This diploma thesis deals with names of quarters and city parts as well as with street names in the city of České Budějovice and their changes in the historical development. Attention is payed to the historical centre of the city as well as to the newer city parts and suburban localities which have been built in the last years. The monitored urbanonyms are selected from the linguistic and factual perspective. Furthermore, the changes of honorific names in various historical periods are observed too. The paper also comprises an alphabetical register of streets. The main focus of the analysis is to enrich onomastics of the city of České Budějovice.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:16:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5000.pdf: 2828821 bytes, checksum: 085b98bac2f728cd163a1abb8d9d9385 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-02-18 / Information retrieval systems for information retrieval can occur through the search by author name, title of the work, by text words and through the theme or subject of a work. For accuracy in information search by subject, it becomes essential to use structured languages, called indexing languages, which are instruments with a view to enabling represent the contents of the collection. Thus, the theme of our research is to identify construction parameters of an instrument subject representation for information retrieval by subject in units of scientific and technical information (USTI). In this study, the units of scientific and technical information correspond to the libraries of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of São Paulo. Our research problem is characterized by the absence of social cognitive parameters for the construction of an instrument of representation of thematic information of technical and scientific areas. Identify proposed construction parameters of an instrument of thematic representation of information on the technical and scientific literature in the area of Knowledge Representation and Organization in the context of social cognitive librarian and user and the prospect of the units of scientific and technical information feds. Our overall objective was to present parameters for the construction of social cognitive instrument thematic representation of information techno-scientific areas. The specific objectives were: 1. identify the interdisciplinary Science, Technology and Society, Information Science, with emphasis on the Organization of Knowledge and Cognitive Science, to establish a collaborative dialogue in building a tool for thematic representation of information 2. present on the documentary languages, viewed as representation language for subject areas of technical and scientific information retrieval systems; 3. identify methods of construction of alphabetical indexing languages, given the technical and scientific literature in the area of Knowledge Representation and Organization in Information Science, 4. describe the context of social cognitive librarian and user units of scientific and technical information feds 5. the views of librarians and users of information units on federal technical-scientific parameters in the collaborative construction of an instrument subject representation in Science, Technology and Education, from the application of verbal protocol viewed as a qualitative methodology with sociocognitive approach. Our research is justified by the need for an indexing language for representation and retrieval of information in units of scientific and technical information to enable the correct representation of information by librarians in indexing activity and access to information for users seeking quality and specificity in recovery the information. As methodology we conducted bibliographic research on thematic Science, Technology, Society, Information Science, Cognitive Science, Knowledge Organization, Documentary Languages, Intelligence Units, Thesaurus, Federal Institute of Education. Subsequently, we apply the Protocol Verbal Group (PVG), knowing opinions of librarians and users on indicators for the construction of the instrument. The results were analyzed from grants acquired by literature accompanied by statements of participants and enabled PVG Eleven parameters indicate the collaborative construction of an instrument subject representation: 1. characterization of the user profile (target) that will make use of language learners and teachers of upper-level courses and medium 2. terms must serve the needs of representation and retrieval of information (guarantees and literary usage) 3. terms must originate in natural language and specialty (fair usage and literary) 4. terms should represent the vocabulary usage of the organization (organizational guarantee) 5. language must have both generic and specific terms; 6. language should promote control of synonyms; 7. language must identify the homonymous accordance with the use of qualifiers 8. establishment of logical-semantic relationships between terms of orders hierarchical, associative and equivalency; 9. inclusion of terms of scope notes when needed; 10. assignment of terms must be contemplating the balance between comprehensiveness and specificity achieved by the information retrieval system; 11. identification / building information retrieval system (catalog) that includes also factors such as being available online, offering reservation services online