The article analyses election party propaganda in the Czech Social Democratic Women's Newspaper before the municipal elections in June 1919. It aims to describe the communication strategies employed to mobilize readers, the normative representations of women and womenVs political activity presented to the reader, as well as the negative images of class adversaries. It focuses mainly on specifically gendered ways of appealing to voters and strengthening their solidarity with the working class. The paper understands party propaganda as a means to gain insight into the discourxe on women and their political participation in the new Czechoslovak Republic. and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou
This review article focuses on two aspects of Lévi-Strauss’ ex change theory: temporal dimension and gender. First, we examine its diachronic dimension to argue that Lévi-Strauss’ exchange theory is far from being static. Its primary interest is evolutionary, regardless of how much Lévi-Strauss distances himself from evolutionism of the 19th century as a paradigm. His analyses of kinship that attempt to identify elementary structures are meant to shed light on the origins of human culture. Although Lévi-Strauss uses different methodology than other scholars interested in socio-cultural evolution, his treatment of the term homology, discussions of primatology and origins of culture suggest his deep interest in long-term process. Second, we examine the critiques of Lévi-Strauss’ analytical treatment of women as passive objects of exchange among men. Through the discussion of feminine agency, personhood, sexuality, and other forms of exchange of human beings, we argue that Lévi-Strauss’ exchange of women has to be understood in its historical context. He grants only limited agency to women but his approach is definitely not based on commodification of women. In contrast, the relational nature of persons as signs refutes such logic. We conclude that Lévi-Strauss is still a source of inspiration for anthropology regardless of the decades of post-structuralist criticism. and Daniel Sosna, Jitka Kotalová.
This article seeks to contribute to the discussion about literary images of fatherhood in contemporary Czech and Polish prose. It focuses on analysing the specific literary spaces that have emerged alongside a new type of literary character, namely, ‘new fathers’, who give up their professional activities to stay home and look after babies. A comparative analysis of two novels - Petr Šabach’s Putování mořského koně (The Pilgrimage of a Sea Horse) and Marek Kochan’s Plac zabaw (The Playground) - presents the similarities in the structures of their literary space and in the way masculinity is contextualised in the space of the playground and the home. The article sets the analysis against the backdrop of social changes affecting parenting and fatherhood in Poland and the Czech Republic in recent decades., Marcin Filipowicz., and Obsahuje bibliografii
Document-level testsuite for evaluation of gender translation consistency.
Our Document-Level test set consists of selected English documents from the WMT21 newstest annotated with gender information. Czech unnanotated references are also added for convenience.
We semi-automatically annotated person names and pronouns to identify the gender of these elements as well as coreferences.
Our proposed annotation consists of three elements: (1) an ID, (2) an element class, and (3) gender.
The ID identifies a person's name and its occurrences (name and pronouns).
The element class identifies whether the tag refers to a name or a pronoun.
Finally, the gender information defines whether the element is masculine or feminine.
We performed a series of NLP techniques to automatically identify person names and coreferences.
This initial process resulted in a set containing 45 documents to be manually annotated.
Thus, we started a manual annotation of these documents to make sure they are correctly tagged.
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