Bakalauro darbo tema – ,,Konceptualiosios vilties ir nevilties metaforos lietuvių kalbos pasaulėvaizdyje“. Iš ,,Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos tekstyno“ buvo išrinkti ir suklasifikuoti 589 pavyzdžiai, juos analizuojant siekta atskleisti, kaip lietuvių kalbos pasaulėvaizdyje suvokiamos viltis ir neviltis, su kokiais konkrečiais daiktais ar reiškiniais šie abstraktūs fenomenai siejami, kaip viltis ir neviltis charakterizuojamos. Šiame darbe konceptualiųjų vilties ir nevilties metaforų aprašymo tvarką nulėmė išrinktų pavyzdžių skaičius. / The bachelor work topic – ,,Conceptual metaphors of hope and despair in Lithuanian worldview”. 589 examples were selected and classified from modern Lithuanian lexical dictionary. Analyzing them it was tried to disclose the meanings of hope and despair in Lithuanian language, with what concrete things and phenomena they are associated and characterized. In this work the description order of conceptual hope and despair metaphors was determined by member of selected examples.

Diploma thesis, which is based on Anna Wierzbicka's natural semantic metalanguage theory, discusses certain specific features of Czech language worldview and compares them with specific features of English language worldview. This intercultural comparison is made possible by the cultural neutrality of the natural semantic metalanguage which serves as a language in which explications of analyzed words are formulated and compared to their English counterparts. Analyses of Czech keywords are based mainly on the use of dictionaries (explanatory and etymological dictionaries and dictionaries of phrases and idioms) and Czech corpora. The analysis aims to show differences between Czech and English cultural norms and values as reflected in different semantic structures of analyzed concepts, which presumably indicate deeper differences in perceiving and interpreting reality in both languages.