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Common sense kod Kanta
Common sense kod Kanta
Valentina Vaško
Namjera je rada obraditi značenje i smještaj termina common sense ili sensus communis kroz filozofiju, prvenstveno Immanuela Kanta ali i onu koja prethodi te nastupa tek poslije njega. Naglasak ostaje na poimanju navedenog termina upravo kod Immanuela Kanta unutar njegove estetike. Da bi se ponudio što bolji opis termina, rad započinje kratkim uvidom u najistaknutije filozofe, počevši od Aristotela, Giambattista Vica, Thomasa Reida i Renea Descartesa, koji su koristili termin. U...
Comparative Analysis of Terminology in EU Legislation on Taxation in English, Croatian and German
Comparative Analysis of Terminology in EU Legislation on Taxation in English, Croatian and German
Gabriela Dumančić
This thesis, written on the basis of EU legislation on taxation in English, Croatian, and German, is based on the analysis of twenty nine regulations (one recast included) in force issued by the Parliament, the Council, the Commission, and the European Central Bank, corrigenda excluded. The regulations were issued in the time span from 1968 to 2014, and their analysis not only yields a useful array of correct terminology, but also goes to show how standardized EU terminology is, with its...
Comparison of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt's sequel "Dracula the Un-dead"
Comparison of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt's sequel "Dracula the Un-dead"
Matea Crljenić
Dracula is a well known character in gothic fiction and has a great deal of following in pop culture. He is typically seen as a monster who preys on people without having any remorse; at least that is true for Dracula created by Bram Stoker. Readers do not know the true intention of Dracula’s actions and his reason for revenge, which makes him one of the scariest monsters. However, the sequel to Stoker’s novel, Dracula the Un-dead, written by Stoker’s greatgrandnephew Dacre Stoker...
Comparison of Vocational and Grammar School Learners' Motivation in English as a Foreign Language
Comparison of Vocational and Grammar School Learners' Motivation in English as a Foreign Language
Nives Berka
The aim of this paper is to compare vocational and grammar school learners' motivation in learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL). The first part of the paper brings the theoretical overview of the affective domain, and motivation as one of the most important factor influencing language learning. Furthermore, some second language motivational theories and models are presented. In the second part, the research on motivation in EFL among vocational and grammar school learners is...
Complexity of English NPs: A Corpus-Based Study of Complex NPs Featuring Multiple Premodification
Complexity of English NPs: A Corpus-Based Study of Complex NPs Featuring Multiple Premodification
Denis Konjarević
The aim of this paper is to explore the complexity of English noun phrases with emphasis on the order of premodifiers, i.e. to describe the factors that determine the relative position of premodifiers within NP strings. Earlier studies have shown a great deal of variability considering the subject, providing divergent interpretations: structural, semantic, transformational, and psycholinguistic (Feist 2008: 22). Diverse syntactic, semantic, morphological and other properties of premodifying...
Compliments and compliment responses across cultures and gender
Compliments and compliment responses across cultures and gender
Ana Kedveš
Compliments constitute an important aspect of humans' everyday communication. The skill of complimenting is highly indicative of one's pragmatic competence. Compliments perform different functions, from increasing social rapport, establishing friendly relationships, expressing admiration and affection, greeting and introducing to showing speaker's envy, disapproval, sarcasm or an intention to flatter the addressee into one own advantage. Therefore, compliments can also be perceived as...
Conceptual Metaphor Time is Money
Conceptual Metaphor Time is Money
Krešimir Vuletić
This paper explains the definition of the conceptual metaphor in general and applies these facts to the conceptual metaphor “Time is money”. Some sub-categorizations, such as “Time is a valuable commodity” and “Time is a limited resource”, will be explained. The meaning and understanding of the conceptual metaphor is connected to the culture we belong to. The comparison with the German, Hungarian, Croatian and Chinese languages proves that the conceptual metaphor “Time is...
Conceptual Metaphor as a Basis of Language Change – a Case of Nouns Pertaining to Family Relationships
Conceptual Metaphor as a Basis of Language Change – a Case of Nouns Pertaining to Family Relationships
Maja Fabijanac
Everyday human language is a result of constant historical changes, influences of other languages, and the human mind. Language and our mind play the central role in the process of communication as a base of human life. All beings communicate on some level but it is with the human beings that this communication is most evident. We understand the concepts dually, metaphorically and literally. This paper discusses the role of cognitive mechanisms in the English language. In other words, this...
Conceptual metaphors and the construal of the global economic crisis: a cognitive-contrastive view
Conceptual metaphors and the construal of the global economic crisis: a cognitive-contrastive view
Dane Scheibl
This paper attempts to determine and classify conceptual metaphors whose concepts deal with the economy, the economic processes and the global financial crisis in the English and Croatian corpora. The approach to metaphor is mainly cognitive linguistic: metaphors were identified using broad criterion that the domain A is rendered in terms of the domain B which served as the universal category in order to conduct the vertical contrastive analysis. The metaphors are grouped in seven clusters...
Conceptualization of Aestheticism and Duality of Human Nature in Wilde’s "The Importance of Being Earnest", Marlowe’s "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus" and Poe’s "The Cask of Amontillado"
Conceptualization of Aestheticism and Duality of Human Nature in Wilde’s "The Importance of Being Earnest", Marlowe’s "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus" and Poe’s "The Cask of Amontillado"
Nina Hrgović
The paper is an attempt to analyze and discuss the features of the Aesthetic Movement in English literature, as well as the concept of the duality of human nature, focusing on three works: Oscar Wilde's “The Importance of Being Earnest” (1986), Christopher Marlowe's “The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus” (1616) and Edgar Alan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” (1846). As an important representative of aestheticism, a literary movement which argued that art should provide...

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