Jiří Nekvapil
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 191599 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jiří Nekvapil |
| NOMBRES | Jiří |
| APELLIDO | Nekvapil |
| FIRMA | NEKVAPIL J |
| AFILIACIONES | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1383-5122 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 312 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
“Chinese Czechs? No, I prefer Wenzhou Czechs.”
This study employs a multi-method qualitative approach, incorporating interviewbased language biographies and eight months of field observation, to document the dynamic evolution of the family language policy (FLP) of a Chinese diaspora family in the Czech Republic, including how the family members envisage future policies. Utilizing Language Management Theory (LMT) instead of Spolsky’s tripartite model, the research integrates perspectives from …
Introduction
Language surveys and censuses have long occupied a privileged position in language planning and policy (LPP) as sources of authoritative empirical evidence, mostly treated as neutral instruments of measurement. This special issue advances a reconceptualisation of language surveys and censuses as constitutive instruments of language governance. Drawing on classic LPP theory, Language Management Theory, and critical scholarship, the collection theo…
In anticipation of the outcomes of censuses
Interest, Power, and Attitudes Toward International Communication
This study investigated the language choices of provincial governments in China by employing the concepts of interest, norm, and power within the Language Management Theory (LMT) framework. We approached this issue by examining which language options were presented on the websites of 31 provincial governments in China (Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan not included), and found that 11 offered Chinese versions only, 16 offered both Chinese and English …
The Language Management Approach
Central Bank Transparency as a Dialogical Accomplishment
This paper is a case study of the Czech central bank's communication with the public following the bank's decision to devalue the Czech currency. The aim is to contribute to knowledge of how central banks discharge their obligations to be transparent in communicating controversial decisions and actions. It is argued that transparency cannot be considered an individual act of the bank, but a joint dialogical accomplishment, which includes, among o…
Language Management Theory as one approach in Language Policy and Planning
Language Policy and Planning is currently a significantly diversified research area and thus it is not easy to find common denominators that help to define basic approaches within it. Richard B. Baldauf attempted to do so by differentiating between four basic approaches: (1) the classical approach, (2) the language management approach (Language Management Theory, LMT), (3) the domain approach and (4) the critical approach [Baldauf, R. B. (Citatio…
An introduction
In these introductory remarks, the authors deal with the metaphors "top-down", "bottom-up" and related concepts in the Language Policy and Planning research. Furthermore, they sketch out the position of Language Management Theory in this field of study and characterize "language management" in various research traditions. Afterward, the main features of Language Management Theory are presented with emphasis placed on the relationship between "sim…
The Problem of Relevance in Thematically Oriented Biographical Interview
The thematically oriented biographical interview (TOBI) is a research tool used frequently in contemporary qualitative research. Compared to other interviewing techniques, its main advantage is its combination of a thematic focus and sensitivity to the perspective of the interviewee. The authors demonstrate that TOBI is made up of several constituents: first, it is a speech infrastructure (comprising a conversational and a narrative component), a…
Narrative Analysis in Sociological Research
Against the backdrop of the current popularity of the concept of narrative in the social sciences the authors analyse the uses of narrative analysis in empirical social research and provide a unifying frame based on Paul Ricoeur's notion of narrative mimesis. To begin they situate 'narrative' in the context of the social research tradition. Using both a simple and an elaborated definition of narrative they outline the main approaches to narrative…
Practical historians and adversaries
This article extends the idea of ‘structured immediacy’ (Leudar et al., 2008b) by investigating methods that adversaries use to make the past relevant and consequential in conflicts. Our strategy was to revisit our analysis of political discourse immediately following the 9/11 attacks in the USA (Leudar et al., 2004; Leudar and Nekvapil, 2007). We did this to document what the adversaries did as ‘practical historians’. We found that they used two…
Revisited
Drawing on ethnomethodology, this article addresses what participants do as 'practical historians' - how they use and produce history in and through their activities. Specifi cally, it studies how historical contingencies are built into antagonistic political talk and to what effect. To that end, the authors revisit three of their own papers, all of which analysed how the 9/11 attacks in the United States were represented. The authors reanalyse t…
Pre-interaction management in multinational companies in Central Europe
