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Circus elements as transcendental tools in film
Popov, Dimitar ; ANGIOLILLO, Mary Carmel (advisor) ; BERNARD, Jan (referee)
From the very beginning, film announced its duality: the style of the documentary works of the film pioneers - the Lumi?re brothers, stood in
opposition to the illusionistic experiments of Georges Méli?s. As film
language developed, it became clear that film is a mimetic art in a sense
that it possesses the quality of capturing reality itself, which was one of
the reasons why so many people were obsessed by the silver screen. At the
same time the audience was equally overwhelmed by the modification of the
reality previously captured, into a deeper, less profane meaning. These
subtile modifications (misrepresentations) of reality in film, are a
prerequisite for conveying ideas that enrich the narrative and provoke the
audience. Transcendence is immanent to film, and film authors base their
personal style, their own credo, on experimenting, exploring, balancing
within and appreciating this quality. A bundle of tools had been invented
for this purpose, from composition of shapes to combination of colors, from
narrative to editing techniques. A complete and precise list would be hard
to deliver.
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Automatic Alignment of Tectogrammatical Trees from Czech-English Parallel Corpus
Mareček, David ; Bojar, Ondřej (referee) ; Žabokrtský, Zdeněk (advisor)
The goal of this thesis is to implement and evaluate a software tool for automatic alignment of Czech and English tectogrammatical trees. The task is to find correspondent nodes between two trees that represent an English sentence and its Czech translation. Great amount of aligned trees acquired from parallel corpora can be used for training transfer models for machine translation systems. It is also useful for linguists in studying translation equivalents in two languages. In this thesis there is also described word alignment annotation process. The manual word alignment was necessary for evaluation of the aligner. The results of our experiments show that shifting the alignment task from the word layer to the tectogrammatical layer both (a) increases the inter-annotator agreement on the task and (b) allows to construct a feature-based algorithm which uses sentence structure and which outperforms the GIZA++ aligner in terms of f-measure on aligned tectogrammatical node pairs. This is probably caused by the fact that tectogrammatical representations of Czech and English sentences are much closer compared to the distance of their surface shapes.
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Comparison of 3D objects in JAVA language
Zapletal, Tomáš ; Smékal, Zdeněk (referee) ; Šmirg, Ondřej (advisor)
The main aim of the thesis is loading of 3D models in different file formats and its displaying, creating of slices from 3D models and vice versa making 3D models from slices, quantify inaccuracy of anti-aliasing and other formatting and investigate similarity of original and edited models. Everything in Java programming language and its extensions for 3D object tasks. Thesis builds on earlier project „3D shape from MRI“.
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Attitudes to language in the prescriptive grammars in the Age of Reason
Grosser, David ; Tichý, Ondřej (advisor) ; Čermák, Jan (referee)
This thesis concerns itself with the formation of the attitudes to language in the course of the standardization of the English language in the eighteenth century. It is the aim of this thesis to show that the rise of the prescriptive grammars was caused by certain ideological presumptions about the nature of language and by certain social processes and that the understanding of the ideological and historical background is crucial for the interpretation of these grammars. The first chapter discusses the proposals for the English academy. It is shown that these proposals presented and propagated the ideas that formed the basis of the prescriptive attitude to language and that they, therefore, represent the essential prelude for the flowering of the prescriptive ideology in the later decades of the eighteenth century. The second chapter deals with the consequences of the effort of the strong rising middle classes for the social selfidentification. It is shown that language played an important role in this process and that the desire of reaching the standard of the upper classes caused an unprecedented demand after the language codification and influenced its shape. In the last chapter, the nature of the norm of the prescriptive grammars is examined and it is argued that it was based on the usage of the upper...
