Sažetak: Can the use of linguistic devices to achieve persuasion, such as metaphor, irony and hyperbole, ever be “too persuasive”, i.e., overshoot its rhetorical aim? More specifically, can the combination of ...

Sažetak: The present study can be seen as the second stage of a larger research concerning the real proverb usage in contemporary written Bulgarian language. While the first survey aimed to determine the most ...

Sažetak: Poslovice su jezične minijature kojima se shematiziraju konkretna iskustva i izriču životne istine. S obzirom na njihovo porijeklo, za očekivati je da će se poslovice češće pojavljivati u usmenoj komu...