Language of The Beatles in their Early and Later Period

• Thesis title in Czech: Jazyk The Beatles v rané a pozdní fázi tvorby
• Thesis title in English: Language of The Beatles in their Early and Later Period
• Key words: frekvence|písňové texty|korpus|korpusová lingvistika|stylistika
• English key words: frequency|song lyrics|corpus|corpus linguistics|stylistics
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2017/2018
• Thesis type: Bachelor's thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Department of the English Language and ELT Methodology (21-UAJD)
• Supervisor: PhDr. Gabriela Brůhová, Ph.D.
• Author: hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept.
• Date of registration: 26.09.2018
• Date of assignment: 26.09.2018
• Administrator's approval: not processed yet
• Confirmed by Study dept. on: 27.09.2018
• Date and time of defence: 17.06.2019 09:00
• Date of electronic submission: 24.05.2019
• Date of proceeded defence: 17.06.2019
• Submitted/finalized: committed by student and finalized
• Opponents: Mgr. Kateřina Vašků, Ph.D.

Guidelines

Bakalářská práce bude zkoumat jazyk skupiny Beatles a jeho charakteristické rysy v raném (1958-1964) a pozdním období tvorby (1965-1970). Výchozím bodem bude frekvenční seznam slov získaný pomocí konkordančního programu AntConc. Autorka se na základě vybraných písní z raného a pozdního období tvorby zaměří jednak na rovinu gramatickou, např. užívání zájmen a jejich reference (Inglis 2000: 89), užívání časů, vedlejších vět a jednak na rovinu lexikální, tj. variabilitu používaných slov, typické kolokace, „clusters“, n-gramy. Práce si klade za cíl srovnat jazyk Beatles ve dvou obdobích tvorby a ukázat tak, zda a jak se rysy jejich jazyka změnily.
Práce bude vypracována v anglickém jazyce.

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