This article presents a method for computer-assisted text analysis, which has been employed by the author in a number of studies. The inductive methodology is based on a frequency count analysis of the co-occurrence of words; and a visualization of the results of this text analysis in a two dimensional space. The main advantage of this text analysis technique is its potential for (a) exploring large amounts of textual data without any pre-coded or theoretically laden vocabularies or thesauri; and (b) the extraction of discursive patterns often only detectable in an a posteriori expert analysis. An example is used to demonstrate the use of this computer assisted text analysis method through an analysis of the transcripts of biographical interviews exploring life in Czech socialist society. The analysis presented uncovers both shared and distinctive discursive patterns found in the narratives of the interviewees who come from two distinct social groups., Martin Hájek., and Obsahuje bibliografii a bibliografické odkazy
Biografii jednoho z nejvýznačnějších českých básníků dvacátého století Vladimíra Holana (1905-1980) z pera francouzského bohemisty překladatele, profesora pařížské Sorbonny Xaviera Galmiche, vydanou v původním znění pod názvem Vladimír Holan, le bibliothécaire de Dieu: Prague 1905-1980 (Paris, Institut d’études slaves 2009), hodnotí recenzent jako inspirativní a zdařilou. Autor se vydal nejen cestou syntetizující analýzy jeho díla a podrobné interpretace některých jeho textů, ale i rekonstrukce kontinuity jeho básnické dráhy v historickém kontextu. Nosný pilíř propojující tyto dvě roviny přitom našel v rozboru žánrových proměn Holanovy tvorby. Jeho společnská role podle něj oscilovala mezi polohami „básníka revolty“ a „básníka na cestě za spásou“. Za interpretačně odvážné, ale podnětné a vyargumentované považuje recenzent Galmichovo hodnocení Holana jako velkého barokního básníka moderní doby, který sice po určitou sdílel komunistické přesvědčení své generace, svým duchovním založením ale tíhl ke katolicitě., The book under review, originally published as Vladimír Holan, le bibliothécaire de Dieu: Prague 1905-1980 (Paris, Institut d’études slaves, 2009), is a biography of one of the most notable Czech poets of the twentieth century, Vladimír Holan (1905-1980). The author, Xavier Galmiche, is a French scholar of Czech language and literature, a translator, and a professor at the Sorbonne. The publication, the reviewer argues, is an inspiring success. According to him, the author has set out not only to provide a comprehensive analysis of Holan’s works and an in-depth interpretation of some of his writing, as well as a reconstruction of the continuity of his career as a poet in the historical context. These two levels are supported by an analysis of the changing genres of Holan’s work. His social role, according to the reviewer, oscillated between being a ‘poet of revolt’ and a ‘poet on the road to salvation’. According to the reviewer, Galmiche’s assessment of Holan as a great Baroque poet of modern times, who for a while shared the Communist convictions of his generation but was eventually drawn by his spiritual disposition to Roman Catholicism, is bold but inspiring and well-argued., [autor recenze] Jiří Křesťan., and Obsahuje bibliografii