Original scientific article
E-mail: skiszuvela@muza.hr
Academy of Music, University of Zagreb
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Abstract: Most conceptual metaphors that conceptualize musical pitch rely heavily on human perception, images and experience structured through spatial and orientation image schemas such as the schema of VERTIC...
Original scientific article
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Metaphorical models in EU discourse in the Croatian media
E-mail: ljiljana.saric@ilos.uio.no
Universitetet i Oslo, Institutt for litteratur, områdestudier og europeiske språk (ILOS)
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...
Original scientific article
E-mail: strus_pl@yahoo.com
University of of Lódz, Department of Linguistic Pragmatics
Abstract: The present paper bridges considerations characteristic of the domains of
linguistic pragmatics, discourse analysis, as well as of cognitive linguistics
and social psychology. It is claimed that, in s...
Original scientific article
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Images of scales: An English-Slovenian contrastive analysis of idiomatic minimizers and maximizers
Abstract: The paper investigates the syntactic, semantic, and cultural properties of minimizers and maximizers from a contrastive perspective. Minimizers and maximizers are scalar constructions whose function i...
