Acceptability of the Authorial Plural and the Singular Among Grammar School Students and the Competition of These Forms in Contemporary Qualification Theses

The thesis focuses on the acceptability of the authorial plural and the authorial singular among grammar school students and the competition between these forms in contemporary qualification theses. The aims of the thesis are to determine how grammar schools students perceive the use of the authorial plural compared to the authorial singular, and to verify the competition between these ways of authorial self-presentation in contemporary qualification theses in the field of Czech-studies and also theses from other fields. The thesis is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part deals with the description of the first- person plural form, the transposition of morphological categories, including the term authorial plural, and the concept of authorial singular. Last but not least, professional texts, previous empirical research on the authorial plural in Czech academic communication and the presentation of the authorial plural in textbooks and curriculum overviews for secondary schools are presented. This is followed by a practical part containing two surveys - a survey of the acceptability of the authorial plural and singular among 150 students of the Gymnázium Havlíčkův Brod and a survey of types of authorial perspective in 150 final qualification theses from the Faculty of...