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The symbol and the importance of animals in the Latin-American fable with regard to pre-hispanic tradition
Žaloudková, Veronika ; Housková, Anna (advisor) ; Sánchez Fernández, Juan Antonio (referee)
The content of this Bachelor's thesis called The symbol and the importance of animals in the Latin-American fable with regard to pre-hispanic tradition is focused on the definition of the concept of fable as a literary genre, its form, function, scale and language by which it is characterized. It's further defined and compared with other genres it could be confused with and whose development it had an influence on. The probable origin and presence in ancient Greek and Roman literature is also mentioned. This part of the work is focused on the most important ancient authors like Aesop, Phaedrus and Babrios. The European tradition continues with fables of La Fontaine and as with the previous authors, the work evaluates his style and also focuses on the life story of the writer. As a rarity the mini fable by Karel Čapek is mentioned. The specifics of fables in the Latin-American region are described further. This thesis defines these as an individual literary genre and provides description of the formation of fable in this region. Among other things this work stresses the importance of typing, which is very important for the Latin-American fable, becuse the authors intended to shape their stories into unique local style, therefore it was necessary to replace the European names of the animals with local...
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Czech Language in the Crimea
Wildová, Zuzana ; Janovec, Ladislav (advisor) ; Hájková, Eva (referee)
The text deals with the current state of the language of the Czech minority in Crimea. Based on field research, it describes phenomena and changes that occurred in the language of Crimean Czechs that were caused by the influences of the foreign language and culture environment. Main focus of the text is phonetics, i.e. the way how speakers are affected by the Russian pronunciation standards. The text contains historical and cultural context relevant to the departure of Czechs to Crimea and the shape of the Czech minority nowadays. Individual chapters are dedicated to specific phenomena: deviations in the pronunciation of vocals in first syllables of words, changes in the pronunciation of the consonant [j], labialization in pronunciation of consonant [v], changes in the pronunciation of loanwords, pronunciation of consonants [ ] and [ ] in Czech words, pronunciation of toponyms, prosthesis and elimination of speech sounds from the beginning of words, deviations in the pronunciation of speech sounds from the middle of words, vocalization of prepositions and influences of Russian language standards on the use of their vocalized form.
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Kindergarten in Pustiměř
Trněný, Jan ; Párová,, Jitka (referee) ; Rusinová, Marie (advisor)
This diploma thesis „Kindergarten in Pustiměř“ is processed in the form design documentation for the construction. The building is situated in west part village Pustiměř on the slightly sloping land. Horizontally building corresponds approximately L – shaped, where one site has a two floors and another site has one floor. It is a masonry building, without a basement and with a flat roof. The project will also include the parking lots and pavements. Kindergarten consists of three departments, each with capacity of 20 children. The building also has economy section, section lead and section for a speech therapy and classroom language.
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Authentic existence and the "American dream" in Dreiser's fiction
Černá, Pavlína ; Procházka, Martin (referee) ; Roraback, Erik Sherman (advisor)
If we ask ourselves what makes a nation, the most common answer would probably be the national attributes such as the same language, race, shared territory or history platform. But then how is it in the case of the United States of America? Its language, English, is originally a language from the British Isles, its population consists of many people of different races and cultural backgrounds. It would be quite problematic even to speak about some common past or a specific territory.1 So, what is it then that makes the United States of America? Harvard's Sacvan Bercovitch argues that this "nation is defined by the mythic word America"2 and for him "America is a myth."2 Taking the definition of myths, in the original meaning of the word they are "stories, usually concerning superhumans or gods, which are related to accompany or to explain religious beliefs: they originate far back in the culture of oral societies. A mythology is a system of mythical stories which, taken together, elaborate the religious or metaphysical beliefs of the society."3 Myths are important in functioning as building blocks of the nation, more precisely they "shape the way we see the world, how we think of ourselves, where we look for origins and purpose, including national origins and purpose." Finally, "every great culture has had a...
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Language School and English Kindergarten in Horní Heršpice
Vlček, Petr ; Blažek, Petr (referee) ; Fišarová, Zuzana (advisor)
The aim of diploma’s thesis is a design od school house, exactly language school and english kindergarten. It’s a new building, designed on a flat plot no.873/21 in cadastre unit Horni Herspice, in a Brno’suburb. The language school is intended to accommodate 41 students. Kindergarten is for education preschool children. Kindergarten is designed for total capacity of 40 children. The building was designed in a rectangular shape without cellar. It is a two-storey masonry system. Both parts of the building were designed so that students and children do not meet. A schoolmaster office is located on the second floor. The building was designed from sand-lime bricks KM Beta. The thermal insulation is made from external thermal insulation composite systems ETICS, floor structure is from ceramic-concrete precast floor slabs. The major part of the flat roof structure is double-layered while the rest is a green single-layer construction.
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