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 Masaryk University) from 1977 to 1982. After a brief period teaching at a secondary school and a parental leave, she worked at the Dialectological Department of the Institute of the Czech Language of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Brno (1985–1991), where she participated in the preparation of the Czech Linguistic Atlas. In 1991 she joined the Department of Czech Language at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno, where she taught courses in lexicology, introduction to linguistic studies, and dialectology.

In 2006, she earned the academic title of docent (Associate Professor) at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University. From 2014 to 2022 she served as the head of the Department of Czech Language. She co-designed and supervised the study program Czech Language with a Specialization in Computational Linguistics, which later evolved into the current Computational Linguistics program.

Her research interests closely correspond to her teaching activities — she has long been engaged in the study of Czech dialects, vocabulary, and corpus linguistics. In 2000, she published her doctoral dissertation as a monograph titled Transferred Names of Plants in Czech Dialects. Zdeňka Hladká’s name is associated with the pioneering efforts of Czech corpus linguistics: under her supervision, both the first corpus of spoken Czech from the Moravian region (Brno Spoken Corpus) and a specialized corpus (Corpus of Private Correspondence) were compiled, both now part of the Czech National Corpus.

From the 1990s through the 2010s, she participated as co-author or co-editor in several comprehensive linguistic works published by the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University (A Practical Grammar of Czech, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech, New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech, and Chapters from the History of Czech Linguistic Bohemistics). In these publications, she contributed sections on lexicology, phraseology, and lexicography. At the turn of the millennium (1998–2003), together with Professor Petr Karlík, she organized five editions of the international conference Czech Language – Universals and Specifics.

Zdeňka Hladká is also active beyond Masaryk University. She has been a member of the Council of the Institute of the Czech Language of the Czech Academy of Sciences (2007–2016), a member of the editorial board of Naše řeč (since 2003), a member of the International Association of Teachers of Czech (2003–2024), and a member of the Terminological Commission for Primary and Secondary Schools (since 2002).

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