Vietnamese Immigrants in the Czech Republic and Their Image

The dissertation ?Vietnamese Immigrants in the Czech Republic and their medial image? deals with present intercultural current issues. Journalistic texts in tabloids and also in quality press give media depiction to Czech citizens about the effect of Vietnamese community living in the Czech Republic. The dissertation contains eight chapters. The first chapter deals with the history and the formation of Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic from the beginning till the present. The second chapter gives information about the independent mentality and culture of Vietnamese ethnic group including information about Vietnamese language. The third chapter deals with the world of the mass media primarily the printed media. It gives information about their functions and their influence on the recipients. The next chapter characterizes particular periodicals which are bases of this dissertation. The fifth chapter includes basic information about persuasion in journalism. Journalistic functional style would be nonsensical without it. It contains verbal and also non-verbal devices. The sixth chapter deals with analysis of thematic?contextual components of journalistic texts about Vietnamese in the Czech Republic. The seventh chapter focuses on analysis of titles of journalistic texts of Vietnamese immigrants in the Czech Republic. The final chapter of this dissertation addresses the most frequent persvazive verbal devices which are used when journalistic texts about the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic are being made. The aim of that analysis is to raise awareness about the complex verbal scene regarding the Vietnamese community which is presented in printed mass medias in the Czech Republic