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In the article are analysed discussion sequences from internet forum of Faculty of Education, Charles University, Prague, which are oriented at solving problems with students'agenda, mainly enrolling students in the classes. There are described the politeness strategies chosen by students to fulfill their communicative objectives when they contact members of schedule planning committee. The students'utterances have features of oral speech and the communication is less formal than it is expected in institutional setting. There are transformations in pragmatic factors, e.g. smaller distance towards authorities and less asymmetry between interactants.

The topic of this article is the categorization in the Czech cultural and language context. I am presenting the results of the survey that I carried out among 1689 informants in 2008. The survey was oriented at mapping semantic prototypes in selected categories (domestic animal, means of transport, wild forest animal, furniture, fruit, vegetables, tree, and flower). The collected data were interpreted according to subjective factors, e.g. age and gender of the informants. The data were also quantified according to the frequency of answers.