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The applicant's goal is to develop a didactically and methodologically applicable model of teaching the Slovak language in primary and secondary schools, which will reflect both the ideas of inclusive education (i.e. maximally supportive and accepting education for all), and conscious efforts to strengthen the potential inclusive character of the language - Slovak, with a view to deepening interpretive competence. From this methodological perspective, the functioning of the interpretive mechanism can also be understood as a process of inclusivity, i.e. the integration of certain quanta of the information offer of the text into the student's knowledge and experience complex, which has an evident impact on his full-fledged life in the conditions of the current modern digital society.

The proposed topic is a continuation of the ongoing, financially supported research on manifestations of aflection in the contemporary Slovak language. The aim of the work is to summarize the individual manifestations of aflection in the system of flexible, but especially inflexible parts of speech and to capture in an explanatory way possible shifts in the perception and interpretation of these phenomena in relation to the synchronous dynamics and communication culture of contemporary Slovak. The work presupposes independent empirical research based on the identification and classification of inflectional morphosyntactic components in various types of texts (especially on the axis of dialogic versus monologic texts) with specific regard to their pragmatic-communicative function.

The research will probe the needs and variations of communicative interactions in a constellation of actors in different roles - for example, linguists as academics, linguists as teachers, linguists as translators, linguists as "experts" in the media, both offline and online). Empirical research combining quantitative questionnaire findings with findings from ethnographic interviews will provide a database for interpreting the effects of interactions in a given sphere (with regard to mutual equality, freedom, full self-realization... and other aspects of inclusiveness according to J. Dolník, Language in the Dynamics of Democracy, 2023). The outcome should be the optimization of the verbal behavior of actors in the monitored sphere, excluding anti-inclusive or quasi-inclusive practices.

The subject of the thesis is selected phenomena from the historical development of the Slovak language (its historical (cultural) or regional (dialectal) varieties), the description and subsequent interpretation of which will be based on the concept of linguistic change as a gradual and complex process conditioned by intra-linguistic relations and extra-linguistic factors. The aim is to contribute to the knowledge of the process of language change on the basis of the research of linguistic variation and its variability over time and in communication. The choice of specific change cases, historical period or regional dialect will be specified after mutual consultation with the candidate. Basic research will include archival research of historical sources and/or field research in the selected region.

The subject of the dissertation is the research of the status and functioning of selected foreign languages, which were used as cultural languages in the territory of present-day Slovakia, and how their status and function have changed in the course of the historical development of the linguistic situation up to today. The aim of the thesis is to extend the existing knowledge about the functioning of foreign languages in the territory of present-day Slovakia, which mostly concerns language contacts, spheres of foreign language use and language interference (e.g. borrowings from these languages into Slovak), by interpretation from the perspective of the theory of language planning (especially in terms of status and its dynamics against the background of the social situation) and by research into attitudes towards these languages. The choice of the specific language(s) and the historical period will be specified after consultation with the candidate, or in the first year of study. Basic research will include archival research of historical sources, official documents and contemporary periodicals.

The topic of the thesis is the etymological analysis of a specific lexical-semantic group in Slovak (with regard to the contemporary standard language, Older Slovak, and Slovak dialects). The objective is a complex etymological interpretation of the relevant Slovak lexicon based on the standard methods and procedures which are used in contemporary etymological research

The research on oikonymy in relation to the settlement history

The development of urbanonymy and its linguistic analysis

The aim is to describe the dynamics and evolution of street names of medium and large-sized cities. The basis will be lexico-semantic and word-formation classifications. The development of urbanonymy will be analysed in stages defined by important milestones in the development of the city and the whole society. Changes in the use of motivational categories and word-formation processes will be illustrated by diagrams. The dissertation will include a list of contemporary urbanonyms with their explanation, the time of their origin and previous names of the locality in question.

Exonyms in Slovak

Language Changes in the Development of Slovak from the Perspective of Historical and Variational Sociolinguistics

The subject of the thesis is selected phenomena from the historical development of the Slovak language (its historical (cultural) or regional (dialectal) varieties), the description and subsequent interpretation of which will be based on the concept of linguistic change as a gradual and complex process conditioned by intra-linguistic relations and extra-linguistic factors. The aim is to contribute to the knowledge of the process of language change on the basis of the research of linguistic variation and its variability over time and in communication. The choice of specific change cases, historical period or regional dialect will be specified after mutual consultation with the candidate. Basic research will include archival research of historical sources and/or field research in the selected region.

Foreign Languages in the Cultural History of the Slovak Language Community

The subject of the dissertation is the research of the status and functioning of selected foreign languages, which were used as cultural languages in the territory of present-day Slovakia, and how their status and function have changed in the course of the historical development of the linguistic situation up to today. The aim of the thesis is to extend the existing knowledge about the functioning of foreign languages in the territory of present-day Slovakia, which mostly concerns language contacts, spheres of foreign language use and language interference (e.g. borrowings from these languages into Slovak), by interpretation from the perspective of the theory of language planning (especially in terms of status and its dynamics against the background of the social situation) and by research into attitudes towards these languages. The choice of the specific language(s) and the historical period will be specified after consultation with the candidate, or in the first year of study. Basic research will include archival research of historical sources, official documents and contemporary periodicals.

The development of Slovak legal terminology and pursuit of its unification after 1843