and renewal; allow viewing of information such as: cover, table of contents, introduction and full text materials contained in the collection of USTI; possess and to enable a feature suggestion terms, the timing of the search, both to fix the search expression as for the storage of subjects / search terms. This feature is important in terms of collection, aimed at updating process of language also from the user's perspective; provide and ensure accessibility of the language so that the librarian can realize the representation of information with it and from it, and allow available the accessibility of the language so that the user can perform a search by subject, for recovering useful information with it and from it. We believe that the diversity of the public pointed verbal protocols with respect to factors such as age, level of education (knowledge) and different areas of expertise, which makes us think and recommend to the IFSP USTI the construction and use of an indexing language with vocabulary arising from natural language and specialty (as in a thesaurus) but with the logical structure semantics between terms / headers from a list of subject headings, covering scope also notes that become necessary. / A recuperação da informação em sistemas de recuperação da informação pode dar-se através da busca por nome do autor, por título da obra, por palavras do texto e através do tema ou assunto de uma obra. Para a precisão na busca da informação por assunto, torna-se fundamental o uso de linguagens estruturadas, denominadas linguagens documentárias, que são instrumentos com vistas a permitir representar os conteúdos do acervo de uma unidade de informação. Dessa forma, o tema de nossa pesquisa é a identificação de parâmetros de construção de um instrumento de representação temática para recuperação de informação por assunto em unidades de informação técnico-científicas (UITC). Nesta pesquisa, as unidades de informação técnico-científicas correspondem às bibliotecas do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo. Nosso problema de pesquisa caracteriza-se pela ausência de parâmetros sociocognitivos para a construção de instrumento de representação temática da informação de áreas técnico-científicas. Propusemos identificar parâmetros de construção de um instrumento de representação temática da informação, diante das literaturas técnica e científica na área de Organização e Representação do Conhecimento, no contexto sociocognitivo do bibliotecário e do usuário e pela perspectiva das unidades de informação técnico-científicas federais. Nosso objetivo geral foi apresentar parâmetros sociocognitivos para a construção de instrumento de representação temática da informação de áreas técnico-científicas. Os objetivos específicos foram: 1. identificar a interdisciplinaridade entre a Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade, Ciência da Informação, com destaque para a Organização do Conhecimento e Ciência Cognitiva, visando estabelecer um diálogo colaborativo na construção de um instrumento de representação temática da informação; 2. apresentar sobre as linguagens documentárias, vistas como linguagem de representação por assunto de áreas técnico-científicas e de sistemas de recuperação da informação; 3. identificar os métodos de construção de linguagens documentárias alfabéticas, diante das literaturas técnica e científica na área de Organização e Representação do Conhecimento em Ciência da Informação; 4. descrever o contexto sociocognitivo do bibliotecário e do usuário de unidades de informação técnico-científicas federais; 5. conhecer as opiniões de bibliotecários e usuários de unidades de informação técnico-científicas federais sobre parâmetros colaborativos na construção de um instrumento de representação temática em Ciência, Tecnologia e Educação, a partir da aplicação do protocolo verbal visto como uma metodologia qualitativa com abordagem sociocognitiva. Nossa pesquisa justificou-se pela necessidade de uma linguagem documentária para representação e recuperação da informação em unidades de informação técnico-científicas que permitam a correta representação da informação por bibliotecários na atividade de indexação e o acesso a informação por usuários que buscam especificidade e qualidade na recuperação da informação. Como metodologia realizamos pesquisa bibliográfica sobre temáticas Ciência, Tecnologia, Sociedade, Ciência da Informação, Ciência Cognitiva, Organização do Conhecimento, Linguagens Documentárias, Unidades de Informação, Tesauros, Instituto Federal de Educação. Posteriormente, aplicamos o Protocolo Verbal em Grupo (PVG), conhecendo opiniões de bibliotecários e usuários acerca dos indicadores para a construção do instrumento. Os resultados foram analisados a partir dos subsídios adquiridos pela literatura acompanhados das declarações dos participantes do PVG e possibilitaram indicar onze parâmetros colaborativos na construção de um instrumento de representação temática: 1. caracterização do perfil do usuário (público alvo) que fará uso da linguagem: discentes e docentes de cursos de nível superior e médio; 2. termos devem atender as necessidades de representação e recuperação da informação (garantias literária e de uso); 3. termos devem ter origem na linguagem natural e de especialidade (garantias de uso e literária); 4. termos devem representar o vocabulário de uso da organização (garantia organizacional); 5. a linguagem deve