Základy štatistiky v sociálnych vedách I....

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Vladimír Lichner

The presented university textbook presents a basic overview of statistical theory and practice intended for students of social work, including examples of their use in specific studies. This text deals with the first part of statistical practice, namely descriptive analysis, which we perceive as a basic condition for the processing of any empirical research and is also important in grasping typical statistical principles and concepts.

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Komunita a komunitná práca

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Katarína ŠiňanskáDušan Šlosár

The presented monograph deals with various views on of the community issue and community work, with which  area of social work or other helping professions is closely connected. It offers theoretical analysis as a basic theoretical framework of the issue, which is necessary to know in the study and in the performance of the practice in the helping profession. The authors consider community work to be one of the possibilities for fully involving the inhabitants in co-responsible decision-making on things that fundamentally affect their lives. The monograph characterizes in  fifteen chapters the community and the processes that takes place in it, outlines a brief history and approaches in community work. It offers theoretical background, which is used in community work as a necessary prerequisite for a professional approach practice. The monograph also points to the important position of professional help in  community.

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Hovorové lexémy v publicistických textoch

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Lucia Jasinská

Predkladaná monografia Hovorové lexémy v publicistických textoch predstavuje originálny pohľad na analýzu a opis lexikálnych i gramatických výrazových prostriedkov v skúmanej komunikačnej oblasti.

Hlavným výskumným problémom je kolokvializácia výrazových prostriedkov ako príznaková vlastnosť vo verejne publikovaných publicistických textoch. Východiskom samotného výskumu bolo vyhľadanie lexikálnych jednotiek so štylistickým kvalifikátorom hovorovosti v Krátkom slovníku slovenského jazyka. Ich prítomnosť a frekvencia, ako aj prípadné významové posuny boli overované vo verejne prístupných mediálnych komunikátoch. Keďže ide o výskum „živého jazyka“, pramenným materiálom sú publicistické texty v datábaze Slovenského národného korpusu.

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Sociálnoprávna ochrana detí a rodiny v...

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Magdaléna HovanováDušan Šlosár

The monograph deals with the issue of social protection of the family, where the basis is a view of the family as a natural part of human and social life. The starting point is provided by the institutes that create and structure it, influence its value orientation, the development of social relations within the family, but also relations to the social environment. In broader contexts, the monographic treatment of social protection provides the results of transdisciplinary knowledge. It deals with the work of helping professionals with functional and non-functional families and families with special needs. It offers problem solving through tailored methods, techniques, procedures and measures used by various helping professions in the field of social protection and social guardianship.

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Bedeker onkologickej liečby

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Lucia TóthováKatarína ŠiňanskáEva Žiaková

Sprievodca onkologickou liečbou vznikol v čase, kedy sa ešte viac zdôraznil význam zdravia, ktoré sa stáva akousi megahodnotou nového moderného „pandemického“ človeka. Použitie pojmu „pandemický“ človek vznikol samozrejme v súvislosti so vznikom koronavírovej pandémie na celom svete, ale predovšetkým preto, že sa iné nebezpečné dlhodobé ochorenia, ktoré ohrozujú súčasného človeka, nejako dostávajú do úzadia. Závažnosť takýchto chorôb (akými je samozrejme aj rakovina) sa ale nezmenší tým, že sa upriamila pozornosť na niečo akútnejšie. To je veľmi dôležité si uvedomiť a nepodľahnúť ilúzii, že ak prekonáme akútne nebezpečenstvo, tak sa automaticky zlepší stav aj v dlhodobých ochoreniach. Myslíme si, že je to práve naopak, nakoľko dlhotrvajúca existencia stresu, vplyv sociálnych negatívnych a neustále pôsobiacich faktorov, medzi ktoré nesporne patrí pandemická situácia, zhoršuje nielen psychický, ale aj somatický stav.

Bedeker onkologickej liečby sa práve snaží poukázať na tie faktory – psychologické a sociálne – ktoré negatívne „podporujú“ vznik rakoviny v akejkoľvek forme a pozitívne môže ovplyvniť liečbu a vyrovnávanie sa s chorobou.

