English film titles and their Czech equivalents

Mgr. Vratislav Berdis

Bakalářská práce

Anotace:

The thesis analyses a corpus consisting of several hundreds of English film titles and compares them with their equivalents used by distributors in Czech cinemas and television. The titles are examined from the point of view of their form, meaning, associations which they arouse, relation to the topics and plots of films, etc. Special attention is paid to the types of correspondence between English titles and their Czech equivalents.

Abstract:

The thesis analyses a corpus consisting of several hundreds of English film titles and compares them with their equivalents used by distributors in Czech cinemas and television. The titles are examined from the point of view of their form, meaning, associations which they arouse, relation to the topics and plots of films, etc. Special attention is paid to the types of correspondence between English titles and their Czech equivalents.

Keywords

Film, title, Czech, translation, methods, theory, film industry, marketing

Jazyk práce: angličtina

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 11. 12. 2013

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Obhajoba proběhla 29. 1. 2014
• Vedoucí: Mgr. Radek Vogel, Ph.D.
• Oponent: PhDr. Irena Přibylová, Ph.D.

Masarykova univerzita

Pedagogická fakulta

Bakalářský studijní program / obor:
Specializace v pedagogice / Lektorství cizího jazyka - anglický jazyk