At the root of the American liberal-conservative political fracture lies language – particularly, figurative language with its richness of metaphorical expressions which strongly mark the global political communication. From Aristotle’s playing with…
As the way of thinking embodied in language, metaphors supply cohesion to ideology and culture projecting common understanding of social phenomena. The actors in the world of politics and security, in an attempt to gain overwhelming support for…
The paper aims to shed light on how subtitlers cope with metaphor translation. The paper presents the results of a case study on a set of English subtitles of one Croatian movie. Metaphor translation procedures were analyzed using Conceptual…
Ovaj rad ispituje konceptualnu metafgoru „LJUDI SU ŽIVOTINJE“ u poeziji Muhameda Elezovića, ne tako poznatog pjesmika iz Bosne, ali usko povezanog s datom temom. Kroz teorijski okvir koji su postavili Lejkof i Džonson (1980) poznat kao Kognitivna…
One of the main themes in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is business of marriage. During and 19th century women were not financially independent and had no right to own property. Therefore the only choice left for them was to settle with a man of…
Listening in another language is a hard job so English teachers have to use various strategies to make it easier and to be very careful in choosing the material for listening in order to motivate their students and keep their attention. Most of the…
This research has two main purposes: 1. to distinguish structural types of synonymic groups; 2. to verify the headwords of synonymic groups as a linguistic or psycholinguistic concept. Typically headword has: 1) common semantic elements, 2)…
Vocabulary research has followed a different path in English and in Spanish applied linguistics. Spanish applied linguistics has paid more attention to available lexicons of speakers than to word frequency. The measure of lexical availability…
Legal discourse is very much tainted by political, ideological, historical, cultural characteristics, much more so than the language of mathematics or technology. Independently of any culturally, historically and linguistically determined variation,…
This paper deals with teaching English discourse markers to native speakers of Bosnian who learn English as a second language. We present a corpus of realistic audio and video recordings of every-day Bosnian and British English conversation and argue…