Bedeker onkologickej liečby ponúka možnosti sociálneho zapojenia sa do skupiny iných ľudí, ktorí sa takisto liečia z onkologickej choroby a umožňujú zdieľať psychologicky aj odborne obdobnú situáciu s tými, ktorí riešia podobné, ak aj nie také isté problémy v liečbe. Autorky dúfajú, že sa bedeker, ktorý vychádza knižne aj elektronicky, dostane do rúk tým, ktorých urobí samostatnejších v zdolávaní tak ťažkého nepriateľa, akým je rakovina.

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Etika vedy a techniky (vybrané problémy)

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Ľubov VladykováMarián Bednár a kol.

The university textbook Ethics of Science and Technique (Selected Problems) is a collection of contributions by various authors who deal with selected problems and areas of science and technique. For the last hundred years, we can observe the rapid development of science and technique (technology). The transition of society in the 20th century into the information age and in the current 21st century into the digital age brings radical challenges and changes in all areas of human life, but especially in the moral field. Ethical discussions, responding to the development of science and technique (technology), have stimulated the emergence of ethics of science and technique, which as a subdiscipline of applied ethics is a way out of the conflict between professional autonomy, social control and self-regulation of action and behaviour; not only in science and technique, but also in economy and politics. In the digital age, technique, technology and science are fundamentally changing our lives; from the way we work to the way we communicate, how we fight local and global problems, and how we try to solve societal problems. These radical changes are not without controversy, and many provoke intense debates that are often polarized or associated with scientific ambiguities or dishonest demagoguery and ideology.

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Špecifiká práce s mládežou v neziskovom sektore

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Katarína Šiňanská

The presented university textbook deals with various views on the issue of youth work in the non-governmental non-profit sector, with which the area of social work or other helping professions is closely connected. It offers theoretical analysis as a basic theoretical framework of the issue, which is necessary to know during the study and in the performance of the practice in the helping profession. It also offers an application through practical demonstrations. The area of youth work is frequent in the non-profit sector. Many diverse activities and projects are being developed based on the basic concept of empowerment. Their aim is to involve young people as much as possible in public life. In addition, with a specific focus on those young people who are struggling with some form of disadvantage.

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Rodina ako priestor sociálnej práce

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Magdaléna Hovanová

The university textbook offers a view of the family in social contexts. It deals with the basic characteristics of the family, the life cycle of the family from the choice of partner, through the arrival of children in the family to the end of the family. During its duration, the family performs various functions. A functional family is ideal for a harmonious relationship between partners and a suitable environment for raising children. However, a number of factors enter the life of the family, which directly or indirectly affect the performance of these functions and can cause various disorders. It is here that the task of social work is to offer help to families to cope with their big and small problems. A specific feature of social work is the focus on the whole and a comprehensive assessment of the family, where it is necessary to take into account both the client's point of view and the aspect of the environment in which he lives and which constantly affects him. Therefore, the university textbook offers procedures for social work with the family, from the assessment of the life situation, through the plan of work with the family to social intervention. The university textbook is intended for students of social work, who have the opportunity to practice complex issues within the assessment of the case through the enclosed case studies.

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Prvý dotyk so slobodou. Sprítomňovanie...

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Mikuláš Jančura • Alžbeta Śnieżko   

