La problématique de la définition du mot abréviation - différents procédés de création de mots nouveaux par l'abréviation

Radka Fridrichová

Romanica Olomucensia 2011, 23(2):101-112 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2011.015  

A wide variety of abbreviations are now present in our reading material and everyday speech. The trend has been incorporated into contemporary French. Time and space is vital. This process takes several different forms which can result in different meanings. The paper covers four different types of abbreviations in this article: initials, acronym, general abbreviations, and truncation.

Preposición y conjunción como clases de palabras en español

José Manuel González Calvo

Romanica Olomucensia 2011, 23(2):113-123 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2011.016  

The author of this article defends the technical need to speak Spanish syntax of two kinds of linking words, by their difference in function: the subordinating and coordinante. The fall in subordinating conjunctions and prepositions (the traditional subordination). The term used to name coordinante traditional coordinating conjunctions.

Il verbo italiano di modo finito nella struttura informativa dell'enunciato a confronto con il verbo inglese

Eva Klímová

Romanica Olomucensia 2011, 23(2):125-135 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2011.017  

The article deals with the Italian and the English finite verb form from the Functional Sentence Perspective (FSP) point of view. The morphological and syntactical differences between both languages present Italian and English as two typologically different languages. These differences have their reflection on the FSP level. From this point of view the Italian and the English finite verb forms are observed as to their position in the sentence and within the communicative units.

Aplicación de las Leyes de Zipf en los textos españoles

Daniel Petrík

Romanica Olomucensia 2011, 23(2):137-146 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2011.018  

Zipf's Laws are rules that describe the distribution of words in the text by their frequency, the number of different meanings and other features. Its author, Harvard professor George Kingsley Zipf (1902-1950), while studying natural languages mentioned the so-called Principle of least effort, which means that the language is focused on the economy and clarity. The principle has an impact on how the speaker unconsciously choose the terms by which he expresses his ideas (for example, the mostly used words are usually the shortest and with multiple meanings, etc.). Zipf's Laws are valid in any natural language and even in other natural systems; however,...

La mort a le visage d'une femme. À propos des Histoires singulières de Jean Muno

Renata Bizek-Tatara

Romanica Olomucensia 2011, 23(2):147-154 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2011.019  

In his collection of phantasy short stories Les histoires singulières, Muno breaches the convention of the genre that concerns the presentation of death and phantoms. Frightening and fascinating at the same time, death always assumes the figure of a woman who is either average or seducing. Her coming is announced by female messengers. Death in Muno is not a tragic event: it is a promise of a better life and a salvation from the worries of schematic and overwhelming everyday reality.

Libertad, amor y sexualidad en la obra de Jesús Alviz

František Dratva

Romanica Olomucensia 2011, 23(2):155-163 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2011.020  

The article relates the most important biographic data of the Extremaduran writer Jesús Alviz, analyzing the importance and approach of themes like love, sexuality and liberty on extracts of his works. The analysis is based on the short novel Trébedes and the plays ¡Qué más da! and Wallada.

Ciranda de pedra, Bildungsroman de Lygia Fagundes Telles

Michaela Pavlovská

Romanica Olomucensia 2011, 23(2):165-172 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2011.021  

This article focuses on analysis of the main character Virgínia of the novel The Marble Dance (Ciranda de pedra, 1954) written by Brazilian author Lygia Fagundes Telles (1923) who uses the form of Bildungsroman to show the protagonist's search for her identity. The novel constitutes an alternative to the traditional male novels of formation which contributes to the reformulation of this genre. This way Fagundes Telles introduces a new dynamic heroin who has to gain her "Bildung" on her own and who represents a modern attitude of a female individual toward the world.

La présence et le fonctionnement des personnages mythiques dans l'Emploi du temps de Michel Butor

Alicja Ślusarska

Romanica Olomucensia 2011, 23(2):173-178 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2011.022  

The aim of this article is to analyse the importance of the role of mythical figures in the creation of fictional characters on the example of L'Emploi du temps by Michel Butor. Searching mythical references in his "new novel", the article brings out the resemblances of Butor's heroes with those of the Greek myths as well as differences between them. The myth, as universal narrative that continues leaving its traces in modern French literature, is the subject of the reflection.

A personagem feminina no conto «Amor» de Clarice Lispector como uma possível chave para a interpretação compendiada de toda a sua obra

Vlastimil Váně

Romanica Olomucensia 2011, 23(2):179-186 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2011.023  

Analyzing the short story "Love" included in the collection Family Ties (1960) written by Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector we start from the structural analysis proposed by Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna. Then we focus, taking into account Herbert Marcuse's interpretation of Freud, on the female protagonist of the short story who is imprisoned in the patriarchal system, representing the desperate female condition in the society. As we consider this short story to be the exemplary one for all author's literary work, the present analysis tries to offer the general synthesis of its possible reading.

Leona Černá - Blanka Kulhajová, Le Français juridique

Zuzana Raková

Romanica Olomucensia 2011, 23(2):187  

Daniel Esparza, Identidad nacional y el otro. La República Checa frente a la Unión Europea

Jiří Chalupa

Romanica Olomucensia 2011, 23(2):188-190  

José Manuel González Calvo, Escollos de sintaxis española

Pilar Montero Curiel

Romanica Olomucensia 2011, 23(2):190-193  

Ivan Očenáš, Fónická a grafická sústava spisovnej slovenčiny. Vývin a korešpondencia ich prvkov

Katarína Chovancová

Romanica Olomucensia 2011, 23(2):194-198  

Inés Olza Moreno, Corporalidad y lenguaje. La fraseología somática metalingüística del español

Enrique Gutiérrez Rubio

Romanica Olomucensia 2011, 23(2):198-199  

Zuzana Raková, Francophonie de la population tchèque 1848-2008

Jan Holeš

Romanica Olomucensia 2011, 23(2):200