Abstract: Ausgangspunkt des vorliegenden Beitrags ist die feldmäßige Beschreibung des Passivs. Dabei erscheint es notwendig, das Passiv-Makrofeld in die Passiv-Mikrofelder 1 [– Modalfaktor] und 2 [+ Modalfaktor...

Abstract: This paper discusses the tension that exists between linguistic and psychological approaches to metaphor. It aims to demonstrate that interdisciplinary efforts are probably not all of equal value when...

Abstract: Ever since the Chomskyan views revolutionised the scientific study of language, we have been expecting to see groundbreaking results relative to the workings of the human language faculty. Unfortunate...

Abstract: We wish to establish to what extent the methods of analysis developed within the framework of the Cognitive Theory of Metaphor (CTM) can be applied to idiom analysis. Conventionalised figurative metap...

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...

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...

Abstract: One of most dominant conceptual metaphors used to talk about the COVID-19 across languages and cultures is the WAR metaphor, but many other metaphors have been attested, exploiting a wide range of sou...