In my diploma thesis I analyze the key issues connected with the difficulties of communication between Spaniards and native inhabitants after the arrival to the American continent in 1492. Concretely, I focus on the first period of contact with the indigenous population. In the first part of the thesis I describe the historical and political situation in the area. Then I characterize the language policy of the Spanish court and also the linguistic situation in Latin America after the arrival of Spaniards. Next part of the thesis is dedicated to dominant Indian languages, which were used for the communication of colonizers and indigenous people and had the most significant influence on the Spanish language. There is also characteristic of the role of interpreters and importance of signs for communication during the conquest of America. The third chapter is dedicated firstly to the theoretical definition of the basic terms relevant for the topic. I describe the ways of enriching the vocabulary of languages and I explain the way how the new vocabulary was transmitted during communication between the Spaniards and the Indians. I also mention the categories of vocabulary which were most influenced by the indigenous languages with examples of loanwords from native languages in Spanish. In final part I...

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La presente tesis doctoral ofrece un estudio de los discursos que dan cuenta de las primeras expediciones al Pacífico novohispano, organizadas primero por Hernán Cortés (1522-1540) y luego por el virrey Antonio de Mendoza (1540-1543). El trabajo no solo se centra en el estudio del marco histórico y geográfico de dichos discursos, sino que se detiene especialmente en su análisis dentro de los códigos culturales y retóricos del contexto colonial en el que fueron compuestos. Se llevan a cabo, en este sentido, dos tareas: por un lado, se recopilan y organizan de manera sistemática en un corpus todos los textos vinculados al primer ciclo de exploraciones por el Mar del Sur, labor que no se había realizado hasta la fecha; y, por otro lado, se estudian los textos que integran el citado corpus desde una perspectiva textual y discursiva, poniendo especial atención en el género historiográfico de la relación. El objetivo principal al abordar este corpus es indagar en cómo se representan, en los discursos referidos a las exploraciones por el Pacífico novohispano, los territorios explorados y la otredad indígena.

The purpose of this study is to determine how stand-up comedians outside the U.S. have succeeded to adapt the art of stand-up comedy to their own regional contexts and to define the extent of the influence of American comedians on comedians from other countries, discussing the concept of Americanisation and globalised media. Two stand-up comedy presentations, one by American comedian Bill Hicks, Revelations; and one by Swedish comedian Magnus Betnér, Inget är heligt, were analysed using comparative content analysis in order to determine similarities and differences in the subjects addressed during the presentations along with similarities and differences in the style of performance. In-depth interviews were conducted as part of this research with professional comedians from Costa Rica: actor and stand-up comedian Hernán Jiménez, and members of the comedy group “La Media Docena” Édgar Murillo and Erik Hernández.

The thesis deals with the issue of the representation of the New World conquest in literature most accessible to the Czech reader, i.e. not only literature of Czech origin but also translations. The thesis contains representation of different kinds of literature and a narratological analysis of work with the selected topic. The work will point out the plurality and diversity of approaches to the topic and the individual authors who interpret the historical event through their texts. Then, with the help of comparing the individual publications, it will identify the author's possibilities to shape the reader's awareness and knowledge of the conquest but also how these can be manipulated. Diachronic comparisons will also point to changes in reception over time.

La siguiente investigación se enmarca en el análisis de tres relatos testimoniales que textualizan una parte de la dictadura militar chilena implantada el 11 de septiembre de 1973. El período abordado comprende los años 1974 hasta 1977, fechas que indican sus publicaciones fuera de Chile. Los textos, que componen el corpus de análisis son: Tejas verdes. Diario de un campo de concentración en Chile, de Hernán Valdés; Relato en el frente chileno, de Michel Bonnefoy y Cérco de puás, de Aníbal Quijada.