Vol. 14. No. 2-3 (12.2013)
Uvodnik
Str. 259 - 262
Introduction to the special issue
E-mail: tgradeca@ffos.hr
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Sažetak: 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...
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E-mail: dvidakovic@ffos.hr
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Sažetak: 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...
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Str. 281 - 294
The prefix super-: A cognitive linguistic approach
E-mail: jasmina.hanic@untz.ba
Sveučilište u Tuzli
Sažetak: 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 ...
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Str. 295 - 306
Metaphor and metonymy in legal texts
E-mail: adisa.imamovic@untz.ba
Sveučilište u Tuzli
Sažetak: 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...
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E-mail: sanja.berberovic@untz.ba
Sveučilište u Tuzli
Sažetak: 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...
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Str. 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
Sažetak: 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...
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Str. 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
Sažetak: 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...
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Str. 363 - 383
Cracking the colour code: A case study of red
E-mail: drazenka@ffos.hr
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Sažetak: 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...
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Str. 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
Sažetak: 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...
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E-mail: mjasavic@yahoo.de
Sveučilište u Zenici
Sažetak: 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...
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E-mail: sruntic@ffos.hr
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Sažetak: 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...
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E-mail: anakedves@gmail.com
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Sažetak: 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...
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Str. 445 - 459
Patterns of dispreferred verbal disagreement in dialogues from American and Serbian films
E-mail: olgapk@sbb.rs
Sveučilište u Novom Sadu
Sažetak: 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...
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E-mail: jzlomislic@ffos.hr
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Sažetak: 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...
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E-mail: mirza.dzanic@untz.ba
Sveučilište u Tuzli
Sažetak: 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....
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E-mail: kavgic@ff.uns.ac.rs
Sveučilište u Novom Sadu
Sažetak: 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...
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Str. 501 - 515
Linguistic landscape in Mostar
E-mail: ivana.grbavac@tel.net.ba
Sveučilište u Mostaru
Sažetak: 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...
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E-mail: sanel.h.jurida@untz.ba
Sveučilište u Tuzli
Sažetak: 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 ...
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Str. 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
Sažetak: 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...
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E-mail: tanja.memisevic@untz.ba
Sveučilište u Tuzli
Sažetak: 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...
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Str. 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
Sažetak: 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...
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Str. 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
Sažetak: 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. ...
