cultivated speech production, dialect, speech pattern, pronunciation, students of teaching profession, TV news reporters, drama actors

Text představuje výsledky zkoumání zvukové kultury mluvených projevů budoucích učitelů (studentů PdF OU), redaktorů televizního zpravodajství (ostravského studia České televize) a herců ostravské činohry.

The paper ?On sound level of contemporary Czech in Ostrava region? presents findings of speaking practice in the school, theatre and media environment in Ostrava region which is the area with frequent occurrence of sound dialectal elements in common everyday speech. The aim was to find out whether these dialectal elements appear in utterances of professional speakers - drama actors and TV news reporters, those speakers who should positively influence language culture of the Czech language. Overview of main deviations from standard pronunciation identified in speech of these professionals is completed with evaluation of diction of the students of teaching profession from the University of Ostrava who should become important speech models. All the findings represent results of the author?s long-lasting observation obtained by training the university students and by personal cooperation with drama actors of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre and news reporters of Czech Television Studio in Ostrava.