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Commented translation III
Klouda, Adam ; Kotásek, Miroslav (oponent) ; Krhutová, Milena (vedoucí práce)
Bachelor’s thesis “Electrotechnology – commented translation” aims at translating Czech scientific text into English language, which is used as a study material for students of Electrotechnology, and to convey comparative analysis of both the original and the translated text. The source text is divided into nine chapters from which several extracts were selected and analysed in terms of linguistics. Each of them is concerned with different area of electrical engineering and diverse variety of scientific terms is used. This bachelor’s thesis offers essential theory concerned with translation of scientific texts written in style of science and technology.
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E- and Smart-: Discourse of Selling, Promoting and Advertising Technology
Tichý, Martin ; Šťastná, Dagmar (oponent) ; Kotásek, Miroslav (vedoucí práce)
With a growing and often over-saturated market for digital technology many businesses face a challenge of retaining and acquiring customers. A successful marketing campaign, which has become a vital part of introducing new products to the market, can help achieve this goal. In this bachelor’s thesis relevant materials from different communication channels have been collected and further analyzed in terms of various linguistic elements used in advertising. The analyzed materials possess distinct language properties according to what is their desired function. On billboards, posters and online banners, where short, concise messages fulfill their function of advertising a certain product, long, structured blocks of text would fail. And in a similar fashion, usage of short “catch-phrases” in official documents would be considered unprofessional. This bachelor’s thesis aims to outline and describe some of the linguistic methods used in marketing by gathering data and analyzing it.
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Commented translation of a teaching material for electrical engineering
Halva, Ondřej ; Kotásek, Miroslav (oponent) ; Zmrzlá, Petra (vedoucí práce)
This bachelor thesis deals with the translation of a teaching material for electrical engineering with the aim of translating and analysing a technical text. The translated material will be then used for teaching in technical classes that focus on analog technology. The thesis has two parts. The practical part presents a chapter taken from the material and translated from Czech into English. The analytical part provides an analysis of the translated text along with examples. The analysis mainly focuses on the similarities and differences in conveying information between the original Czech text and English translation of the text.
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Language and discourse of Processed World
Urban, Michal ; Haupt, Jaromír (oponent) ; Kotásek, Miroslav (vedoucí práce)
The thesis deals with the history of computers, the spreading of computer technology and its influence on users, which provides basic background to the analysis of topics found in the Processed World magazine. The history of computers is generally described in individual generations, which allows us to imagine in which way the development of computers and technology progressed. The thesis deals also with the influence of computers on the general public and the spreading of computers into American households between the years 1990 and 2000 and it briefly outlines the situation today. Attention is given also to the often-neglected negative aspects of computer technologies that are presented in the magazine. The Processed World magazine, which was founded in 1981 by a group of young people from San Francisco, is based on frustration of office workers who wanted to create a form of entertainment, information and sympathy for people in the same situation. The thesis also deals with the illustrations and their meaning presented in this magazine. By analyzing specific texts, it also provides a certain example of how the articles of the Processed World look like.
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Commented Translation: Measurements in Electrotechnics and Audiotechnics
Šustrová, Pavlína ; Krhutová, Milena (oponent) ; Kotásek, Miroslav (vedoucí práce)
The concern of this thesis is a commented translation of an instructional text used in university courses Measurement in Electrical Engineering and Measurement in Audio Engineering. The translation was created for the use of future foreign students attending said courses. The commentary puts forth the reasoning behind the motivation to carry out the translation, views and theories applied during the translation process, encountered issues and their individual solutions, including specific examples, as well as a brief linguistic study of the text. In addition to the translation, this thesis describes the concept of glossaries that would accompany each set of instructions in the text. The final product of the translation is ready to be assessed to be an official study material.
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New technologies in art
Djordjevic, Ilija ; Kotásek, Miroslav (oponent) ; Smutný, Milan (vedoucí práce)
This thesis deals with an issue of new technologies in art. The thesis approaches the issue by dividing it in three parts: new technologies in art, new types of art and the effect of the internet on art. Each of these three parts are elaborated on by using at least one example from the real world. Virtual reality and its practical use for art will be the subject of the first part, the second part will feature video games and what could make them art, finally the third part will use reddit.com in order to examine the effect social media has on art, artists, and those who consume art.
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Commented translation
Michalov, Ján ; Kotásek, Miroslav (oponent) ; Zmrzlá, Petra (vedoucí práce)
In this bachelor's thesis, two translations are provided, the first of a popular scientific article, and the second of a technical text. With both translations, an analysis is presented, elaborating on reasons why the author has chosen this particular typical translation obstacles of the given text and its genre. In the conclusion we can find various differences between the expected translation obstacles and the results from practice. It also further compares these two texts and their genres from the translation standpoint.
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Effectiveness of Machine Translation
Kvapil, Lukáš ; Reich, Pavel (oponent) ; Kotásek, Miroslav (vedoucí práce)
The thesis considers machine translation(MT) in terms of difficulties it deals with, describes the most common methods and, with practical examples of MT, evaluates its quality and possible applications. In the first place, the MT has to deal with differences between languages, which can have different inflection, grammatical categories and syntax. Methods to deal with morphological, grammatical and syntactical differences are therefore required. Another problem is on the level of semantics; the MT systems must successfully identify meaning of words and choose appropriate translation. However, the computers have only limited capability in understanding of the meaning and considering context, as well as in making greater decisions about the whole text. To successfully deal with all problems of translation, a complete artificial inteligence would be required, which is not yet available. The most advanced in terms of AI seems to be the neural machine translation, which is the most modern method already used by online translators. The practical example of translation of several types of texts from English to Czech (and from CS to EN) with Google Translate shows that NMT can cope with many language differences and it can often successfully translate terminology and longer phrases, but it still produces a large number of mistakes, reason for which cannot be observed directly, and its behavior is inconsistent and sensitive to any change. To this day, there is still no universal system that would be able to produce Fully Automatic High-Quality Translation. MT application is restricted either by reduced quality of the output or by designing MT system only for specific field or purpose. MT can overall improve translation efficiency, while human involvement is required, but it will not replace human translators in the near future.
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Commented translation
Rajsigl, Tomáš ; Kotásek, Miroslav (oponent) ; Smutný, Milan (vedoucí práce)
The Core of this Commented translation bachelor thesis is the translation of a scientific text from the magazine Energo, which focuses on the field of electrical engineering, mainly the technology of the power supply. A commentary on the differences between the source text and the target text is presented. The topics of transmitting information, cohesion, terminology and localization are discussed. In addition, particularities of the scientific style are debated.
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