Influence of modern English on current Czech vocabulary in the field of IT

The main theme of this work is the influence of modern English on the contemporary Czech vocabulary. It isets itself the goal to at least partly map the development of this influence, reasons for the increase in volume of the borrowed words and the motivation for borrowing words. Also a part of this work is an overview of the thematic areas in which borrowing words occurred most often. The work itself is divided into a theoretical part containing the above mentioned analysis as well as classification of anglicisms according to various criteria and then the practical part containing a specialized dictionary mapping the terminology of Information Technologies selected from lectures and specialized magazines, additionaly it is terminology which had not yet been codified. One of the most difficult parts of this work was selecting the right entries which would be known even to people outside of a small circle of computer specialists but which were also new enough not to be included in already published distionaries. To check this I have among others used Nový akademický slovník cizích slov (Academia Praha, 2007). The target audience of this work is a reader aware of the increasing pace of development of the world around him who noticed the growing volue of anglicisms in Czech. This work then offers at least..