> Dvořáková Klára, Mgr., Ph.D.

Dvořáková Klára, Mgr., Ph.D.

née Prchlíková

Areas of research specialization

pragmalinguistics, conversation analysis, language consulting, gender-sensitive language

Education

2015–2024 Faculty of Arts, Charles University

  • Ph.D. degree in the Czech language
  • Dissertation: Calls to the Language Consulting Centre: An Analysis of Interaction Progress (supervisor Mgr. Martin Havlík, Ph.D.)

2012–2015 Faculty of Arts, Charles University

  • Master’s degree in the Czech language (specialisation study)
  • Thesis: Compliments in Informal Private Discourse (supervisor Eva Filippová, Ph.D.)

2009–2012 Faculty of Arts, Charles University

  • Bachelor’s degree in the Czech language and literature
  • Thesis: Nonverbal Communication of Men and Women (supervisor PhDr. Jasňa Pacovská, CSc.)

Work experience

2012–present

  • Research assistant at the Department of Language Cultivation
  • Czech Language Institute of CAS

2011–2012

  • Annotater  of the corpus SKRIPT2012
  • Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

Publications

Monographs and collective publications

  • MŽOURKOVÁ, H. – BENEŠ, M. (eds.), Kdo se zeptá, ten se dozví. Více než 250 odpovědí jazykové poradny. Praha: NLN, 2024, 368 p. [author of 36 texts]
  • DVOŘÁKOVÁ, K.: Občas se něco změní přece jenom. Jazyková změna. In: DUFEK, O. a kol.: Jazyková poradna, dobrý den. O češtině a jejích uživatelích. Praha: NLN, 2022, pp. 57–68.
  • DVOŘÁKOVÁ, K., DUFEK., O.: Úvod. In: DUFEK, O. a kol.: Jazyková poradna, dobrý den. O češtině a jejích uživatelích. Praha: NLN, 2022, pp. 7–25.
  • DVOŘÁKOVÁ, K. „Bylo by lepší to celé přestylizovat…“ Příspěvek ke stylistické problematice v jazykové poradně. In: JÍLKOVÁ L., MRÁZKOVÁ, K., ÖZÖRENCIK, H. (eds.): Jak je důležité míti styl. Pocta Janě Hoffmannové. Praha: NLN, 2020, pp. 430–442.
  • DVOŘÁKOVÁ, K. Ty jo, to seš dobrá! Jak se skládají komplimenty v češtině. Praha: Academia, 2017.

Journal and proceedings publications

Reviews and news

Grants

  • 2023–2026, 2020–2022 LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ – Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
    • Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic
    • (principal investigator: prof. RNDr. Jan Hajič, investigator: PhDr. Martin Prošek, Ph.D.)
  • 2023–2024 Tell me how to say it right! (TELMER)
    • European Commission – Erasmus+ Programme
    • (principal investigator: Institute of the Estonian Language, investigator: PhDr. Kamila Smejkalová, Ph.D.)
  • 2019–2022 Web-based Corrector of Spelling, Grammar and Typography for Czech
    • Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
    • (principal investigator: Mgr. Dana Hlaváčková, Ph.D., investigator: PhDr. Markéta Pravdová, Ph.D., MBA, investigator: doc. RNDr. Vladimír Petkevič, CSc.)
  • 2017–2019 Access to a Lingustically Structured Database of Enquiries from the Language Consulting Centre
    • Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic
    • (principal investigator: PhDr. Martin Prošek, Ph.D., investigator: doc. Ing. Luděk Müller, Ph.D.)
  • 2015–2016 Rozšíření a anotace korpusu banátské češtiny BANÁT (Expansion and Annotation of the Banat Czech Corpus BANÁT)
    • Faculty of Arts, Charles University – an internal grant
    • (principal investigator: Mgr. Karolína Vyskočilová)
  • 2013–2015 LINDAT/CLARIN Centre for Language Research Infrastructure in the Czech Republic
    • Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic
    • (principal investigator: prof. RNDr. Jan Hajič, Dr., investigator: doc. RNDr. Karel Oliva, Dr.)

Popularization activities (selected)

Popularization publications

  • 2020–present contributions to the section Zajímavé dotazy
  • DVOŘÁKOVÁ, K.: Jak to jen říct. Vogue, 2022, 10(45), pp. 116–119.
  • 2021–2022 language columns published  in the section Úvahy o jazyce in the journal Týdeník Rozhlas.
  • 2020 contributions to the CAS project Věda na doma.
  • PRAVDOVÁ, M. (ed.) Čeština nově od A do Ž. Praha: Academia a Lidové noviny, 2016. [author of 6 texts]
  • 2013–2016 22 language columns published in newspapers Literární noviny and literarky.cz.

Public lectures

  • November 4, 2021, City Library in Tábor: Jak funguje jazyková poradna?
  • 2021, online lecture about the Language Consulting Centre presented at several schools as part of the CAS project Pozvěte si vědce do výuky: Kdo se moc ptá, moc se dozví.
  • November 7, 2019, Pardubice Regional Library: O komplimentech v češtině.
  • October 22, 2018, Open Gate School: O komplimentech v češtině.
  • November 7, 2016, Grammar School in Soběslav: Osmdesát let s jazykovou poradnou.

Media appearances (available online)

Additional activities

  • 2021–present reviewing Czech language high school graduation and entrance tests for the Centre for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (Cermat)
  • 2015–2016, 2020–present answering telephone inquiries and creating written expert opinions at the Language Consulting Centre, Czech Language Institute of CAS
  • 2016 member of the organizing team for the conference100 let Naší řeči (Prague, January 10–11, 2017)
  • 2016 collaboration on the show ‘Tůdle nůdle’ for the internet television netchannel.cz