possuir tanto termos genéricos quanto específicos; 6. a linguagem deve promover o controle de sinônimos; 7. a linguagem deve identificar a homonímia com o uso de termos qualificadores; 8. estabelecimento de relações lógicosemânticas entre os termos de ordens hierárquica, equivalência e associativa; 9. inclusão de notas de escopo dos termos, quando necessário; 10. atribuição de termos deve ser contemplar o equilíbrio entre a exaustividade e a especificidade alcançada pelo sistema de recuperação da informação; 11. identificação/construção de sistema de recuperação da informação (catálogo) que contemple, também, fatores, tais como: estar disponíveis online; oferecer os serviços de reservas e renovação online; permitir a visualização de informações como: capa, sumário, introdução e texto completo de materiais constantes do acervo das UITCs; possuir e ativar um recurso para sugestão de termos, na momento de realização da busca, tanto para correção da expressão de busca quanto para o armazenamento dos assuntos/termos procurados. Tal recurso é importante na coleta de termos, visando o processo de atualização da linguagem a partir também da perspectiva do usuário; disponibilizar e permitir a acessibilidade da linguagem para que o bibliotecário possa realizar a representação da informação com ela e a partir dela; disponibilizar e permitir a acessibilidade da linguagem para que o usuário possa realizar a busca por assunto, para a recuperação de informações úteis, com ela e a partir dela. Consideramos que a diversidade de públicos apontada nos protocolos verbais diz respeito a fatores como idade, níveis de escolaridade (conhecimento) e áreas de especialidades distintas, o que nos faz refletir e recomendar às UITCs do IFSP a construção e uso de uma linguagem documentária com vocabulários advindos da linguagem natural e de especialidade (como ocorre em um tesauro), porém com a estrutura lógico-semântica entre os termos/cabeçalhos de uma lista de cabeçalhos de assunto, contemplando também as notas de escopo que se fizerem necessárias

THIS THESIS IS IN THE EXAMINATION PROCESS The ability to locate symbols on a visual display forms an integral part of the effective use of AAC systems. Characteristics of display design and perceptual features of symbols have been shown to influence rate and accuracy of symbol location (Thistle&Wilkinson, 2009; Wilkinson, Carlin,&Jagaroo, 2006). The current study endeavoured to compare the use of two colour-coded organisational strategies (alphabetical order and subcategorisation) for their effectiveness in symbol location and to investigate if some bottom-up features influenced the performance of the participants in these tasks. 114 learners in Grade 1 to 3 in a mainstream school were randomly divided into two groups. Both of the groups were exposed to two visual search tests in alternating order. The tests involved searching for 36 visual targets amongst 81 coloured Picture Communication Symbols on a computer screen in one of two colour-coded organizational methods, namely alphabetical order or subcategorisation. The data from the research task was collected through computer logging of all mouse selections. Findings showed that locating symbols on a computer screen with a subcategorisation strategy was significantly faster and more accurate than with an alphabetical strategy for the Grade 1 to 3 participants. The differences between the rates and accuracy of target symbol location using the two strategies decreased significantly as grade increased. It was also found that although the tests in this study placed heavy top-down processing demands on the participants, there was still evidence of bottom-up factors influencing their performance. Implications for display design in AAC clinical practice were discussed. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC) / Unrestricted

South Africa’s current performance on national and international studies is an indication that all is not well with our literacy teaching. In spite of the implementation of the National Curriculum Statement Grade R-9, illiteracy is currently a serious problem in South Africa. Current international and national documents call for direct, explicit, systematic teaching of reading and language concepts to beginning readers. The five principal components of reading instruction, namely phoneme awareness; phonics; word study and spelling; reading fluency; and text comprehension encompass language instruction at the phoneme, grapheme, syllable, word, sentence, and discourse levels. Teachers need specific and explicit linguistic knowledge to recognise and address the needs of all learners on the continuum of reading and language proficiency. Phonological awareness skills are considered as the most important indicators of early reading skills. Literature suggests a strong positive correlation between phonological awareness skills and reading skills development. Longitudinal studies show that children who don’t have phonological awareness skills have difficulties in reading. Experimental studies on phonological awareness suggest that the implementation of phonological awareness training has positive effects on the development of reading and spelling abilities. Phonological awareness is a key component in the prevention of reading failure. The information collected through the assessment of phonological awareness, enables teachers to make informed decisions about