Annotated Translation: Daniel Levitin, This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession; UK: Penguin Group 2006, chapter 4

The aim of this bachelor's thesis is to translate the fourth chapter of the popular science publication called This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession from English into Czech. The book deals with the effect of music on the human brain, it was written by Daniel Levitin, a Canadian-American author, and published in 2006 by Dutton (Penguin Group). The thesis also includes a commentary on the overall translation process and analysis and everything that a translator must attend during their work. In addition to the translation itself, the thesis therefore includes the analysis of the source text, as well as the translation method and fictional assignment, selected translation problems and their solution through translation techniques and shifts. Key words translation, commented translation, translation analysis, music, cognitive psychology, neuroscienc