This article is devoted to the linguistic, communicative and sociocultural situation in branches of multinational companies located in the Czech Republic and Hungary. There are typically several languages used in these branches. In addition to the local languages, there are the languages of the parent companies – most commonly English or German, and also French. The core of the article is the description of the strategies on various levels of the…
Hostility themes in media, community and refugee narratives
In this article, we use the concept of `dialogical network' systematically to analyse hostilities towards refugees and asylum seekers in the UK and their effects on refugees' and asylum seekers' biographical self-presentations and psychological adjustment. We find that hostility towards refugees took different forms which were in part contingent on contemporary social and political activities. We also found that all our refugee and asylum-seeker …
On the Language Situation in the Czech Republic
Article On the Language Situation in the Czech Republic: What Has (not) Happened after the Accession of the Country to the EU was published on December 13, 2007 in the journal Sociolinguistica (volume 21, issue 1)
From Language Planning to Language Management
On the relationship between small and large Slavic languages
This article draws on the analysis of (standard) Slavic languages comprising the following pairs: Slovenian – Serbo-Croatian, Lower Sorbian – Upper Sorbian, Slovak – Czech, Rusyn – Slovak, Belarusian – Russian, and Ukrainian – Russian. In these pairs, the first language may be classified as small, the second one as large. This may be done on the basis of the following criteria: number of speakers, spread of the language, its economic strength, st…
On Language Management in Multinational Companies in the Czech Republic
In this paper, we demonstrate the dialectical relationship between micro and macro language planning: macro planning influences micro planning and yet macro planning results (or should result) from micro planning. The relation between the two planning perspectives is illustrated within the framework of Language Management Theory (Jernudd & Neustupný, 1987; Neustupný & Nekvapil, 2003). We deal with the relations between various levels of ‘organise…
Presenting the Events of 9/11
This article focuses on how the actions of enemies are co-ordinated in and through the mass media. Using ethnomethodologically informed membership categorisation analysis, the authors establish links between the presentation of the September 2001 attacks on New York and Washington in the public addresses of George W. Bush, Osama bin Laden and Vclav Havel. They find that all three distinguished between 'us' and 'them' in order to recruit allies an…
Media dialogical networks and political argumentation
In this paper we provide a synopsis of our research ondialogical networksin media (Leudar 1998; Leudar and Nekvapil 1998; Nekvapil and Leudar 1998; Nekvapil and Leudar 2002a, 2002b, Leudar, Marsland and Nekvapil 2003, Nekvapil and Leudar in press). We outline the concept, provide an example of analysis with that concept, and summarize constitutive properties of these networks. The analysis uses materials from both Czech and British newspaper arti…
On Membership Categorization
This article concerns the attacks on New York and Washington in September 2001. We use Membership Categorization Analysis to establish how the key figures involved in the conflict represented these events and the participants in them. We analyse public addresses made soon after the attacks by the US President George W. Bush, the British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Osama bin Laden of Al Qaeda. Each speaker distinguished 'us' from 'them' and form…
Language Management in the Czech Republic
This monograph, based on the Language Management model, provides information on both the simple (discourse-based) and organised modes of attention to language problems in the Czech Republic. This includes but is not limited to the language policy of the State. This approach does not satisfy itself with discussing problems of language varieties but tries also to attend to issues pertaining to situations, functions, and other aspects of communicati…
Language biographies and the analysis of language situations
Article Language biographies and the analysis of language situations: on the life of the German community in the Czech Republic was published on July 10, 2003 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2003, issue 162)
Sekvenční struktury v mediálních dialogických sítích
Dialogical networks' are communications which occur in mass media. One of their characteristics is that contributions of individual actors -politicians, journalists, representatives of pressure groups, etc. -are distributed in time and space. (A politician can, for instance, react in the media to what another politician expressed publically elsewhere). Another central property of dialogical networks is that an individual's contribution to a netwo…
Studies In Functional Stylistics (Linguistic & Literary Studies in Eastern Europe)
On Membership Categorization
This article concerns the attacks on New York and Washington in September 2001. We use Membership Categorization Analysis to establish how the key figures involved in the conflict represented these events and the participants in them. We analyse public addresses made soon after the attacks by the US President George W. Bush, the British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Osama bin Laden of Al Qaeda. Each speaker distinguished 'us' from 'them' and form…
Hostility themes in media, community and refugee narratives
