Advisory work

PhD supervision

Barbora Jurková: Possibilities of applying the von Neumann probe as a mechanistic model (started PhD in 2023), Palacký University in Olomouc

External reviewer for PhD thesis 

2025

• OHLSON Márcia: Blockchain no Jornalismo e nas Redes Sociais Digitais - uma leitura pragmaticista e semiótica, supervisor Vinicius Romanini, University of São Paulo
• ZENGIARO Nicola: Il continuum della vita: semiosi come risonanza ecosistemica, supervisor Francesco Mazzuchelli, University of Bologna

Supervised defended MA theses:

2026

• CHRÁPKOVÁ Kateřina: Comparative Semiotic Analysis of LGBT+ Narratives in Western and Asian Dramas, Palacký University in Olomouc
• CHOVANEC Jonáš: Use of classical music in marketing in the Czech Republic, Taiwan and PRC: a comparative study, Palacký University in Olomouc
• KUTIL Jan: The Role of Transparency, Trust and Agreement in UI/UX design: The Challenges and Possibilities of User Freedom, Charles University in Prague

2023

• DOSOUDILOVÁ, Tereza: Selected Topics from C. S. Peirce and Lady Victoria Welby's Correspondence: Annotated Translation and Analysis, Palacký University in Olomouc.
• FIEDLER, Jan: Detection of disinformation based on quantifiable text features, Palacký University in Olomouc.
• SLENČKOVÁ, Martina: What is hidden beyond words, Palacký University in Olomouc.

2022

• HOLICKÁ, Miriama: Semiotics of Gender - A Queer Reading of Gender as a Social Construct, Palacký University in Olomouc. 

2019

• PIVOŇKOVÁ Lenka: Complex Analysis of the TV Discussion Programme: Focus on the Politeness Theory, Palacký University in Olomouc

Supervised defended BA theses:

2026

• DOSTÁLOVÁ Michaela: Music as Opera Aperta: A Semiotic Analysis of The Black Parade Album, Palacký University in Olomouc
• CHODÚROVÁ Karin: Mapping the Sagittal Anatomical Plane in Orientational Conceptual Metaphors with Regard to Second Language Acquisition: Cross-linguistic Analysis of Left-Right Metaphors in English, Slovak and Dutch, Palacký University in Olomouc
• SÝKOROVÁ Eliška: Verbal Aspect from the Perspective of Linguistic Relativism, Charles University in Prague
• NAJMANOVÁ Alice: A Cognitive-Linguistic Analysis of Internet Memes from the 2025 Parliamentary Elections in the Czech Republic, Charles University in Prague
• ČERNOCH Pavel: The Role of the Symbolic Threshold in Language Evolution: A Reflection on Terrence W. Deacon's The Symbolic Species from the Perspective of Contemporary Semiotics and Biology, Charles University in Prague
• ZEITHAMLOVÁ Bára: Analysis of Semiotic Codes in Gender-Based Marketing of Hair Care Products: Visual and Verbal Product Differences and Their Reflection in Pricing, Charles University in Prague

2025

• FORMÁNKOVÁ, Anežka: Cognitive pragmatics of emotional expression in digital texts, Palacký University in Olomouc.
• LAPKIN, Ian: Comprehensive analysis of signed languages and their comparison to spoken languages, Palacký University in Olomouc.
• O'NEILL, Conor Brendon: TikTok Talk: A Corpus Investigation of Medical Speech Acts on TikTok, Palacký University in Olomouc.
• VAŠKOVÁ, Alexandra: Marketing semiotics and neuromarketing, Palacký University in Olomouc.
• DOSTÁLOVÁ, Michaela: Music as Opera Aperta: A Semiotic Analysis of The Black Parade Album, Palacký University in Olomouc.

2024

• GÖRDÜ, Kivanç: The Autonomy of the Symbolic: Cognitive Approaches to Ideology and the Unconscious, Palacký University in Olomouc.

2023

• PSOTKA, Tadeáš: Academic Semiosphere, Palacký University in Olomouc.

2021

• ISKANDEROVA, Olga: Feminitives in contemporary Czech and Russian language, Palacký University in Olomouc.

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