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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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Conference interpreting training models and applications
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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...
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Constitutio Criminalis Theresiana-biopolitički osvrt na primjer protomodernog zakonika
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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...
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Contemporary Issues of the Irish Society in William Wall's "This Is the Country"
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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...
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Contesting the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club
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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...
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Contrastive analysis of noun + noun sequences in English and their Croatian translation equivalents
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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...
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