Z hľadiska najnovších dejín Slovenska (a Československa) možno za jeden z najzásadnejších medzníkov považovať udalosti z novembra 1989 známe ako Nežná revolúcia. Jej širšie kontextuálne východiská, priebeh, ako aj dopady mali okrem politickej a hospodárskej roviny aj výraznú kultúrno-spoločenskú hĺbku a dosah. Na tomto základe možno o Nežnej revolúcii uvažovať aj ako o medzníku, ktorý zásadne ovplyvnil historické vedomie obyvateľstva, ktoré má multigeneračný presah až do súčasnosti. V súvislosti s 30. výročím Nežnej revolúcie, ktoré si spoločnosť v Čechách a na Slovensku pripomenula v roku 2019, bola pod záštitou Košického samosprávneho kraja v spolupráci s Verejnou knižnicou Jána Bocatia v Košiciach, Univerzitou Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach, Ústavom pamäti národa a Rozhlasom a televíziou Slovenska v priestoroch Verejnej knižnice Jána Bocatia usporiadaná interaktívna výstava s názvom Prvý dotyk so slobodou. Výstava, okrem pripomenutia si novembrových udalostí z roka 1989, akcentovala práve uvedený kultúrno-spoločenský rozmer a dosah, pričom sa konceptuálne zamerala na rozvíjanie piatich dimenzií historického vedomia. Je to koncept rozvíjaný hlavne v oblasti súčasnej predmetovej didaktiky dejepisu, pričom ide o dimenzie identity, historicity, pamäti, vedomia o priestore a vedomia o čase. Na tomto základe bol na Katedre histórie Filozofickej fakulty UPJŠ v Košiciach realizovaný projekt, ktorého výstupom je aj predkladaný učebný text fungujúci ako organická súčasť rovnomenného edukačno-historického webového portálu. Východiskom textu je teoreticko-metodologická štúdia o dimenziách historického vedomia a miesta tohto konceptu v súčasnej predmetovej didaktike dejepisu, ako aj stať venovaná jej aplikácii na príklade koncipovania vyššie priblíženej výstavy. Jeho súčasťou je zasadenie revolučných udalostí z novembra 1989 do časovo, faktograficky aj tematicky širokého kontextu vzťahov medzi východným a západným blokom, studenou vojnou, ako aj kreovania a vnútorného fungovania komunistického režimu na Slovensku. Osobitná pozornosť je venovaná súvislostiam, ktoré viedli k Nežnej revolúcii a jej vlastnému priebehu, ústiacemu do pádu komunistického režimu a slobodným, demokratickým voľbám. Osobitnou súčasťou textu je náčrt praktických učebných figúr k problematike.

V dôsledku obsiahlosti témy si predkladaný text nekladie nárok na postulát vedeckej práce a ani na úplné vyčerpanie predmetnej problematiky. Ide o prehľadový a rámcový vstup do kľúčových udalostí a súvislostí sprevádzajúcich obdobie neslobody na Slovensku (a v Československu) vyúsťujúce do pádu komunistického režimu. Cieľom výstupov tohto projektu je prostredníctvom viacvrstevného študijného materiálu s interaktívnymi a multimediálnymi prvkami evokovať v cieľových skupinách žiakov základných a študentov stredných a vysokých škôl diskusiu o jednej z kľúčových tém moderných dejín Slovenska. Taktiež je to snaha podporiť výučbu tejto problematiky primárne na úrovni základných a stredných škôl. Využiteľnosť si môže nájsť aj ako podporný materiál pre študentov humanitných disciplín vysokých škôl. Osobitnou pridanou hodnotou je voľná aplikovatelnosť konceptu rozvíjania dimenzií historického vedomia pri výučbe rozličných historických tém.

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2020: Začiatok dekády zmien?

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Katarína DuffekováBenita FeketeováKatarína Lörincová (eds.)

The presented work is a collection of contributions from the 9th International Online Scientific Conference of Students and Young Scientists, organized on December 4, 2020 by the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, the Faculty of Social Sciences UCM in Trnava and the OZ Res Publica.

The aim of the publication is to provide a platform to discuss important issues which could influence the course of events in next decade in Slovakia, Europe and world.

The publication consists of more than twenty articles, which are primarily in Slovak but also in English. The contributions deal with both domestic and foreign policy with focus on the third decade of the 21st century.

In addition to geopolitical issues, the contributions also cover migration, regional integration, populism and nationalism, the influence of the media and social networks in the political sphere and also the development of liberal democracy. The authors also address issues of municipal policy, the electoral system and the referendum.

