Czech national language, literary Czech, spoken Czech, commonly spoken Czech, Common Czech, Czech language situation, the evaluation of literary Czech

Artykuł nawiązuje do dyskusji językoznawców przebiegającej od lat na łamach czeskich pism lingwistycznych wynikami badań nad stosunkiem Czechów do własnego języka literackiego, prowadzonymi w latach 2009-2010 w ramach projektu GA ČR.

The goal of the present article is to compare the opinions about literary Czech of linguists (specialists in the Czech anguage) with the views of general public (common language users). These opinions are based on research of the attitudes of Czech people towards their literary language that was conducted in 2010 and included the responses of more than 3000 people from all regions of the Czech Republic. At the beginning of the article there are presented and defined basic idioms of the Czech national language: literary Czech together with the spoken varieties, Common Czech - dominant Czech supradialect, the most powerful Czech non-standard form and commonly spoken (colloquial) Czech. The practical part draws conclusions from a limited range of the responses to the questionnaire, such as, in which communication situations should literary Czech be used and what speakers.