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> Christou Anna, Mgr., Ph.D.

Christou Anna, Mgr., Ph.D.

Areas of Research Specialization

Lexicology and lexicography, Czech as a foreign/second language, phraseology, cultural and cognitive linguistics

Education

2019 – Ph.D. in Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

  • Dissertation: Žena v českém tradičním obrazu světa. Etnolingvistická studie (Woman in the Czech Traditional Worldview: An Ethnolinguistic Study)

2009 – M.A. in Czech Language and Literature, Teaching Czech for Secondary Schools, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

Work Experience

Since 2022 – Department of Language Studies, Czech Language Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences

  • Teaching Czech language courses for international researchers of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Since 2020 – Department of Contemporary Lexicology and Lexicography, Czech Language Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences

  • Member of the authorial team for the Academic Dictionary of Contemporary Czech

2008–2020 – Language School of the Capital City of Prague with Accreditation for State Language Examinations

  • Methodologist and teacher of Czech as a foreign language
    • Examiner for Czech state exams for foreigners and for the Czech language exam required for permanent residence

Publications

Monographs and Collective Publications

  • Christou, A. (2020): Žena v českém tradičním obrazu světa. Etnolingvistická studie. Praha: FF UK.
  • Collective of authors: Akademický slovník současné češtiny. Praha: Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR.
    • Member of the authorial team: entries starting with d-, ď- (2022), e- (2022), f- (2023), g- (2023), h- (2024), ch- (2024), i-, j- (2024)
    • Member of the main editorial board: entries starting with h- (2024)

Book Chapters, Articles

  • Cinkrautová, K. – Christou, A. – Tvrdá, K. (2025): The Concept of ZDRAVÍ [HEALTH] in the Czech Language. Ethnolinguistics. Issues in Language and Culture. (in press)
  • Cinkrautová, K. – Christou, A. – Tvrdá, K. (2025): Pojem ZDRAVÍ ve světle empirických dat. Bohemistyka 25: pp. 208–226. (in press)
  • Cinkrautová, K. – Christou, A. – Tvrdá, K. (2025): Jazykový obraz ZDRAVÍ v češtině. In: Leksykon aksjologiczny Słowian i ich sąsiadów 8: Zdrowie, eds. Alla Kozhinova, Stanisława Niebrzegowska-Bartmińska, Joanna Szadura, Lublin: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej. (in press)
  • Christou, A. – Tvrdá, K. (2025): Koncepce zpracování frazémů v Akademickém slovníku současné češtiny. Časopis pro moderní filologii. (in press)
  • Kopřivová, M. – Skoumalová, H. – Goláňová, H. – Hnátková, M. – Christou, A. – Jelínek, T. – Křivan, J. – Petkevič, V. – Vondřička, P. – Tvrdá, K. – Vítovec, P. (2025): Víceslovné lexikální entity v korpusu i lexikonu. Časopis pro moderní filologii. (in press)
  • Christou, A. – Táborská, K. (2022): The Cultural Concepts of “ZDRAVÍ” (“HEALTH”) and “NEMOC” (“ILLNESS”) in Czech Phraseology. Ethnolinguistics. Issues in Language and Culture, 34, Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS, pp. 303–318.
  • Christou, A. (2022): Strategies for choosing a good wife as told by Czech proverbs about marriage. In: I Międzynarodowy Kongres Etnolingwistyczny, tom II: Obraz świata i człowieka w kulturze ludowej i narodowej, Ewa Białek, Stanisława Niebrzegowska-Bartmińska, Joanna Szadura (eds.), Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS, pp. 201–210.
  • Christou, A. (2021): Já měla kalhoty a on měl sukni, proto mi nastali časové smutní! Ženský a mužský oděv jako symbol feminity a maskulinity v tradičním obrazu světa. In: I. Vaňková (ed.), Horizonty kognitivně-kulturní lingvistiky III. Praha: FF UK, pp. 115–121.
  • Christou, A. (2017): Kam čert nemůže, nastrčí bábu: stará žena v tradičním obrazu světa. In: V. Čurdová – R. Zbořilová (eds.), Horizonty kognitivně-kulturní lingvistiky: schémata a stereotypy v mluvených a znakových jazycích. Praha: FF UK, pp. 198–208.
  • Christou, A. (2016): Panna a baba. Tradiční obraz ženy v proměnách života. In: L. Saicová Římalová – I. Vaňková (eds.), Lidský život a každodennost v jazyce. Praha: FF UK, pp. 87–94.
  • Christou, A. (2012): Silné a slabé pohlaví? Stereotypy spojené s ženami a muži v češtině. In: A. Mikołajczuk, K. Waszakowa (eds.), Odkrywanie znaczeń w języku. Varšava: Wydawnictwa Uniwerstytetu Warszawskiego, pp. 200–209.
  • Christou, A. (2012): Tělesnost v českém jazykovém obrazu muže a ženy. In: I. Vaňková (ed.), Tělo, smysly, emoce v jazyce. Praha: FF UK, pp. 122–136.
  • Christou, A. (2012): Male and Female Work in Czech Linguistic Picture of the World. In: M. Abramovicz, J. Bartmiński, I. Bielińska-Gardziel (eds.), Wartości w językowo-kulturowym obrazie świata Słowian i ich sąsiadów. Lublin: UMCS, pp. 159–170.
  • Cvejnová, J. et al. (2012): Připravte se s námi na zkoušku z českého jazyka pro trvalý pobyt v ČR, Praha: NUV. (co-author)
  • Christou, A. – Kestřánková, M. (2010): Příprava na subtest Čtení s porozuměním Zkoušky z českého jazyka pro trvalý pobyt v ČR (úroveň A1 podle SERR). In: Čeština je cizí jazyk 2010. Úroveň A1 podle SERR [CD-ROM]. Plzeň: Katedra českého jazyka ZČU v Plzni, Unpaginated.