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Sociálne inštitúcie a sociálne organizácie

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Dušan Šlosár

The monograph Social Institutions and Social Organizations analyzes the issues of society, spheres of society, models of social coexistence, social system, social institutions and social organizations that arise within individual social institutions.From social institutions, the monograph focuses on culture, religion, education, politics, health and economics.Individual social institutions are analyzed from several sociological perspectives, which allows the creation of a broader view of the analyzed issues.

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Marketing a fundraising mimovládnych...

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Katarína Šiňanská

For a non-governmental organization to be successful, it must focus, among other things, on its main goal of spreading its vision and mission to another area. It can achieve success by increasing its visibility and raising awareness about its activities in society, sending a clear message, and maintaining transparency. The monograph deals with specific areas in which non-profit NGOs are active, i.e. marketing and fundraising. Both these areas are of key importance for the NGO’s success, therefore they require particular attention. It is well known that NGOs lack proper support in Slovakia and their funding is insufficient given the demand for their services. NGOs therefore search for multiple sources of funding and use marketing as a tool. The monograph explains the importance of NGOs in the non-profit sector and justifies the tools they employ when navigating the commercial space.

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Vybrané kapitoly z epistemológie (v kontexte...

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Štefan Jusko

Vybrané kapitoly z epistemológie sú dielom viacročnej bádateľskej práce autora a tiež istým zúročením požiadaviek z pedagogickej praxe tohto predmetu. Kapitoly v tejto syntetizujúcej podobe publikované ešte neboli a som presvedčený, že práve v tejto podobe môžu nadobudnúť vyššiu hodnotu a väčší reálny dosah na našich študentov filozofie.

Jednotlivé kapitoly sú zamerané na problém poznania v súčasnosti, predovšetkým na problém kritiky metafyziky a na otázky kreovania postmetafyzického myslenia. Nie je žiadnou náhodou, že spoločným menovateľom predložených textov je F. Nietzsche, filozof, ktorý zásadným spôsobom ovplyvnil a naďalej ovplyvňuje terajšie filozofické diskusie a myšlienkové pohyby.

Kapitoly sú písané tak, aby viedli našich študentov či iných čitateľov k premýšľaniu, teda ku kritickému mysleniu, k osobnému rastu a k odbornej samostatnosti.

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Vybrané kapitoly z axiológie (v kontexte...

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Štefan Jusko

Vybrané kapitoly z axiológie sú dielom viacročnej bádateľskej práce autora a tiež istým zúročením požiadaviek z pedagogickej praxe tohto predmetu. Kapitoly v tejto syntetizujúcej podobe publikované ešte neboli a som pre-svedčený, že práve v tejto podobe môžu nadobudnúť vyššiu hodnotu a väčší reálny dosah na našich študentov filozofie.
Jednotlivé kapitoly sú zamerané na problém rozpadu tradičných hodnôt, ústiaci často až do nihilizmu a straty zmyslu ľudského bytia. Nie je náhodou, že spoločným menovateľom predložených textov je F. Nietzsche, filozof, ktorý prvý vyzval k prehodnoteniu všetkých hodnôt, ale aj F. Dostojevskij, ruský filozofujúci spisovateľ, ktorý sa na problém nihilizmu, na problém zničotenia hodnôt pozerá inak.
Cieľom predmetných textov je doslova až provokatívne osloviť našich študentov tak, aby otázky spojené so zmyslom vlastnej existencie riešili samostatne a kreatívne, lebo, ako som presvedčený, naša doba je veľkou výzvou k novým, originálnym myšlienkam, k axiologickým súdom, ktoré vždy predchádzali tým kognitívnym.
Do akej miery sa podarilo moje zámery a ciele naplniť, nechávam na čitateľovi.

