{"id":2289,"date":"2015-03-02T18:42:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T17:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2016-10-04T10:00:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T09:00:57","slug":"words-words-words-czech-language-and-society-mirrored-in-presidential-speeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/2015\/words-words-words-czech-language-and-society-mirrored-in-presidential-speeches\/","title":{"rendered":"Words, Words, Words:  Czech Language and Society  Mirrored in Presidential Speeches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A talk by V\u00c3\u00a1clav Cvr\u00c4\u008dek, PhD<br \/>\nWed, March 11, 2015<br \/>\nat 6:30pm\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nat Bohemian National Hall<br \/>\n321 E 73 St, New York City<\/p>\n<p>Suggested donation: $5.00<\/p>\n<p>In cooperation with the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can future societal developments be detected in changing word patterns in presidential speeches? How can computational linguistics and national corpus help? <\/p>\n<p>In his talk, Dr. Cvr\u00c4\u008dek will explain the system and practical use of the national corpus, an extensive database of texts used for language analysis. He will present a case of the last Communist president of Czechoslovakia Gustav Hus\u00c3\u00a1k and his speeches from 1975 until the Velvet Revolution in 1989. <\/p>\n<p>Followed by a wine reception.<\/p>\n<p>RSVP: newyork at svu2000.org<\/p>\n<p><strong>V\u00c3\u00a1clav Cvr\u00c4\u008dek<\/strong>, Ph.D., is director of the Czech National Corpus Institute at Charles University (\u00c4\u0152NK UK) in Prague, one of the most well-regarded centers for corpus-based language research in the world. His research focuses on corpus linguistics, grammar, quantitative linguistics and discourse analysis.  His publications include the Grammar of Contemporary Czech (Mluvnice sou\u00c4\u008dasn\u00c3\u00a9 \u00c4\u008de\u00c5\u00a1tiny, 2010), the first corpus-based description of written as well as spoken Czech. He is also a co-lexicographer of several frequency dictionaries: Dictionary of Karel \u00c4\u0152apek (2007), Dictionary of Bohumil Hrabal (2009) and the Totalitarian Dictionary of Czech (2010). Dr. Cvr\u00c4\u008dek has been a Fulbright fellow at Brown University and is actively involved in international collaboration with US and European universities.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-content\/Cvrcek-Flyer-4-e1425318008899.jpg\" alt=\"Words\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A talk by V\u00c3\u00a1clav Cvr\u00c4\u008dek, PhD Wed, March 11, 2015 at 6:30pm\u00c2\u00a0 at Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73 St, New York City Suggested donation: $5.00 In cooperation with the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York Can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/2015\/words-words-words-czech-language-and-society-mirrored-in-presidential-speeches\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-46"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2312,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions\/2312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}