Reviews and Reports

  • Cinkrautová, K. – Christou, A. (2024): Tváří v tvář tragédii – redefinice hodnot?. Bohemistyka, 24(2), pp. 313–316.
  • Christou, A. (2023): Review of Jasňa Pacovská – Iva Nebeská – Alex Röhrich – Irena Vaňková: Škola jako místo radosti v myšlení o jazyce. Časopis pro moderní filologii, 105(2), pp. 299–302.
  • Christou, A. – Tvrdá, K. (2022): Review of František Čermák: Lexikální a sémantické aspekty přísloví. Jazykovědné aktuality, 59(3–4), pp. 95–100.
  • Christou, A. (2020): Nedělej Zagorku! Online přednáška Marie Kopřivové o zdrojích nových frazémů v češtině. Jazykovědné aktuality, year 57, vol. 3–4, pp. 154–156.
  • Christou – Provázková, K. (2011): Review of Kestřánková, M. – Šnaidaufová, G. – Kopicová, K. (2010): Čeština pro cizince. Úroveň B1. Brno: Computer Press. In: Studie z aplikované lingvistiky, 2011/1, pp. 131–133.
  • Christou, A. – Provázková, K. (2011): Review of Obraz člověka v jazyce. In: Studie z aplikované lingvistiky, 2011/2, pp. 94–98.

Projects and Grants

  • Since 2023: Participant in the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA ČR) grant project titled ‘Multi-word Units for Digital Education’, led by PhDr. Marie Kopřivová, Ph.D.
  • 2020, 2022: Collaborated with the National Pedagogical Institute of the Czech Republic (NPI) on developing instructional videos and audio recordings for examiners of the Czech Language Examination for Permanent Residence in the Czech Republic
  • 2019: National Institute for Education, member of the team preparing the Curriculum for Czech as a Second Language.
  • 2008–2010: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (MŠMT ČR), creation and development of the Czech Language Examination for Permanent Residence in the Czech Republic, team member.
  • 2008–2009: Department of Czech Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Czech Literature through the Eyes of Witnesses and in Documents, team member.