In this article, we use the concept of `dialogical network' systematically to analyse hostilities towards refugees and asylum seekers in the UK and their effects on refugees' and asylum seekers' biographical self-presentations and psychological adjustment. We find that hostility towards refugees took different forms which were in part contingent on contemporary social and political activities. We also found that all our refugee and asylum-seeker …
Media dialogical networks and political argumentation
In this paper we provide a synopsis of our research ondialogical networksin media (Leudar 1998; Leudar and Nekvapil 1998; Nekvapil and Leudar 1998; Nekvapil and Leudar 2002a, 2002b, Leudar, Marsland and Nekvapil 2003, Nekvapil and Leudar in press). We outline the concept, provide an example of analysis with that concept, and summarize constitutive properties of these networks. The analysis uses materials from both Czech and British newspaper arti…
Presentations of Romanies in the Czech Media
This article concerns categorizations of Romanies in Czech media. We analysed four television debates which were broadcast in the Czech Republic between 1990 and 1995. All of them concerned Romanies, and Czechs and Romanies participated in each of them. The analytic technique we used was membership categorization analysis (MCA), associated with Sacks (1992), and with contemporary ethnomethodology. Our analysis focused on how descriptions of Roman…
Language Management in the Czech Republic
This monograph, based on the Language Management model, provides information on both the simple (discourse-based) and organised modes of attention to language problems in the Czech Republic. This includes but is not limited to the language policy of the State. This approach does not satisfy itself with discussing problems of language varieties but tries also to attend to issues pertaining to situations, functions, and other aspects of communicati…
On Language Management in Multinational Companies in the Czech Republic
In this paper, we demonstrate the dialectical relationship between micro and macro language planning: macro planning influences micro planning and yet macro planning results (or should result) from micro planning. The relation between the two planning perspectives is illustrated within the framework of Language Management Theory (Jernudd & Neustupný, 1987; Neustupný & Nekvapil, 2003). We deal with the relations between various levels of ‘organise…
Practical historians and adversaries
This article extends the idea of ‘structured immediacy’ (Leudar et al., 2008b) by investigating methods that adversaries use to make the past relevant and consequential in conflicts. Our strategy was to revisit our analysis of political discourse immediately following the 9/11 attacks in the USA (Leudar et al., 2004; Leudar and Nekvapil, 2007). We did this to document what the adversaries did as ‘practical historians’. We found that they used two…
On the Emergence of Political Identity in the Czech Mass Media
Six days after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 6th January 1993, an article appeared in the Czech national daily Rude pravo. It reported two events – a meeting of the preparatory committee of the Democratic Party of Sudetenland (Cz. Demokraticka strana Sudety) and a subsequent news conference given by its chairman, Jaroslav Bluhmel. The party and its chairman were previously almost unknown to the public. The two events, however, turned out t…
Language Management Theory as one approach in Language Policy and Planning
Language Policy and Planning is currently a significantly diversified research area and thus it is not easy to find common denominators that help to define basic approaches within it. Richard B. Baldauf attempted to do so by differentiating between four basic approaches: (1) the classical approach, (2) the language management approach (Language Management Theory, LMT), (3) the domain approach and (4) the critical approach [Baldauf, R. B. (Citatio…
Pre-interaction management in multinational companies in Central Europe
This article is devoted to the linguistic, communicative and sociocultural situation in branches of multinational companies located in the Czech Republic and Hungary. There are typically several languages used in these branches. In addition to the local languages, there are the languages of the parent companies – most commonly English or German, and also French. The core of the article is the description of the strategies on various levels of the…
An introduction
In these introductory remarks, the authors deal with the metaphors "top-down", "bottom-up" and related concepts in the Language Policy and Planning research. Furthermore, they sketch out the position of Language Management Theory in this field of study and characterize "language management" in various research traditions. Afterward, the main features of Language Management Theory are presented with emphasis placed on the relationship between "sim…
Language biographies and the analysis of language situations
Article Language biographies and the analysis of language situations: on the life of the German community in the Czech Republic was published on July 10, 2003 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2003, issue 162)
Presenting the Events of 9/11
This article focuses on how the actions of enemies are co-ordinated in and through the mass media. Using ethnomethodologically informed membership categorisation analysis, the authors establish links between the presentation of the September 2001 attacks on New York and Washington in the public addresses of George W. Bush, Osama bin Laden and Vclav Havel. They find that all three distinguished between 'us' and 'them' in order to recruit allies an…
