Abstract: Pripovjedni diskurs kao dio svakodnevne djetetove komunikacije može pružiti mnogo cjelovitiji jezični kontekst od raznih jezičnih testova koji procjenjuju uporabu riječi i rečenica izolirano zato što ...

Abstract: On the basis of a summation of topics that have emerged from research of text messaging in Croatian during the last ten years, other major questions and issues have also surfaced. In this paper we foc...

Abstract: This paper is based on the study of the translation pairs of passive sentences found in two legislative texts, a corpus of 23,140 words. The two texts are used to determine the passive voice frequency...

Abstract: Im Artikel wird eine linguistische Analyse des Texts „Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge“ von R.M. Rilke unternommen. Untersucht werden in erster Linie die Erzählformen- und Techniken, sowie ...

Abstract: This article studies a number of semantic and pragmatic phenomena with consequences for the development of discourse. Thus, our study of the way we make use of cognitive models in discourse allows us ...

Abstract: This paper aims at reconstructing aspects of the current conceptualization and linguistic representation of issues concerning the European Union and its expansion, while exploring the role of metaphor...

Abstract: The article presents an analysis of the over 12,000 occurrences of fail and failure followed by to in the 100m-word British National Corpus. In its lexical use, fail is a negative-implicative verb of ...