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The author brings the basic data on the notion of šokaštvo and its origin, as well as its various definitions. This work gives a depicted definition of bećarac (Slavonian humorous-ribald folk song), its function and use. It tries to explain the…

This study exhibits how orientalist view reveals itself in The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi. Many of the subjects represented in the novel are still relevant in today’s society. One of the most important one is “Orientalism” which is…

The use of common people and objects as persuasive tools is an advertising strategy focuses on the assumption that common man can easily be identified with the masses i.e. target group for an advertiser. The ads feature people who appear to be…

DO ORIGINS MATTER? Can awareness of these serve in the English-learning process? Modern English has evolved through the last 1500 years as a hybrid language (Crystal, D. 2004). The Angles the Saxons and the Danes all made important…

College entrance exams are known to be one of the most nerve-racking steps a student has to cross for a better future. These exams measure students’ collective knowledge in different skill areas and predict what potentials they have for future…

Despite the fact that phrasal verbs are used in everyday English, foreign learners avoid learning and using them for their complexity and impossibility to understand the meaning of a phrasal verb from its separate parts (a verb itself and a particle…

Linguistic landscaping is a pioneering subfield of sociolinguistics exploring language in its written form in urban contexts. Since 1997 (Laundry and Bourhis, 1997), as a swiftly expanding research area worldwide, it has proved to be a relevant…

Over the past a few decades, we have started to experience the linguistic impacts of the latest communication technology which was, most specifically, the Internet and with its different domains. The Internet has become a main free resource which is…

Relationships with others, in this modern globalized world, command respective challenges in communication and bring closely everyone into connection with people of other languages and cultures. The latter make people require exchanging cognitive…

The individual as a part of the society owns a very important element so that he can become part of it: the verbal communication. If we focus here we will see that the language user is the past, the present and the future of language itself. From one…