Sekvenční struktury v mediálních dialogických sítích
Dialogical networks' are communications which occur in mass media. One of their characteristics is that contributions of individual actors -politicians, journalists, representatives of pressure groups, etc. -are distributed in time and space. (A politician can, for instance, react in the media to what another politician expressed publically elsewhere). Another central property of dialogical networks is that an individual's contribution to a netwo…
On non-self-evident relationships between language and ethnicity
Article On non-self-evident relationships between language and ethnicity: How Germans do not speak German, and Czechs do not speak Czech was published on January 1, 2000 in the journal Multilingua (volume 19, issue 1-2)
Central Bank Transparency as a Dialogical Accomplishment
This paper is a case study of the Czech central bank's communication with the public following the bank's decision to devalue the Czech currency. The aim is to contribute to knowledge of how central banks discharge their obligations to be transparent in communicating controversial decisions and actions. It is argued that transparency cannot be considered an individual act of the bank, but a joint dialogical accomplishment, which includes, among o…
Narrative Analysis in Sociological Research
Against the backdrop of the current popularity of the concept of narrative in the social sciences the authors analyse the uses of narrative analysis in empirical social research and provide a unifying frame based on Paul Ricoeur's notion of narrative mimesis. To begin they situate 'narrative' in the context of the social research tradition. Using both a simple and an elaborated definition of narrative they outline the main approaches to narrative…
Revisited
Drawing on ethnomethodology, this article addresses what participants do as 'practical historians' - how they use and produce history in and through their activities. Specifi cally, it studies how historical contingencies are built into antagonistic political talk and to what effect. To that end, the authors revisit three of their own papers, all of which analysed how the 9/11 attacks in the United States were represented. The authors reanalyse t…
Reader in Czech Sociolinguistics
Although in Czechoslovakia sociolinguistics is not institutionalized, some results and approaches of Czech linguistics appear to be sociolinguistic, and that from the viewpoint of other linguistic and scientific traditions in general. The socio-component' of Czech linguistics took shape as early as between the two world wars in the activity of the Prague Linguistic School, and is influenced in a positive way also by a contemporary philosophico-id…
Reader in Czech sociolinguistics
Reader in Czech Sociolinguistics
Functionalism in linguistics (linguistic and literary studies in Eastern Europe, vol. 20)
The Prague school and its legacy
Studies in Functional Stylistics
The 15 contributions in the present collection can be divided roughly into three groups: (1) Papers directly following up functional stylistics and the theory of language culture, elaborated in the classical period of the Prague Linguistic School. (2) Papers concerning the problems of style in a wider communicative arena. These contributions are closely related to contemporary text linguistics and also deal with problems involving psycholinguisti…
On the Emergence of Political Identity in the Czech Mass Media
Six days after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 6th January 1993, an article appeared in the Czech national daily Rude pravo. It reported two events – a meeting of the preparatory committee of the Democratic Party of Sudetenland (Cz. Demokraticka strana Sudety) and a subsequent news conference given by its chairman, Jaroslav Bluhmel. The party and its chairman were previously almost unknown to the public. The two events, however, turned out t…
Studies In Functional Stylistics (Linguistic & Literary Studies in Eastern Europe)
The formation of interpretive sociolinguistics. A synopsis
Presentations of Romanies in the Czech Media
This article concerns categorizations of Romanies in Czech media. We analysed four television debates which were broadcast in the Czech Republic between 1990 and 1995. All of them concerned Romanies, and Czechs and Romanies participated in each of them. The analytic technique we used was membership categorization analysis (MCA), associated with Sacks (1992), and with contemporary ethnomethodology. Our analysis focused on how descriptions of Roman…
On non-self-evident relationships between language and ethnicity
Article On non-self-evident relationships between language and ethnicity: How Germans do not speak German, and Czechs do not speak Czech was published on January 1, 2000 in the journal Multilingua (volume 19, issue 1-2)
Sekvenční struktury v mediálních dialogických sítích
Dialogical networks' are communications which occur in mass media. One of their characteristics is that contributions of individual actors -politicians, journalists, representatives of pressure groups, etc. -are distributed in time and space. (A politician can, for instance, react in the media to what another politician expressed publically elsewhere). Another central property of dialogical networks is that an individual's contribution to a netwo…
Language Management in the Czech Republic
