Vertical contrastive analysis of the polysemy of the English adjective hot and the Croatian adjective vruć

Bošnjak, Ivana

master's thesis

Vertical contrastive analysis of the polysemy of the English adjective hot and the Croatian adjective vruć

Bošnjak, Ivana (2012)

Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Bošnjak, I. (2012). Vertical contrastive analysis of the polysemy of the English adjective hot and the Croatian adjective vruć (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:330814

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Bošnjak, Ivana. "Vertical contrastive analysis of the polysemy of the English adjective hot and the Croatian adjective vruć." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2012. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:330814

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Bošnjak I. Vertical contrastive analysis of the polysemy of the English adjective hot and the Croatian adjective vruć [Master's thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2012 [cited 2020 July 06] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:330814

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I. Bošnjak, "Vertical contrastive analysis of the polysemy of the English adjective hot and the Croatian adjective vruć", Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2012. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:330814

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Title	Vertical contrastive analysis of the polysemy of the English adjective hot and the Croatian adjective vruć
Title (croatian)	Vertikalna kontrastivna analiza polisemije engleskoga pridjeva 'hot' i hrvatskoga pridjeva 'vruć'
Author	Ivana Bošnjak
Mentor	Gabrijela Buljan (mentor)
Committee member	Gabrijela Buljan (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee member	Tanja Gradečak Erdeljić (član povjerenstva)
Committee member	Mario Brdar (član povjerenstva)
Granter	Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Department of English Language and Literature) Osijek
Defense date and country	2012-03-06, Croatia
Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline	HUMANISTIC SCIENCES Philology
Abstract	This paper deals with the semantic phenomenon of lexical polysemy. The theoretical part covers mostly the topic of polysemy. It illustrates the difference between polysemy and the phenomenon of homonymy and vagueness. It also defines metaphor and metonymy from cognitive linguistics’ point of view, which play a great role in meaning extension. The research is based on the analysis of 59 examples in English and 44 examples in Croatian. The aim of the paper is to explore the extent and the limits of polysemy of the adjective hot in English, and of its Croatian counterpart vruć, as well as the role of metaphor and metonymy in meaning extension of the adjective hot, i.e. vruć. The analysis discusses the translations of the adjective hot to Croatian, and vice versa, the translations of the Croatian adjective vruć to English. The results show that meaning extensions are mostly defined by means of metaphor and metonymy. Considering the contrastive analysis between the English adjective hard and its counterparts in Croatian, and the tolerance in terms of polysemy, the results make English more polysemy-friendly than Croatian.
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Language	english
URN:NBN	urn:nbn:hr:142:330814
Study programme	Title: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Teacher Training, Translation and Interpreting Studies, Philology Course: Teacher Training Study programme type: university Study level: graduate Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti)
Study programme	Title: Publishing Studies (double major) Study programme type: university Study level: graduate Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra nakladništva (magistar/magistra nakladništva)
Type of resource	Text
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