The Development of Written English in British and American Qualities from the 20th Century to the Present/Vývoj psané angličtiny v britském a americkém seriózním tisku od 20. století po současnost

This diploma thesis deals with the discourse analysis of written English in British and American broadsheets. Since the journalistic style and linguistic means have always been a matter of change, the goal of this thesis is to define the development of English language in the British and American quality newspapers during a particular period of time, more precisely, from the 20th century to the present. The author of the thesis will focus herself on the character of the journalistic style, the means typically used within journalism, further she will describe the notion 'Broadsheet' and finally she will consider the linguistic differences between British and American English in this particular press media. The analytical part of the diploma thesis is dedicated to the study of four individual corpuses of British and American qualities articles. These articles were taken from the front pages only; six are from the 20th century and another six from the broadsheets published in 21st century