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Conference interpreting training models and applications
Conference interpreting training models and applications
Anita Krajček
With increased globalization, the interpreting markets expand in all parts of the world. This paper summarizes the most useful conference interpreting training models used in training of conference interpreters. Furthermore, it gives an overview of relevant interpreting schools worldwide regarding the aims of the programme, duration, skills, curriculum and some specific training components that distinguish one programme from the others. Since the foundation of the European Union there has...
Constitutio Criminalis Theresiana-biopolitički osvrt na primjer protomodernog zakonika
Constitutio Criminalis Theresiana-biopolitički osvrt na primjer protomodernog zakonika
Terezija Markovinović
Kaznenopravni sustav Europe kroz veći dio svoje povijesti obilježen je izrazito surovim načinima kažnjavanja. Početkom 13. stoljeća razvija se koncept zločina protiv veličanstva koji je promijenio poglede na sam zločin, a zadržao se i u doba prosvijećenog apsolutizma. Constitutio Criminalis Theresiana kaznenopravni je zakonik nastao 1768. godine za vrijeme vladavine carice Marije Terezije. Razdoblje u kojem je zakonik stupio na snagu bilo je u jeku prosvjetiteljskih ideja o...
Contemporary Issues of the Irish Society in William Wall's "This Is the Country"
Contemporary Issues of the Irish Society in William Wall's "This Is the Country"
Ivana Kuzmić
The purpose of this paper is to elaborate on how Wall in his novel This Is The Country explores the issues of the twenty-first century and indicates the significance of certain spheres of daily life. Wall, writing in the first person, tries to conjure up how the society forms a person and how every event in ones life leaves something behind. In his descriptions, Wall uses everyday language to depict the events realistically and does not leave any details out. The protagonist experiences the...
Contesting the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club
Contesting the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club
Fabijan Vujić
This paper deconstructs and questions the idea of the American Dream in Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club (1996) and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby (1925). It juxta- poses two characters from different eras who face similar issues and go through similar situa- tions, focusing on their spiritual incompatibility with the society of their time and the norms it imposes on an individual. Another problem it addresses is the feasibility of the American Dream and what an...
Contrastive analysis of noun + noun sequences in English and their Croatian translation equivalents
Contrastive analysis of noun + noun sequences in English and their Croatian translation equivalents
Boris Ciganović
This paper presents a contrastive analysis of English syntactic structures consisting of two nouns and their equivalents in the Croatian language. Although in theory a distinction must be drawn between noun phrases consisting of two nouns and nominal compounds also consisting of two nouns, this paper focuses on how English [n+n] structures in general contrast with their Croatian translation equivalents. A selection of authentic English corpus data was translated into Croatian and the...
Conventional (Non-)Linguistic Characteristics of Facebook Marketing
Conventional (Non-)Linguistic Characteristics of Facebook Marketing
Dina Šoštarec
The study examines conventional linguistic and nonlinguistic characteristics of sponsored advertisements on Facebook to determine whether certain features can be considered hallmarks of a language whose primary function is persuasion. As a theoretical background, the paper used Henderson’s copywriting course and Suby’s self-help book for aspiring copywriters and marketers. Consequently, this also means that the study examined whether the techniques both marketers propagate were, in fact,...
Conventions of Detective Fiction in Jo Nesbo's Crime Novels
Conventions of Detective Fiction in Jo Nesbo's Crime Novels
Dora Erceg
This paper analyzes the most important conventions of detective fiction, which originates from Edgar Allan Poe and his first detective story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". Ever since then, the genre has been very popular in American and British literature. However, the detective genre has only recently become very popular in Scandinavian literature, which “has become a familiar brand in North America and Europe in 1990s” (Arvas and Nestingen 1). The Swedish detective and crime...
Corinne Hofmanns „Die weiße Massai“ und die gleichnamige Verfilmung von Hermine Huntgeburth
Corinne Hofmanns „Die weiße Massai“ und die gleichnamige Verfilmung von Hermine Huntgeburth
Nada Perić
Corinne Hofmann, eine junge Schweizerin wollte in Kenia eigentlich nur einen Strandurlaub mit ihrem Freund machen. Doch das Schicksal entschied anders. Ganz unerwartet findet sie in diesem Land ihre große Liebe, für die sie alles aufgibt und in ihr geliebtes Afrika zieht. Jahre später schreibt Hofmann ihre Lebensgeschichte auf. Das Buch wird zum Bestseller. Diese Diplomarbeit beschäftigt sich mit Corinne Hofmanns Buch „Die weiße Massai“ und der gleichnamigen Verfilmung von...
Cornelia Funkes Tintenwelt-Trilogie und Iain Softleys Verfilmung des ersten Bandes "Tintenherz"
Cornelia Funkes Tintenwelt-Trilogie und Iain Softleys Verfilmung des ersten Bandes "Tintenherz"
Lena Hadžiomerović
Diese Diplomarbeit beschäftigt sich mit den drei Büchern Tintenherz, Tintenblut und Tintentod, die die Tintenwelt-Trilogie der deutschen Autorin Cornelia Funke ausmachen, und dessen Verfilmung Tintenherz des englischen Regisseurs Iain Softley. Die Methoden der Filmanalyse werden am Anfang erwähnt. Es handelt sich um die Methoden der Komparatistik und des strukturalistischen Zugriffs auf sowohl die literarische Vorlage als auch deren Adaption. Daraufhin folgt die Buch- und Filmanalyse....
Critical Discourse Analysis of Online News Headlines in English Reporting on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Critical Discourse Analysis of Online News Headlines in English Reporting on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Matej Pranjić
This paper studies the degree of congruence between the headlines and text bodies in The Guardian and the Daily Mail reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic. The hypothesis is that The Guardian should be less sensationalist, less politically and negatively biased than the Daily Mail, as well as scoring a higher degree of congruence. The research is based on the framework provided by the approach of Critical Discourse Analysis. The paper first outlines the theoretical preliminaries necessary for...
Critical Discourse Analysis of the titles in online newspaper sources
Critical Discourse Analysis of the titles in online newspaper sources
Matej Pranjić
This paper presents a short review of Critical Discourse Analysis and presents some general findings about the language of online news headlines. The paper first summarizes the theoretical and methodological elements of Critical Discourse Analysis as an approach to the study of language in use. Then it follows with a section on news and media discourse, and briefly details aspects of newspaper discourse and the specifics of news discourse in an online environment. The research in the paper...

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