Současné možnosti a trendy popisu mluvené češtiny (se zaměřením na kolokvializaci a konverzacionalizaci)
The Contemporary Possibilities and Trends of the Description of Spoken Czech (Oriented on the Aspects of Colloquialisation and Conversationalisation)

Summary/Abstract: The attention is given to contemporary development of public discourse – in the direction to informality, intimate style, to everyday “casual”, or colloquial speech. It is not only the case of spoken discourse and colloquial usage but also of written conversation (of electronic mail, short text messages, discussions at chatrooms – Internet Relay Chat, etc.), and of genres like the interview (at TV, broadcast, and particularly in newspapers and journals). In this situation, the article attempts also at the description of the status of phatic function, of politeness and means of contact between interlocutors – i.e. of the second direction to “colloquialization”; and of the influence of this change at Czech variation, Czech “diglossia”. The question “In which situations is it appropriate to use Common (Bohemian) Czech?” gains new dimensions today; and I am sure that it is not only a problem of Czech but of the other Slavic languages as well (see the situation of “spoken form of Slovak”, Slovak “urban language”, “język potoczny” in Poland, etc.). Last but not least, the situation of our research is quite different today: we can investigate large corpora of data (of spoken texts as well) and new text types. We have a chance to bring together the approaches of grammar, functional stylistics, pragmatics of communication, sociolinguistics, or (critical) discourse analysis.

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