Issue 1 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96284 2026-04-12T11:38:34Z 2026-04-12T11:38:34Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97148 2024-08-09T12:47:08Z 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

CA as a methodology in investigating the language of decision-making; ; ; The present article draws on authentic business meetings data collected during a longitudinal study undertaken in a British Chamber of Commerce and Industry (2005–2006) and uses these to set out an applied methodology to the analysis of decision-making in meetings. Specifically, it makes a case promoting the suitability of Conversation Analysis (CA) in examining the role of talk in decision-making. Due to the interdisciplinary character of the research enquiry, an analysis of this kind poses a number of challenges that need to be subsumed into the design of the methodology adopted. These typically include the complexity of multi-party interactions, the volume of data, and the requirement for the linguistic findings to be interpreted in the wider context of the business organisation. CA provides a flexible and robust methodology through which to address these challenges. In order to illustrate some of its potential, the article will demonstrate how CA’s principle orientations towards turn-taking, turn design, and the sequential character of spoken interaction were applied to business meetings data, and how these assisted in understanding the talk in enacting the process of decision-making in meetings. On a more general level, the article argues that while the robust nature of CA has historically been established in the analysis of ordinary conversation, it is through its more recent and often somewhat creative applications that it is also becoming increasingly employed in the analysis of workplace and institutional discourse.; Článek vychází z analýzy dat shromážděných v rámci longitudinální studie realizované v jedné z hospodářských komor ve Velké Británii (2005–2006). Na jejím základě předkládá metodiku konverzační analýzy použité pro rozbor procesu rozhodování během vnitropodnikových jednání; objasňuje vhodnost využití této metodiky pro popis a interpretaci dynamiky konverzace pracovních týmů a k identifikaci klíčových momentů pracovních jednání. Podrobněji příspěvek rozebírá, jakým způsobem mohou základní principy konverzační analýzy, tzn. rozbor sekvenčního uspořádání jednotlivých příspěvků a vymezení konverzačních strategií, přispět k pochopení role diskurzu při utváření rozhodovacího procesu. V obecnější rovině je cílem navržené aplikované metodiky poskytnout konkrétní příklad využití analýzy konverzace pro řešení otázky, která je svou povahou interdisciplinární a která nachází stále širší zastoupení právě ve studiích profesního a institucionálního diskurzu.

2014-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97125 2024-08-09T12:47:08Z 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nahrávání v terénním lingvistickém výzkumu: jak získat kvalitní záznam řeči?; Field recording in linguistic research: how to achieve high-quality audio recordings?; ; ; The article deals with recording techniques in linguistic field research. It aims at providing linguists with technical and practical knowledge on how to make a high quality speech recording in a non-laboratory setting. As the first step in field recording is to master the manipulation with the audio device, the paper starts with the presentation and the explanation of basic concepts related to digital audio signal processing. It goes on with the description of the basic technical equipment for speech recording as well as some of the supplementary components. This should help the readers handle the instruments in practice. A separate section is devoted to the classification and the description of external microphones which can be used as an effective extension of compact recording devices. Apart from technical aspects of field recording, practical issues such as the choice of an appropriate place and the organization of the recording session are also discussed. Attention is paid to the ways how to manage and store the recordings too, including proper treatment of the metadata. Finally, some suggestions on how to enhance the spontaneity of the respondents’ speech behaviour are offered. The article draws primarily on the authors’ own experience with field recording and it presupposes no previous knowledge of technical terms and audio processing techniques.

2014-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96928 2024-08-09T12:47:08Z 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

K tabuizaci mateřštiny ve výuce anglického jazyka: reflexe přednášky Penny Urové v Praze v listopadu 2013; Some thoughts on the tabooing of L1 in the EFL classroom.; ; ; This article traces the development of views on the use of L1 in teaching EFL. It attempts to discover why many teachers feel the guilt they claim to feel when they use L1 in the EFL classroom. Two possible causes are identified — the Reform Movement and, in the local context, the specific nature of the ELT situation and language market in the post-1989 period in Czechoslovakia. The article advocates the use of L1 provided that use is systematic and follows clear guidelines. In addition, it calls for debate on what these guidelines should be.

2014-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96741 2024-08-09T12:47:08Z 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Koreference a typy reference v češtině; Coreference and types of reference in Czech; ; ; The article deals with coreference relations in Czech and their classification based on the classification of reference types. First, we define the notion of coreference, putting stress on the distinction between coreference and endophora. Then the scheme of reference and coreference used in the annotation of the coreferential relations in the Prague Dependency Treebank (PDT) is presented, where two types of coreferential relations are applied: the type SPEC and the type GEN. Analyzing several examples, we argue that this scheme is not capable of describing more complicated reference relations, which results especially from the too broad definition of the type GEN. Hence we suggest an alternative classification of the types of reference, employing two independent criteria: the criterion of genericity and the criterion of specificity, so that four types of reference are established: specific individual, non-specific individual, specific generic and non-specific generic. We deal with each of these four types in detail, and finally, we show how this classification can be used when capturing coreference relations in text.

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