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The influence of pragmatic factors on the choice of means of expression in oral communication
Project IdGA405/98/0639
Main solverdoc. PhDr. Eva Jandová, Ph.D.
Period1/1998 - 12/2000
ProviderStandardní projekt GA ČR
Statefinished
AnotationThe project is based on the methodology of communicative and pragmatic linguistics and conservation analysis. It follows up with the grant project ČR No. 405/95/0009, entitled ' Spoken Czech in Bohemia and Moravia ' which will be completed in the year 1997;n the basis of an analysis of authentic spoken texts lasting 4 000 minutes, it compares the differences within the contemporary language situation on the territory of Bohemia and Moravia, determines their causes and defines further developments. Theobjectives of the project are : to make full use of the corpus of spoken texts that is being created ; to complement it by adding texts of hitherto not mapped communicative situations ; and to inform about the use of variants of the Czech language in individual types of communicative situations, which should be based on an all-round analysis, oriented especially towards language means. Communicative situations will be selected on the basic of the opposition officials / unofficialness and public / no