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Cockney English
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Marija Matošić Cockney, a Southern English accent, was characteristic of all sorts of people, including craftsmen, clerks and tradesmen and it originally denoted “inferior and worthless thing” and “pampered child”. It is closely associated with East End and the church St. Mary Le Bow. Due to an old saying, a true Cockney is the one who is born within the earshot of the Bow Bells. They have borrowed words from the Empire, the gypsies, English Jews and from many others. Many famous writers discussed...
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Cockney rhyming slang and other argots
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Petra Tivanovac This paper is about different argots used by various groups of people, and will focus on Cockney rhyming slang in particular. Firstly, to be able to comprehend the topic fully, those terms must be explained and defined.
Also, in numerous cases it can be seen that people tend to confuse argot with jargon or slang, and in this thesis those terms will be differentiated.
The reader will be introduced to argot as a secret language used by different groups to prevent people outside those...
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Code-switching in language use
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Marinela Lovrić Code- switching is a relatively new but widely discussed topic in sociolinguistics. The process of using two or more linguistic varieties (language, dialect or register) in the same interaction is very common, especially among bilinguals. To them switching comes naturally but at the same time it has clearly defined functions, which makes it even more intriguing for linguists. Therefore, code-switching became an interesting and frequent research topic studied from numerous perspectives....
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Cognitive Approach to Meaning: Profile and Base
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Tea Maksimović This paper will be dealing with cognitive approach to language and its reseach of meaning through categories. There will be a short comparison between formal and functional approaches to language and their notions explained. The questions of existance of natural categories and the influence language has on one's thought processes will also be raised, along with the question of linguistic universalities caused by biological universalities. The categories of a profile, a base and a domain will...
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Comics -The Mythology of Our Era
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Dario Jelečević This paper discusses the mythological foundations of popular comic books Detective Comics (DC) and Action Comics – the Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman series, Marvel Comics, Dragon Ball Manga, and Shonen Manga. It pays special attention to the heroes' characterization and the similarities, as well as the discrepancies between mythological tropes and their comic book adaptations. The main thesis of this paper is that comic books are the mythology of our era. They are an integral part of...
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Common sense kod Kanta
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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...
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Comparative Analysis of MemoQ Adaptive Generative Translation (AGT) with Conventional Machine Translation (MT) Engines
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Josip Aladrović This thesis aims to conduct a comprehensive comparative analysis between memoQ Adaptive Generative Translation (AGT) and conventional Machine Translation (MT) engines regarding their efficacy and accuracy in translating English language texts into Croatian. The study will investigate various aspects such as translation accuracy, fluency, and terminological consistency by the means qualitative analyses and of automatic evaluation provided by the MATEO evaluation platform and selected metrics...
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Comparative Analysis of Terminology in EU Legislation on Taxation in English, Croatian and German
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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...
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Comparison of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt's sequel "Dracula the Un-dead"
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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...
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Comparison of Vocational and Grammar School Learners' Motivation in English as a Foreign Language
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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...
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Complexity of English NPs: A Corpus-Based Study of Complex NPs Featuring Multiple Premodification
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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...
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