Membership in Scholarly and Specialized Societies

  • Antropolingva: Society for Cognitive-Cultural Linguistics, Ethnolinguistics, and Anthropolinguistics at the Czech Association for Language & Cognition, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
  • Asociace učitelů češtiny jako cizího jazyka (Association of Teachers of Czech as a Foreign Language) (AUČCJ)
  • Jazykovědné sdružení ČR (Linguistic Society of the Czech Republic)

Teaching

  • Since 2022: Department of Language Studies, Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences – Teaching Czech language courses for international researchers.
  • 2008–2020: Language School of the Capital City of Prague with Accreditation for State Language Examinations – Methodologist and teacher of Czech as a foreign language; Examiner for Czech state exams for foreigners and for the Czech language exam required for permanent residence.
  • 2012 – Institute of Czech Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
    • Courses: Czech Literature and Culture of the 19th Century, Oral and Written Expression, Vocabulary Development
  • 2011 – Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
    • Lexicology Seminar

Czech Language Examination Development

Since 2008: Development of test items for various standardized Czech language examinations, including: State Language Examinations in Czech for Foreigners, Czech Language Examination for Permanent Residence in the Czech Republic, Certified Czech Language Examination for Foreigners (CCE), State Maturita Examination in Czech Language for Deaf Students and others.

Selected lectures

  • 28 November 2024 – Obraz ženy v lidové písni (The Image of Women in Folk Songs), Seminar: Mezi jazykem a hudbou (Between Language and Music), Czech Linguistic Society, Prague, Czech Academy of Sciences
  • 17 April 2024 – Zdraví jako hodnota ve světle etnolingvistiky (k výzkumu v rámci EUROJOS) (Health as a Value in the Light of Ethnolinguistics – Research within the EUROJOS Project), Co-presented with K. Cinkrautová, Internal seminar, Department of Czech Studies for Foreigners and Communication with the Deaf, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
  • 24 May 2023 – Nemá nemoc jazyka a přece mluví. Metafory zdraví a nemoci v pohledu kognitivní lingvistiky (Illness Has No Language, Yet It Speaks: Metaphors of Health and Illness from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics), Co-presented with I. Vaňková, Lecture held at Brandýs nad Labem Castle
  • 9 July 2021 – Koně, ženu a flintu nikdy nepůjčuj: o ženách a zvířatech v perspektivě moderní etnolingvistiky (Never Lend Your Horse, Your Wife, or Your Rifle: On Women and Animals from the Perspective of Modern Ethnolinguistics), Co-presented with L. Šťastná, Šrámkova Sobotka – Festival of Czech Language, Speech, and Literature.
  • 5 March 2020 – Panna, žena a bába. O proměnách ženství v tradičním obrazu světa (Maiden, Woman, and Crone: Transformations of Womanhood in the Traditional Worldview), Lecture within the series “Word, Tradition, and Context” at the Ethnographic Museum of the National Museum, Prague.
  • 9 October 2019 – Tradiční obraz matky v češtině: jazyk, folklor, poezie (Perspektiva moderní etnolingvistiky) (The Traditional Image of the Mother in Czech: Language, Folklore, Poetry – A Modern Ethnolinguistic Perspective), Co-presented with I. Vaňková, Lecture organized by the Circle of Friends of the Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, Charles University.

Editorial and organizational activities

Editorial Activities

  • Since 2013: Proofreader for the Prague Spring International Music Festival catalogue.
  • Since 2010: Editor for the Archaion Kallos International Festival of Orthodox Music.
  • 2009: Contributed to the Pralex Lexical Database at the Department of Contemporary Lexicology and Lexicography, Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences.
  • 2006–2007: Editor of the cultural magazine ‘Literární novinky’ at the Institute of Czech Literature and Literary Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University.

Organizational Activities

  • 2021, 2023, 2025 – Dny kulturní lingvistiky (conference meetings), Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague

Popularization

  • Christou, A. (2021). The Linguistic Worldview Is Not Politically Correct [Interview by L. Lukešová]. Heroine, Issue 4, 9 June 2021, pp. 70–73.