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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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Compliments and compliment responses across cultures and gender
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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...
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Conceptual Metaphor Time is Money
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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...
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Conceptual Metaphor as a Basis of Language Change – a Case of Nouns Pertaining to Family Relationships
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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...
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Conceptual metaphors and the construal of the global economic crisis: a cognitive-contrastive view
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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...
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