Czech studies(85)

Čeština bez příkras

This publication strives to present an accessible description of colloquial Czech, that is, the mother tongue of almost every Czech from ...

Čeština nerodilých mluvčích s mateřským jazykem neslovanským

This work characterized the "interlanguage” of students learning Czech as a foreign language. The description is based on a long-term res...

Čeština v pohledu synchronním a diachronním

The year 2011 was marked by the 100th anniversary since the foundation of the Office of the Czech Dictionary, an institution which became...

Ďáblové, ženy a národ

This selection of essays and treatises by Robert B. Pynsent, one of the most renowned foreign experts on Czech studies (since 1991, a pro...

Výbor z úvah o české literatuře

Dialogické interpretace

Two scholars, a linguist and a literary scientist, focus on the common understanding of dialogicality as the basis of the construction of...

Ear

A paranoid thriller of life under surveillance in Communist Czechoslovakia. A deputy minister in the Communist Party, Ludvík enjoys all t...

Everyday Spooks

With famous Everyday Spooks (orig. publ. 1961), Prague-born Karel Michal presents an unforgettable assortment of fantastic creatures that...

Frazeologie a idiomatika česká a obecná. Czech and General Phraseology.

This book provides the first self-contained and systematic overview of the whole field of phraseology and idiomatics within a wider lingu...

Frekvenční slovník mluvené češtiny

This Frequency Dictionary of Spoken Czech is the very first dictionary of its kind, presenting authentic spoken Czech which is contrasted...

God's Rainbow

This is a book about collective guilt, individual fate, and repentance, a tale that explores how we can come to be responsible for crimes...

Gramatické rozbory češtiny

This handbook is primarily intended for students of the first year of the bachelor program of Czech studies and contains explanations of ...

Heterocosmica

Translated from the English by Lubomír Doležel Professor Lubomír Doležel is a Czech scientist living in Canada and specialising in Theory...

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