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Slovenčina pre prekladateľov a tlmočníkov

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Renáta Gregová

This textbook is designated for the students of translation and interpreting study programmes. The increase of linguistic competence in foreign language, but also in mother tongue is an inevitable part of the preparation of translators and interpreters. The low linguistic competence is often one of the reasons of the unsatisfactory quality of translation. The main aim of this book is to provide the material for the consolidation of linguistic terminology and for the improvement of oral and written utterances in the Slovak language. Consequently, the textbook encompasses the theoretical and the practical part. The theoretical part summarizes the basic knowledge of language levels. In the practical part, there is the brief description of the selected orthoepic, morphological, syntactic, lexical and stylistic norms of the standard Slovak with the reference to the relevant literature offering deeper analysis of the given problem. Then practical exercises verifying the mastering of linguistic norms follow. At the end of the book, there is the little Slovak-English dictionary of the selected linguistic terms that may help students in their study of the English linguistics.

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G. W. Leibniz - filozofia raného a stredného...

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Martin Škára

The presented university textbook is a reaction to two fundamental shortcomings. The first one is the absence of a similar, if not equivalent, textbook in the Slovak university environment. The second shortcoming is the mistake that Leibniz's philosophy is a system called monadology. The presented textbook corrects this mistake and at the same time fills the gap of the absence of this kind of textbook with a Leibniz subject. For the above reasons, the presented textbook brings a new perspective on the philosophy of G. W. Leibniz, especially in the period of early philosophical beginnings with an overlap into the so-called Paris period and the De summa rerum period up to the first philosophical doctrinal formulation expressed in the Discours de métaphysique (Winter 1685-1686). The textbook is conceived as a selection of sections of source texts translated by the author of the textbook from French and partly from Latin and equipped with comments accessible to the target audience. It is therefore the author's wish that this textbook not only serve as a form of correction for the misinterpretation of Leibniz's philosophy, but as an inspiring text that will introduce the reader to the world of Leibniz's philosophy in its undistorted light.

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Betriebswirtschaft für Übersetzer. Lehr- und...

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Blanka Jenčíková, Ulrika Strömplová

Text book Betriebswirtschaft für Übersetzer. Lehr- und Übungsbuch is primarily intended for students of translation and interpreting who speak German at least at level B1 of the European Framework of Reference for Languages. The aim is to convey basic knowledge about business and entrepreneurship, to build a basic terminology database, to consolidate selected grammatical phenomena, and to develop translation procedures and strategies. The thematic areas were selected with regard to common translation and interpretation practice.

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ANGLIČTINA V AKADEMICKOM PROSTREDÍ...

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Zuzana KolaříkováHelena PetruňováRenáta Timková

The publication contributes to an active acquisition and development of language skills in the area of academic English. Individual lessons include tasks in which the user will find a lot of useful vocabulary in the form of collocations, phrases and sentences which can be applied in practice. The tasks are focused on the area of English pronunciation, grammar, word formation, vocabulary, improving communicative competence in written and verbal communication, improvement of professional skills of presentation, academic writing, etc. The publication provides space for complementing and creating own database of vocabulary (topic pages).

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Data-based prevention of substance use among...

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Oľga OrosováMarcela ŠtefaňákováMária BačíkováBeáta GajdošováAnna Janovská

The research monograph is focused on studying the effectiveness of the Unplugged prevention program conducted at primary schools across Slovakia. Using two large datasets with repeated measures, the monograph contributes to research knowledge about substance use prevention. The authors studied protective and risk factors, developmental trends of smoking and alcohol consumption as well as the effectiveness of the Unplugged prevention program – its effect on psychological and behavioural indicators of health-related behaviour. Considering the complexity of the analyses on two datasets with 5 waves of data, each chapter is presented as a separate research study. The findings serve as a basis for recommendations for parents and teachers and also for school management at primary schools that support effective school policy aimed at the prevention and promotion of the health in schoolchildren.

