This diploma thesis is concerned with the comparison of student slang word-formation processes in Czech and English gained in a form of a questionnaire spread among Czech and English students of secondary schools and universities. The thesis is composed of two parts the theoretical one and the practical one. The theoretical part deals with varieties of Czech national language, with slang in general, it is focused on student slang and on productive ways of forming slang words in both Czech and English. The essence of the practical part is to perform a comparative analysis of word-formation processes of selected words and also to make a dictionary of student slang expressions.

The "On Contemporary Police Slang" thesis describes the language expressions of contemporary municipal and state police officers while using the language material excerpted from the active users of police slang. Nevertheless, the thesis also tries to put the slang terms of police officers into a wider context of police communication including its both official and semi-official level, psycholinguistic and legislative setting and relation to other linguistic structures and semi-structures not only from the contemporary phraseology point of view but also from the perspective of semantic course of used expressions. There is also the word-forming process depiction put into a wider context of general trends that can be observed in the field of slangs.

This dissertation primarily describes the origin and development of slang, further it examines the issue of sociolinguistics, it is also concerned in the field of social background of students of primary and secondary schools with regards to slang terminology of these, and it assesses this relationship afterwards. At first, the dissertation acquaints with the development of language as such, consequently discusses standard and non-standard language, and informal language into which argot, professional language and above mentioned slang can be included. Based on this point of view, the piece of work concerns the concept of slang in Czech literature as well as in foreign literature, the constitutive features of slang, the most traditional methods of formatting slang expressions, and it mentions the issue of social dialectology. Besides, the thesis is focused on sociolinguistics' branches, especially it treats sociolinguistics as a science not quite definable. It offers several points of view on the issue of sociolinguistics, it defines the relationship between sociolinguistics and language from the variational linguistics' point of view, introduces the most common sociolinguistic methods and is devoted to theories of Basil Bernstein as well, that inspired it greatly. Based on these points of view the...

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Toronto, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 116-128).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Lund, Sweden.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Lund, Sweden.

With the rise of the internet, researchers have begun to examine how this new medium is used and how it changes our lives. There has been particular interest (as well as concern), both in academic circles and in popular culture and media, in the linguistic forms found online, such as emoticons and specialized abbreviations (e.g. 'LOL' for 'laughing out loud'). However, while there are many studies to be found on emoticons, these well-known forms are only a very small subset of the wide variety of specialized forms found online, and studies examining other types of online forms are few and far between. Many of these forms, like emoticons, can convey facial expressions, but they can also communicate sounds and other actions, forms of expression that, in face-to-face interactions, are usually the domain of studies in nonverbal communication. Because of the correlation between these two areas, I suggest that the vast store of literature on traditional nonverbal communication can help us to understand online correlates of nonverbal behavior by providing a starting point for future studies into the intricacies of online forms. / text

Zugl.: Innsbruck, Univ., Diplomarbeit, 2005