to a rule-based pronunciation module and exception handling, Prak intro...

This study investigates temporal development of phonetic drift (i.e., when L1 pronunciation is affected by acquiring an L2 language) in the L1 speech of four Czech university students (two female and two male) who went t...

The paper discusses the role of Czech (Czechoslovakian) intellectuals in the life of Roman Dyboski (1885–1945), professor of English philology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Dyboski was one of just a few Po...

The present study explores sources which cast light on the usage of Latin in everyday communication within communities of religious orders, observing the particular choice of Latin rather than vernacular languages for ce...

With growing emancipation of the Deaf, sign language has been making its way into conference rooms, entering in contact not only with foreign sign languages, but also with spoken ones. Logically, this entails the need fo...

The paper outlines and discusses the beginnings, character and development of Czech criticism of translations of English literature in the nineteenth century. It does so in the wider context of debates concerning the rol...

This study deals with problematic features of Czech-Hungarian translation, focusing primarily on issues regarding translations of contemporary Hungarian literature, not only from the aesthetic point of view but from a li...

This article explores selected aspects of narrative expression of identification with social entities in Holocaust survivors’ oral history testimonies, including the related conflicts of identities. In its empirical di...

This study aims to investigate offline processing of subject anaphora in Dutch. An important parameter in this study is the difference between pro drop and non-pro drop languages. An experiment has been run to investigat...

In the introduction of this study the author presents the most important personalities of the history the Czech Trinitarian Theology, who had written before Josef Pospišil started. The author explains the reasons of thi...

The paper discusses the role of directionality in translations from Czech to German language. Its main purpose is to detect differences in the translation process between native and non-native translations, with a specia...

This paper compares the original version of the chapter “Tři faze překladatelovy prace” from Czech Theorist Jiři Levy’s book Umění překladu, with its German translation. The original was published 1963 in Cze...

Alexandr Stich as well as Vladimír Šmilauer dealt with Czech military terminology, although this was not their main area of research. Both of them linguistically analyzed the work of others, namely Stich of Friedberg-M...

In present article we tried to capture the scientific and personality traits of three Czech and Czechoslovakian linguists who co-created our linguobohemistics in an unforgettable way. We remember Vladimír Šmilauer as a...

Based on previous studies discussing the thematization of German dialects in lessons of German as a foreign language within and outside the German speaking countries, the article outlines a didactic concept for building ...

The topic of this paper is the role of German language history in the context of university-based German studies abroad (so called “Auslandsgermanistik”) with focus on German studies in the Czech Republic and selecte...

The article presents partial results of a study on market-oriented multilingualism and its strategic management in the workplace of a multinational company in the Czech Republic. The study incorporates the language manag...

In this article, we intend to follow the spread and circulation of the fake news loan in French, Polish and Czech. We will analyze in particular the way in which this lexical unit is assimilated by these three languages,...

This text is based on a section from the author’s dissertation titled Japan and Modern Architecture, 1945–1970. Discourse in the mid-20th-century Europe, examining the ideas about Japanese architecture in Western, ma...

The article aims to present the contemporary reception of the ideas of the Czech translation scholar Jiři Levy in Spain and Latin America. His ideas, formulated in the 1950s, remain perfectly valid till the present day;...

In 1996, a selection of privileges and charters issued for the town of Pelhřimov by Czech rulers and local nobility in the years 1289–1802 was published. The impetus for the publication was the 400th anniversary of Pe...

The paper examines the history, current state, and prospects of the translation of Ukrainian prose into Serbian. Although the number of Ukrainian prose works translated into Serbian remains relatively small, the traditio...