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ANGLIČTINA V AKADEMICKOM PROSTREDÍ

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Zuzana KolaříkováHelena PetruňováRenáta Timková

English in the Academic Environment is intended primarily for those interested in improving their academic English and is primarily designed to fulfill the needs of university students and teachers who use English in their studies, in their work activities, and in their communication with foreign colleagues and professionals. The publication offers selected phrases and sentence structures from the field of academic English, gives practical examples of the use of nominal, verbal and prepositional phrases, free and established collocations, idiomatic expressions, including translations of some selected phrases. It also highlights some common mistakes in the use of English in an academic environment, which are a manifestation of incorrect or insufficiently acquired linguistic resources and, last but not least, a consequence of the linguistic influence of Slovak.

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Local Attitudes to Global Issues. A2...

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Adriana Saboviková

The monograph deals with the post-millennial media discourse in the UK and aims to popularize the currently used methodological framework in the form of a case study. The theoretical basis is provided by the introductory chapters, which deal with the topic of migration and newspaper discourse in the UK. The methodological framework represents an increasingly popular combination of corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis, which is introduced not only theoretically but also practically used in the presented case study. The case study compares the language used in the British newspapers before and after the lifting of labor market restrictions in the UK for Bulgarians and Romanians, specifically in 2013 and 2014. The research is based on the identification of special language patterns used in the compiled corpus to characterize Bulgarians and Romanians, specifically paying attention to nouns, verbs and numerals. By doing such research, scholars can identify the role of media discourse in depicting social reality.

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On the border of East and West: Selected...

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Peter Borza

Eastern Christianity, represented in Slovakia by the Greek Catholic and Orthodox Churches, has influenced the development of Slovak society over the centuries. Both the common history and the coexistence of the two churches in one geographical area have brought diverse experiences that both churches keep in mind. The university textbook, which deals with their history, contains basic materials for study and focuses on important milestones in their history. It contains general information about the origin of Eastern Christianity and presents in chronological order knowledge of the history of the churches that represent it in Slovakia from the 9th to the 21st century.

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ON THE REPRESENTATION OF AN INTERNATIONAL EVENT...

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Karin Sabolíková

The monograph provides a brief insight into the theory of news structures in the press and, consequently, the theoretical framework of critical discourse analysis is applied in an examination of the structures of news. Critical discourse analysis following the theory and methodology of Teun van Dijk is used to analyse the representation of an industrial dispute, the Miners’ Strike of 1984-1985 in the UK, in the Czechoslovak newspaper Pravda. The aim of the monograph is to examine the ways in which a single news item dealing with an international event was presented in a national newspaper based on its ideological perspective. The presented analysis does not cover all possible aspects of van Dijk’s approach of critical discourse analysis. A variety of issues remains to be explored in order to develop a richer, more complex analysis of the text structures. The monograph also intends to demonstrate that critical discourse analysis can complement more qualitatively the traditional method of quantitative content analysis.

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Developing Academic English in Speaking and...

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Július RozenfeldSlávka Tomaščíková

The academic textbook entitled “Developing Academic English in Speaking and Writing responds to the need identified by the authors in their own teaching practice to integrate the enhancement of the academic skills of speaking and writing into a single coherent approach. Using complex methodologies of academic speaking and academic writing, the authors offer practical guidelines on how to broaden students’ knowledge of the discourse of Academic English and how to improve their academic competencies and productive language skills in speaking and writing in English. The textbook is designed for university students of English philology, students of literary and cultural studies focusing on Anglophone areas, students of English translation and interpretation study programmes, but also for students who study in English and who are expected to engage in scientific inquiry, document their research in Bachelor and Master theses or in doctoral dissertations written in English, and to present their work to their academic community.

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Basic Concepts of Morphology I.

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Renáta Panocová

The textbook Basic Concepts of Morphology is an introduction to morphology intended for undergraduate students of British and American Studies and students of English (and French/German) for European Institutions and Economy and other philology studies in Slovakia. The textbook gradually guides students from key terms to concepts and from there to theoretically more challenging phenomena. The textbook is primarily for Slovak students of English, which explains that the majority of the examples presented are English. As the textbook progresses, data from Slovak, German, French, Hungarian and sometimes from slightly more exotic languages are given. It is expected that such an approach will prepare students for carrying out morphological analysis independently.

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