Category of gender in Czech language used by the Czech deaf

The main topic of the diploma thesis is the problem of nominal gender in written Czech language used by the Czech deaf. At the beginning the author focuses on the contrasts of the nominal gender usage in the Czech language and in the Czech Sign Language. In the Czech Sign Language the gramatical category of the nominal gender does not exist. The author also compares the processing of the nominal gender problems in three types of textbooks: in textbooks of the Czech language for primary schools (for the hearing population), for the deaf and for the foreigners learning the Czech language. The most convenient for the deaf are the books elaborated on the similar principle as the textbooks for the foreigners and the CD-ROMs containing the Czech Sign Language. The next part of the diploma thesis is dedicated to the questionnaires analysis. The questionnaires are focused on the nominal gender knowledge and on the creating of the correct forms of gender endings of the adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs in connection with the nouns; some questions were for an informative purpose focused also on inflection. The questionnaires were filled in by hearing informants aged from 11 to 12 and the deaf adult informants. The hearing informants (1,4 % wrong) were more successful in the questionnaires than the deaf (28,9 %..