U.S. - Czech Partnership in Times of Upheavals

2:00 PM

Lecture and discussion with H.E. Bijan Sabet, U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic

Testing a Sociolinguistic Model for its Predictive Power: An Empirical Approach to Schneider’s Dynamic Model

12:00 PM

Schneider’s (2003, 2007) Dynamic Model (DM) offers a sociolinguistic approach to World Englishes according to which varieties evolve through five stages (I-V) that correlate with linguistic features. It can thus be tested using empirical data. I present acceptability judgments from 192 speakers of six English varieties (stages III-V) that prove the DM’s predictive power.

Multilevel-Grounded Semantics: Creative Negotiation of Meaning in Music, Poetry, and Visual Cognition

12:00 PM

Multilevel-grounded semantics (Antović, 2016; 2021; 2022) is the author's theoretical contribution to the explanation of the role of context in negotiating meaning, across symbolical forms and cognitive modalities. Interlinking the notions of "conceptual blending" from cognitive linguistics and "ground" from the philosophy of language, Antović proposes a hierarchical, recursive system which generates semiosis along a six-tier sequence of constraints (perceptual, cross-modal, affective, conceptual, culturally rich, and personal).

Paul Von Blum: The United States Supreme Court: A Retreat into Darkness

2:00 PM

The rise of Donald Trump has created an existential threat to American democracy. In the past few years, the United States Supreme Court, with three extremely conservative justices appointed by Trump, has issued a series of rulings that have had little to do with traditional legal precedent and much more to do with enacting a right-wing ideological agenda.

Doctoral State Examination and Defence of Dissertation thesis - Mgr. Worthington

10:00 AM

Invitation to the public meeting of the committee for the defence of dissertation thesis held on Thursday, September 19, 2024, from 10:00 a.m.

Doctoral State Examination and Defence of Dissertation thesis - Mgr. Iveta Volfová

10:00 AM

Invitation to the public meeting of the committee for the defence of dissertation thesis held on Tuesday 17 September, 2024, at 10:00 (CET – Prague).

Bachelor Thesis Defense Schedule - June 2024

9:00 AM

The Avant-Postman: Experiment in Anglophone & Francophone Fiction in the Wake of James Joyce

12:00 PM

"The Avant-Postman explores a broad range of innovative postwar writing from France, Britain, and the United States. Taking James Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as a joint starting point, I draw genealogical lines from there through the work of more than 50 writers up to very recent years.