This monograph, based on the Language Management model, provides information on both the simple (discourse-based) and organised modes of attention to language problems in the Czech Republic. This includes but is not limited to the language policy of the State. This approach does not satisfy itself with discussing problems of language varieties but tries also to attend to issues pertaining to situations, functions, and other aspects of communicati…
Language biographies and the analysis of language situations
Article Language biographies and the analysis of language situations: on the life of the German community in the Czech Republic was published on July 10, 2003 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2003, issue 162)
Media dialogical networks and political argumentation
In this paper we provide a synopsis of our research ondialogical networksin media (Leudar 1998; Leudar and Nekvapil 1998; Nekvapil and Leudar 1998; Nekvapil and Leudar 2002a, 2002b, Leudar, Marsland and Nekvapil 2003, Nekvapil and Leudar in press). We outline the concept, provide an example of analysis with that concept, and summarize constitutive properties of these networks. The analysis uses materials from both Czech and British newspaper arti…
On Membership Categorization
This article concerns the attacks on New York and Washington in September 2001. We use Membership Categorization Analysis to establish how the key figures involved in the conflict represented these events and the participants in them. We analyse public addresses made soon after the attacks by the US President George W. Bush, the British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Osama bin Laden of Al Qaeda. Each speaker distinguished 'us' from 'them' and form…
On Language Management in Multinational Companies in the Czech Republic
In this paper, we demonstrate the dialectical relationship between micro and macro language planning: macro planning influences micro planning and yet macro planning results (or should result) from micro planning. The relation between the two planning perspectives is illustrated within the framework of Language Management Theory (Jernudd & Neustupný, 1987; Neustupný & Nekvapil, 2003). We deal with the relations between various levels of ‘organise…
Presenting the Events of 9/11
This article focuses on how the actions of enemies are co-ordinated in and through the mass media. Using ethnomethodologically informed membership categorisation analysis, the authors establish links between the presentation of the September 2001 attacks on New York and Washington in the public addresses of George W. Bush, Osama bin Laden and Vclav Havel. They find that all three distinguished between 'us' and 'them' in order to recruit allies an…
On the Language Situation in the Czech Republic
Article On the Language Situation in the Czech Republic: What Has (not) Happened after the Accession of the Country to the EU was published on December 13, 2007 in the journal Sociolinguistica (volume 21, issue 1)
From Language Planning to Language Management
On the relationship between small and large Slavic languages
This article draws on the analysis of (standard) Slavic languages comprising the following pairs: Slovenian – Serbo-Croatian, Lower Sorbian – Upper Sorbian, Slovak – Czech, Rusyn – Slovak, Belarusian – Russian, and Ukrainian – Russian. In these pairs, the first language may be classified as small, the second one as large. This may be done on the basis of the following criteria: number of speakers, spread of the language, its economic strength, st…
Hostility themes in media, community and refugee narratives
In this article, we use the concept of `dialogical network' systematically to analyse hostilities towards refugees and asylum seekers in the UK and their effects on refugees' and asylum seekers' biographical self-presentations and psychological adjustment. We find that hostility towards refugees took different forms which were in part contingent on contemporary social and political activities. We also found that all our refugee and asylum-seeker …
Pre-interaction management in multinational companies in Central Europe
This article is devoted to the linguistic, communicative and sociocultural situation in branches of multinational companies located in the Czech Republic and Hungary. There are typically several languages used in these branches. In addition to the local languages, there are the languages of the parent companies – most commonly English or German, and also French. The core of the article is the description of the strategies on various levels of the…
Practical historians and adversaries
This article extends the idea of ‘structured immediacy’ (Leudar et al., 2008b) by investigating methods that adversaries use to make the past relevant and consequential in conflicts. Our strategy was to revisit our analysis of political discourse immediately following the 9/11 attacks in the USA (Leudar et al., 2004; Leudar and Nekvapil, 2007). We did this to document what the adversaries did as ‘practical historians’. We found that they used two…
Revisited
Drawing on ethnomethodology, this article addresses what participants do as 'practical historians' - how they use and produce history in and through their activities. Specifi cally, it studies how historical contingencies are built into antagonistic political talk and to what effect. To that end, the authors revisit three of their own papers, all of which analysed how the 9/11 attacks in the United States were represented. The authors reanalyse t…
Linguistics (25 obras) · Sociology (24 obras) · Philosophy (20 obras) · Czech (15 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Computer Science (11 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (11 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Philosophy (10 obras)