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: Why Japanglish Won't Languish: A Morphosemantic Analysis of English Loanwords in Japanese; Marko Bucić
Starting from the mid-19th century, then increasing dramatically after the Second World War, the influx of English loanwords in Japanese has become a driving force behind the rapid lexical expansion of this East Asian language. Just as American cultural influence has pervaded every facet of Japanese society, the English language has transformed the landscape of both its vocabulary and grammar to the extent that Japanese today cannot be proficiently spoken without the use of English...

: Wikidata; Tea Domić
Ovaj rad bavi se prikazom projekta Wikidate, njenim razvojem, karakteristikama te glavnim prednostima i manama. Wikidata kao dio Wikimedija zaklade, jedna je od projekata koji pružaju besplatan pristup informacijama. Ova baza je razumljiva strojevima i ljudima jer se sastoji od strukturiranih podataka koji su međusobno povezani. Projekt je relativno novi dio Wikimedija, a u cilju ima povezati entitete u strukturiranu bazu podataka kako bi što više informacija bilo integrirano te kako bi...

: Witkiewiczeva vizija revolucije u romanu Rastanak s jeseni; Dorja Habazin
Diplomski rad „Witkiewiczeva vizija revolucije u romanu Rastanak s jeseni“ obraĊuje temu revolucije kroz motive i elemente koji zrcale iskustva Stanisława Ignacyja Witkiewicza u ruskoj Veljaĉkoj revoluciji. Knjiņevni motivi analizirani su u kontekstu dihotomije pojedinac-masa i Witkiewiczeve katastrofistiĉke filozofije. Rad nudi prikaz autorovih ratnih iskustva koje zatim povezuje s elementima romana s ciljem naglańavanja univerzalnosti i zajedniĉke sudbine ĉovjeĉanstva bez...

: Women are just planets that attract the wrong species: An Exploration of Feminist Issues through Dystopia in Jeanette Winterson s The Stone Gods; Petra Antonia Podnar
The thesis examines the ways in which Winterson depicts and eventually unveils the mechanism behind most modern feminist issues. Using repetition as a literary device, but also as a major motif, Winterson builds The Stone Gods into a multi-layered exploration of the challenges of womanhood, history and fate. This metatextual novel contains multitudes, tightly interwoven and virtually inextricable, centering the human condition as a driving force of the perpetuum mobile that is our universe....

: Women in Jewish literature with historical context; Mateja Mirković
The topic of this thesis is Women in Jewish literature within a historical context. The periods in which women are the most studied are within the Biblical periods - pre-monarchic and monarchic period. Women, who in modern times are often considered a second-class, social class in history, are presented here as key figures in Jewish history. Twelve women have been selected whose history, role, historical context, and purpose are described. With their courage, devotion, and love, in addition...

: Word Associations in English as L1 and L2; Marina Auguštin
The organization of the human mental lexicon has been explored for many years through various psychological experiments. This paper focuses on exploring and comparing the first- and the second-language mental lexicon with the help of a word association test. Native and non-native (Croatian) speakers of English provided their associations to twenty words written in English, which were then analysed according to a modified version of a categorization system proposed by Tess Fitzpatrick. This...

: Working Memory in Word Recall; Dunja Ševerdija
The goal of this thesis is to determine whether a component of working memory known as the phonological loop and its rehearsal mechanism are naturally employed by participants when performing a free recall task. Before it delves into the specifics of the research, it offers a brief overview of existing working memory research, the phonological loop model and its function. It takes a look at free recall and the effects that often occur in the results of free recall tasks, namely primacy and...

: World of (English and) Warcraft: Prospects of learning English through MMORPGS; Franko Jagorinec
In the recent years, there has been a surge in research studies dedicated to prospects of learning English through video games, specifically MMORPGs. As video games grow in quality and popularity, so does their potential for learning English. Today, more than ever, MMORPGs focus on interaction between players as well as facilitating community building and cooperative gameplay via new and interesting gameplay mechanics. They provide authentic linguistic input as well as strengthen willingness...

: Writing skills development in L1 and L2: Perspectives of Croatian learners of English; Matea Šuljak
The acquisition of writings skills does not come naturally, it is a skill that needs to be taught, even in the mother tongue. An important question is whether pupils adopt the acquired practices in the second language once the writing skill is acquired in the first language. The aim of this paper is to compare the process of acquiring writing skills and common practices in L1 (Croatian) and L2 (English) from the student’s point of view. The first part of the paper looks into the most...

: XLV. govor sv. Grgura Nazijanskog u latinskom prijevodu Nikole Petrovića; Marta Kontić
Cilj rada bio je prije svega prijepis, a usto i kontekstualna obrada i analiza XLV. govora ("Εἰς τὸ ἅγιον Πάσχα") sv. Grgura Nazijanskog (4. st.) u latinskom prijevodu korčulanskoga humanista Nikole Petrovića (15./16. st.). Rad obuhvaća životopise obojice autora, osvrće se na njihov književni rad i donosi kratku bilješku o sadržaju samoga govora. Analizirane su stilske i jezične osobitosti Petrovićeva prijevoda te tehnike kojima se koristio prilikom prevođenja, a...

: You know, I mean: A Corpus Study of English Verbs of Cognition as Pragmatic Markers in Spoken Academic English Discourse; Marta Bušelić
The thesis explores using the cognition verbs know and mean in pragmatic markers you know and I mean in spoken academic discourse. For this purpose, the first part of the thesis is dedicated to discussing the notion of pragmatic markers and resolving the terminological issues of discourse markers versus pragmatic markers. Next, the class of cognition verbs is presented regarding especially its grammaticalisation and pragmaticisation with their specificity in representing mental processes....

: YouTube kao digitalna banka sadržaja; Damir Sirković
U ovom radu bit će pojašnjen rad YouTubeovog algoritma za distribuciju i promociju sadržaja te način na koji se korisniku prikazuje i predlaže određeni sadržaj. Algoritam za distribuciju integralan je dio YouTubea koji mu omogućuje da funkcionira kao digitalna banka sadržaja, te da taj sadržaj automatizacijom proslijeđuje korisnicima. U uvodnom dijelu razmatraju se povijest YouTubea, nastanak algoritma te princip njegova rada. Središnji dio rada bazira se na obradi...

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