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The study deals with the language used in classified ads on online auction websites. Based on a corpus compiled from Czech online advertising websites during autumn 2016 it describes both extrinsic and intrinsic textual criteria of this discourse in order to create a wholesome linguistic picture of the text type classified ad; furthermore, it compares the results with a similar study based on German classified ads (IMO 2012). The classifieds predominantly feature selling second-hand goods. So the study does not in...