modifications of the literacy learning programme and implement reading interventions to prevent failure of reading acquisition. This early, preventative intervention reduces the possibility that learners fall behind in reading. The teaching of phonological awareness is par excellence for emergent literacy in the grade R class. Phonological awareness can be improved through the systematic, explicit instruction thereof. Therefore, teachers need to be able to implement a variety of phonological awareness activities in their classroom instruction. Teachers need content knowledge about phonological awareness, and how to implement it successfully. The purpose of this study was to determine: What a SWOT analysis reveals about grade R-teachers’: * Current in-depth knowledge of phonological awareness. * Preparedness to teach phonological awareness. * Implementation of instructional practices relevant to phonological awareness. * Perceptions of the support received from DoBE, in terms of relevant documentation, teaching and learning support material and professional development. The limitations, if any, in the teacher support documents of the DoBE, regarding the teaching of phonological awareness in grade R and to make suggestion with regard to the improvement thereof. What the perceptions of grade R teachers are about their in-depth knowledge, instructional practices and preparedness, concerning phonological awareness, after the implementation of a teacher training programme, focussing specifically on phonological awareness. The study was conducted utilizing a case study with thirteen grade R teachers from Lichtenburg, and the surrounding towns, Koster, Coligny and Itsoseng in the North West Province, Department of Basic Education, in South Africa. Data was collected in three phases, using questionnaires, interviews, observations and document analyses. In the first phase, the researcher gathered information on the knowledge and implementation of phonological awareness before the intervention (i.e., a teacher training programme). In the second phase, the teachers received training about the concept of phonological awareness and its relevance in reading acquisition. The training programme included relevant teaching activities as well as learning and teaching support material. In the third phase, the researcher trained the participants in the implementation of phonological awareness and gathered data about the implementation process. The results indicated that if teachers received explicit training about phonological awareness and are provided with relevant learning and teaching support material, they are able to implement phonological awareness activities in grade R classrooms. The results of this study have implications for teacher training. The concept of phonological awareness, its relevance in reading acquisition as well as relevant teaching activities need to be included in the training of grade R teachers. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Learning and Teaching))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.

South Africa’s current performance on national and international studies is an indication that all is not well with our literacy teaching. In spite of the implementation of the National Curriculum Statement Grade R-9, illiteracy is currently a serious problem in South Africa. Current international and national documents call for direct, explicit, systematic teaching of reading and language concepts to beginning readers. The five principal components of reading instruction, namely phoneme awareness; phonics; word study and spelling; reading fluency; and text comprehension encompass language instruction at the phoneme, grapheme, syllable, word, sentence, and discourse levels. Teachers need specific and explicit linguistic knowledge to recognise and address the needs of all learners on the continuum of reading and language proficiency. Phonological awareness skills are considered as the most important indicators of early reading skills. Literature suggests a strong positive correlation between phonological awareness skills and reading skills development. Longitudinal studies show that children who don’t have phonological awareness skills have difficulties in reading. Experimental studies on phonological awareness suggest that the implementation of phonological awareness training has positive effects on the development of reading and spelling abilities. Phonological awareness is a key component in the prevention of reading failure. The information collected through the assessment of phonological awareness, enables teachers to make informed decisions about modifications of the literacy learning programme and implement reading interventions to prevent failure of reading acquisition. This early, preventative intervention reduces the possibility that learners fall behind in reading. The teaching of phonological awareness is par excellence for emergent literacy in the grade R class. Phonological awareness can be improved through the systematic, explicit instruction thereof. Therefore, teachers need to be able to implement a variety of phonological awareness activities in their classroom instruction. Teachers need content knowledge about phonological awareness, and how to implement it successfully. The purpose of this study was to determine: What a SWOT analysis reveals about grade R-teachers’: * Current in-depth knowledge of phonological