Although semantic prosody, introduced to the academic community by Louw (1993), has since been the subject of some debate, a consensus on the existence and power of this linguistic phenomenon (diagnosable through corpus analysis alone) has been…
Everything has been predefined with the previous historical events. Mattia Pascal has destroyed all previous notions of a modern man and, in a high satirical way, plays with the role of a man in today’s society. Facing the opportunity that life does…
The aim of this paper is to determine conceptual and linguistic possibilities for transposition of Turkish words into English and their equivalents in Bosnian language in the novel “The Bridge over the Drina” by Ivo Andtic. The starting hypothesis…
Main goal of the article is the establishment of common ground between two fields of language study; Linguistics and Literature, since the common links that connect these branches not only exist, but are strongly present in many areas of each field.…
Contemporary times are characterised by the processes of globalization, rapid production and fluctuation of diverse information and technological advances, especially in the media, and it is the young people, teenagers and primary school children who…
From Henry James, the central theme for the writers of Modernism is something which Peter Nicolas called ``shock of exile`` or cultural contrast. Starting his works with the idea of cultural contrast. Henry James made popular the international theme…
This paper tries to give an insight into political reasoning through the theoretic framework of cognitive linguistics. Through an analysis of conceptual metaphors used in the corpus of inaugural speeches of American presidents, we will show how the…
The relationship between teaching, culture and language is extremely complex for a teacher teaching foreign students in a foreign language, given the lack of the common frame of reference on which to rely as guidelines for the teaching process in…
In practice, often there is no systematic way of dictionary use which would enable learners to become independent users and help them lay foundations for lifelong learning. Some of the reasons are that linguists do not agree on the role of…
It is very difficult to make decisions, especially when one's future depends on it. The focus of this research is on elaborating the elements of violence and hatred in Emily Brontë’s only novel, Wuthering Heights. Catherine, the heroine of the story,…
