Vol. 14. No. 2-3 (12.2013)
Editorial
Page 259 - 262
Introduction to the special issue
E-mail: tgradeca@ffos.hr
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Abstract: This is the introduction to a selection of papers presented at the international conference Thirty Five Years of English Studies in Osijek (35YESO) held from 18-19 October 2012 in order to mark the 35...
Original scientific article
E-mail: dvidakovic@ffos.hr
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Abstract: This paper presents the findings of a corpus-based research of the posture verb SIT in English, Croatian and German. In line with the central tenets of cognitive linguistics we argue that figurative m...
Original scientific article
Page 281 - 294
The prefix super-: A cognitive linguistic approach
E-mail: jasmina.hanic@untz.ba
Sveučilište u Tuzli
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to shed more light on the semantic network of the prefix super- and to prove that what lends systematicity to the semantic structure of prefixes is that they are underlyingly ...
Original scientific article
Page 295 - 306
Metaphor and metonymy in legal texts
E-mail: adisa.imamovic@untz.ba
Sveučilište u Tuzli
Abstract: Legal discourse has been studied so far by numerous linguists and legal experts. Linguistic studies have predominantly focused on stylistic elements of the legal register, such as morphological and sy...
Original scientific article
E-mail: sanja.berberovic@untz.ba
Sveučilište u Tuzli
Abstract: The paper examines the use of creative figurative language in American political discourse. In particular, the paper focuses on the use of the expression to play the race card and the creative figurat...
Original scientific article
Page 323 - 336
Who was born with a silver foot in his mouth? Modified idiomatic expressions in political cartoons
E-mail: nihada.delibegovic@untz.ba
Sveučilište u Tuzli
Abstract: The paper addresses the applicability of conceptual integration theory in the study of political cartoons, actually the role of modified idiomatic expressions in the process of cartoon appreciation. I...
Original scientific article
Page 337 - 362
Knocking on EU’s door: On the changing and conflicting metaphorical images of Croatia in selected EU press
E-mail: awerk023@uottawa.ca
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Abstract: The goal of this paper is to analyze the metaphorical construal of Croatia’s EU accession in the political discourse of selected EU press. We first analyze the metaphorical expressions collected betwe...
Original scientific article
Page 363 - 383
Cracking the colour code: A case study of red
E-mail: drazenka@ffos.hr
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Abstract: For both physiological and psychological reasons the colour red is one of the most salient and semantically productive basic colours for human beings. Due to its stability over time, it has received a...
Original scientific article
Page 385 - 402
How word choice matters: An analysis of adjective-noun collocations in a corpus of learner essays
E-mail: vpavicic@ffos.hr
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Leiden University
Abstract: Foreign language learners’ choice of collocations is traditionally considered to be one of the main markers of foreignlanguageness (Korosadowitz-Struzynska 1980: 115), hence relevant in achieving a hi...
Original scientific article
E-mail: mjasavic@yahoo.de
Sveučilište u Zenici
Abstract: Semantic preference and semantic prosody are two notions that have been carefully analysed in corpus linguistics over the past few years. As corpora have become larger in size, and tools for extractin...
Original scientific article
E-mail: sruntic@ffos.hr
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Abstract: This paper discusses the somewhat oxymoronic tie between Ulysses' poststructuralist effect and its structural design. Observing the changes in the linguistic register and the corresponding syntactical...
Original scientific article
E-mail: anakedves@gmail.com
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Abstract: This paper aims to explore the pragmatic aspects of summer school application calls in the framework of Brown and Levinson’s (1987) politeness theory. The first part of the paper elaborates on the the...
Original scientific article
Page 445 - 459
Patterns of dispreferred verbal disagreement in dialogues from American and Serbian films
E-mail: olgapk@sbb.rs
Sveučilište u Novom Sadu
Abstract: Starting from the definition of verbal disagreement as a dispreferred second turn in a conversation, this paper aims at establishing the predominant patterns of such comments and answers found in a se...
Original scientific article
E-mail: jzlomislic@ffos.hr
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Abstract: This study focuses on American academic fiction, with special emphasis on increasing the students’ vocabulary as well as knowledge and understanding of the American culture. Although American academic...
Original scientific article
E-mail: mirza.dzanic@untz.ba
Sveučilište u Tuzli
Abstract: Within the discourse analysis, semiotics identifies how signs are used to represent something. In the discourse of advertising it can be a wish, a need, a desire or a worry to be solved, for instance....
Original scientific article
E-mail: kavgic@ff.uns.ac.rs
Sveučilište u Novom Sadu
Abstract: This paper presents the findings of a small-scale, pilot, corpus-based research conducted on a corpus of 36 Ja, igrač! (‘I, Gamer!’) columns from the magazine Svet kompjutera (Computer World), publish...
Original scientific article
Page 501 - 515
Linguistic landscape in Mostar
E-mail: ivana.grbavac@tel.net.ba
Sveučilište u Mostaru
Abstract: In this paper we aim at presenting the results of a new type of research – linguistic landscaping – done for the very first time in the city of Mostar. The theoretical and methodological approach comb...
Original scientific article
E-mail: sanel.h.jurida@untz.ba
Sveučilište u Tuzli
Abstract: Within the context of Netspeak, and English as a global language, weblogs (blogs) are defined as frequently modified web pages in which dated entries are listed in reverse chronological sequence, are ...
Original scientific article
Page 537 - 548
Foreignization and domestication in the Croatian translations of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
E-mail: gschmidt@ffos.hr
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Abstract: The paper presents results of a diachronic study on foreignization and domestication in the three Croatian translations of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. The study identifies the tran...
Original scientific article
E-mail: tanja.memisevic@untz.ba
Sveučilište u Tuzli
Abstract: There are two generally accepted approaches to research into translation: product-oriented and process-oriented ones (Kussmaul 1995: 5). While the first primarily deals with the results of the transla...
Original scientific article
Page 565 - 576
Mapping visual input onto lexical entries in the bilingual mental lexicon in the language switch condition
E-mail: kristina.cergol@ufzg.hr
Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Abstract: This paper studies the influence of language-specific elements in visual stimuli on the reaction times of bilingual speakers at the moment of the language switch. Premises of the models of bilingual l...
Original scientific article
Page 577 - 598
The relationship between structure complexity and foreign language linguistic knowledge
E-mail: mujcic.vildana@yahoo.com
Sveučilište u Zenici
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Abstract: This article reports on a study which analysed the role of the complexity of linguistic structures in foreign language learners’ linguistic knowledge in terms of both explicit and implicit knowledge. ...