awareness. * Preparedness to teach phonological awareness. * Implementation of instructional practices relevant to phonological awareness. * Perceptions of the support received from DoBE, in terms of relevant documentation, teaching and learning support material and professional development. The limitations, if any, in the teacher support documents of the DoBE, regarding the teaching of phonological awareness in grade R and to make suggestion with regard to the improvement thereof. What the perceptions of grade R teachers are about their in-depth knowledge, instructional practices and preparedness, concerning phonological awareness, after the implementation of a teacher training programme, focussing specifically on phonological awareness. The study was conducted utilizing a case study with thirteen grade R teachers from Lichtenburg, and the surrounding towns, Koster, Coligny and Itsoseng in the North West Province, Department of Basic Education, in South Africa. Data was collected in three phases, using questionnaires, interviews, observations and document analyses. In the first phase, the researcher gathered information on the knowledge and implementation of phonological awareness before the intervention (i.e., a teacher training programme). In the second phase, the teachers received training about the concept of phonological awareness and its relevance in reading acquisition. The training programme included relevant teaching activities as well as learning and teaching support material. In the third phase, the researcher trained the participants in the implementation of phonological awareness and gathered data about the implementation process. The results indicated that if teachers received explicit training about phonological awareness and are provided with relevant learning and teaching support material, they are able to implement phonological awareness activities in grade R classrooms. The results of this study have implications for teacher training. The concept of phonological awareness, its relevance in reading acquisition as well as relevant teaching activities need to be included in the training of grade R teachers. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Learning and Teaching))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.

En raison de l’hétérogénéité et de l’extravagance de leur contenu, les lapidaires ont souvent été délaissés et restent, encore à ce jour, très peu considérés dans les études sur la littérature médiévale. Le nombre important de manuscrits répertoriés attestent pourtant de leur grande popularité et de la place qu’occupaient les pierres précieuses dans la société et la littérature médiévales. Le lapidaire anonyme tanscrit par le manuscrit Paris, BnF, fonds français, 2007, un lapidaire en prose daté du XVe siècle, n’est à ce jour abordé que dans une seule étude, celle de Barbara Geromel, qui s’est intéressée surtout à un autre témoin (le Turin, Biblioteca Reale, Varia 110) dont le contenu – même s’il est incomplet – correspond en tout point à celui du manuscrit de Paris. Ce lapidaire en prose s’inscrit dans une histoire longue et riche, celle des pierres précieuses depuis l’Antiquité, mais s’en démarque également par son organisation complexe de la matière, puisqu’il adopte de manière partielle et imparfaite le paradigme alphabétique, jusqu’alors très peu employé dans les encyclopédies dû aux tensions qu’il incarnait vis-à-vis l’ordre théologique. Témoin matériel d’une sphère plus considérable encore – celle de l’encyclopédisme médiéval –, ce lapidaire participe à la compilation du savoir de jadis et invite à une étude plus approfondie, à la fois de la matière qu’il recèle, de ses sources, issues d’une quantité importante de traditions manuscrites, et de son classement alphabétique. / Regarding the heterogeneity and extravagant nature of their content, the lapidaries have too often been put aside from studies concerning medieval literature, and, still to this day, only a few of them have been studied by scholars. However, the very high number of known manuscripts of such texts does tell us a lot about the popularity and the role played by precious gems within medieval society and litterature. The prose lapidary copied in ms Paris, BnF, fonds français, 2007, a prosaic lapidary dated from the XVth century, has yet only been mentioned once, in a study by Barbara Geromel, who was mostly interested by another manuscript – albeit incomplete – of the same text : ms Turin, Biblioteca Reale, Varia 110. The content remaining in this manuscript corresponds precisely to the one found within the Paris manuscript. This manuscript written in prose represents one single step in a long and rich history (the tradition of describing precious stones dating back to the Antiquity). Nervertheless, it also differs from this tradition by its complex inner organisation of the subject, since it puts to use to this effect an imperfect and incomplete alphabetical paradigm as a mean of classification, an unpopular paradigm at the time, as it embodied elements difficult to correlate with the theological order. This lapidary, a material witness of an even larger intelectual context – the world of mediaeval encyclopedism –, participates to the compilation of knowledge from older times, and calls for deeper studies of its general content, sources (themselves coming from varied manuscript traditions) and usage of an alphabetical classification.