This thesis attempts to clarify the period issue of satirical signs of socialism of the prose "Black Barons" with regard to the Czechoslovak normalization culture. It focuses primarily on the historical role of the work and its artistic components. It studies them with a particularly semiotic perspective of Lotman's texts culturally and literary. Its core is then an analysis of the literary structure of mentioned book. It is realized with regard to the partial characters and aims to find out which specific parts of the world of the story are ridiculed and for what exactly the title is (at the time of its first publication) censorial unacceptable. Keywords: sign, language, system, structure, culture, socialism, satire, Black Barons

Die Erforschung des musikalischen Stils hat viele Facetten, darunter die komplexen kognitiven Strategien, die beim Verstehen musikalischer Informationen zum Tragen kommen, die Konstruktion experimenteller Verfahren, mit denen Musik als ästhetisches Phänomen untersucht werden kann, und die Definition des Begriffs ›Stil‹ selbst. In ihrem Beitrag Le regole della musica (1999) analysierten Mario Baroni, Rossana Dalmonte und Carlo Jacoboni einen Korpus von Arien des Barockkomponisten Giovanni Legrenzi und konstruierten mit Hilfe einer generativen Grammatik ein Regelsystem, das in eine Software namens Legre implementiert wurde, die vermeintlich Arien im Stil von Legrenzi ›komponiert‹. Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist es, die stilistische Validität von Legre mit Hilfe von Methoden aus der kognitiven Psychologie zu überprüfen. Es wurden Experimente mit Musikern und Nicht-Musikern durchgeführt, um festzustellen, ob Legre eine gültige Grammatik von Legrenzi herzustellen in der Lage ist, d.h., ob eine generative Grammatik den Stil eines Komponisten beschreiben und wiedergeben kann. Die Ergebnisse zahlreicher Experimente zeigen einen Unterschied in der Unterscheidungsfähigkeit zwischen Musikern und Nicht-Musikern; die Leistung einer Person im Unterscheidungsprozess hängt nicht nur von der Einarbeitungsphase in die Aufgabe ab, sondern auch vom Vorwissen der Person. Das Zusammenspiel zwischen diesen Daten und theoretischen Überlegungen trägt dazu bei, die Natur des Stils zu erklären. / The investigation of musical style involves many facets, among them the complex cognitive strategies involved in the understanding of musical information, the construction of experimental procedures able to study music as an aesthetic phenomenon, and even the definition of the term “style” at all. In the work Le regole della musica (1999), Mario Baroni, Rossana Dalmonte, and Carlo Jacoboni analysed a corpus of arias by the baroque composer Giovanni Legrenzi, and by means of a generative grammar they constructed a system of rules that was implemented in a software named Legre, which supposedly “composes” arias in Legrenzi’s style. The aim of the present study is to verify the stylistic validity of Legre’s output by using methods adopted in cognitive psychology. Experiments with musicians and non-musicians were designed in order to assess whether Legre is a valid grammar of Legrenzi—that is, whether a generative grammar is able to describe and recreate the style of a composer. The results of numerous experiments reveal a difference in discrimination ability between musicians and non-musicians; a person’s performance in the process of discrimination depends not only on the training phase of the task, but also on one’s prior knowledge. The interaction between these data and theoretical reflection contributes to the explication of the nature of style.

This master thesis is focused on evaluating media content connected with 2017 government crisis and the influence of media ownership on that media content. The thesis analyses five major daily newspapers. Two of them were owned by Andrej Babiš, one of the two main characters of the crisis, before he put them into the trust fund. The content is analysed by quantitative metrics which are further interpreted. The result of the analysis is, that the influence of media ownership can be observed. MF Dnes and Lidovky are overall more critical to Bohuslav Sobotka than to Babiš meanwhile for example Denik is much more critical to Babiš.