doc. PhDr. Zdeňka Hladká, Dr.

Zdeňka Hladká studied Czech Language and History at the Faculty of Arts of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Brno (now the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University) from 1977 to 1982. After a short period teaching at a secondary school and a parental leave, she worked at the Dialectology Department of the Institute of the Czech Language of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Brno (1985–1991). In 1991, she joined the Department of the Czech Language at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno. There, she taught courses in lexicology, introduction to linguistics, and dialectology. She was appointed docent (associate professor) in 2006. From 2014 to 2022, she served as the head of the Department of the Czech Language at the Faculty of Arts, MU.

She contributed to the creation and coordination of the study programme Czech Language with a Specialization in Computational Linguistics at the Department of the Czech Language, which now continues as the degree programme Computational Linguistics.

Zdeňka Hladká’s research activity corresponds closely with her teaching interests — she has long focused on Czech dialects, vocabulary, and corpus linguistics. In 2000, her dissertation was published as a monograph (Transferred Names of Plants in Czech Dialects). Her name is associated with the pioneering phase of Czech corpus linguistics. Under her supervision, the first corpus of spoken Czech from the Moravian region (Brno Spoken Corpus) was compiled, followed by another specialized corpus (Corpus of Private Correspondence).

From the 1990s through the 2010s, she was a co-author or co-editor of several comprehensive linguistic works published by the Department of the Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, MU — including the Reference Grammar of Czech, the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech, the New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech, and Chapters from the History of Czech Linguistic Bohemistics. In these publications, she authored sections devoted to lexicology, phraseology, and lexicography. Around the turn of the millennium (1998–2003), she co-organized, together with Professor Petr Karlík, five international conferences titled Czech – Universals and Specifics.

Zdeňka Hladká is also well known outside Masaryk University. She has been a member of the Terminological Committee for Primary and Secondary Schools (since 2002), a member of the editorial board of the journal Naše řeč (since 2003), a member of the International Association of Teachers of Czech (since 2003), and a member of the Council of the Institute of the Czech Language of the Czech Academy of Sciences (2007–2016).

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