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A Brief Overview of Issues in Medical Translation
A Brief Overview of Issues in Medical Translation
Sara Žganjar
This thesis comprises five annotated translations, accompanied by a discussion. Excerpts from two books and three Cochrane reviews were translated from English into Croatian (Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind. Intercultural Cooperation and Its Importance for Survival by Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede, and Michael Minkov, A University Education by David Willetts, Limited versus full sternotomy for aortic valve replacement, by Kirmani, Jones, Chung, Williams, and Malaisrie,...
A CDA Study of Twitter as a Tool for Inciting Violence
A CDA Study of Twitter as a Tool for Inciting Violence
Doroteja Dežđek
After the events that took place at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021, Twitter has assessed that then-president Donald Trump has violated their policy on using Twitter to incite violence among other things. Due to the risk of further incitement of violence, Donald Trump’s account has been permanently suspended. In the context of broader events, this paper has examined in which ways the selected Tweets can be interpreted when it comes to inciting violence and how can Trump’s tweets be...
A Comparative Analysis of English and German Animal Idioms: A Corpus Study
A Comparative Analysis of English and German Animal Idioms: A Corpus Study
Petra Lončar
Animals are one of the most prolific sources for the creation of idioms. Aside from the domain of the human body, idioms originating from the domain of animals are one of the most frequent. Since human behavior seems to be metaphorically understood in terms of animal behavior (Kövecses 2010: 124), different properties of animals are often used to vividly display certain events or the behavior, feelings, states, and appearance of people. Throughout history, animals were exploited not only...
A Comparative Analysis of English and Hungarian Adjectives Expressing Ability and Possibility: -able/-ible versus -ható/-hető
A Comparative Analysis of English and Hungarian Adjectives Expressing Ability and Possibility: -able/-ible versus -ható/-hető
Ema Sabo
Although typologically distant and belonging to distinct language families, both English and Hungarian exhibit a high proportion of adjectives created by the addition of a derivational suffix denoting ability and possibility. This adjectival suffix is realized as -able or -ible in English, and as -ható or -hető in Hungarian. Adjectives created in this manner are predominantly deverbal, even though there exist instances of suffixes being added to a nominal root. Through corpus-based...
A Contrastive Analysis of Metaphors Belonging to the Basic Conceptual Metaphor PEOPLE ARE PLANTS in English and Croatian
A Contrastive Analysis of Metaphors Belonging to the Basic Conceptual Metaphor PEOPLE ARE PLANTS in English and Croatian
Nina Bassi
The aim of this paper was to use the subdomains of FLOWERS, VEGETABLES and FRUITS, which fall under the basic conceptual metaphor PEOPLE ARE PLANTS, to show the differences between English and Croatian. The assumption is that the source domain PLANTS is well-grounded in people’s everyday experience, thus, well-grounded in the cognitive processes also. PEOPLE ARE PLANTS metaphor is related to the Great Chain of Being metaphor which points out to the similarities in these two cultures, but...
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Skincare Products for Women and Men
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Skincare Products for Women and Men
Kristina Burić
This thesis analyses the difference in language choices and advertising strategies in skincare advertisements for women and skincare advertisements for men. Advertising's pervasive presence in daily life is fueled by tailored marketing strategies and digital tracking methods. Language and gender are intricately linked, with linguistic patterns reinforcing societal gender norms. This study examines strategies in skincare advertising, shedding light on how advertisers shape...
A Critical Metaphor Analysis of Rap Lyrics: The Case of Kanye West
A Critical Metaphor Analysis of Rap Lyrics: The Case of Kanye West
Petra Stefanović
The study examines metaphorical realizations of the theme of self-aggrandizement in Kanye West’s lyrics. The purpose of the study was to show how poetic metaphor serves a purpose and relays messages to the listener, relying on their background world and cultural knowledge. The songs analyzed are from West’s 2010 album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Given that linguistic research often focuses on conceptual metaphors, the analysis was done using a methodological approach...
A Multimodal Analysis of Immersion in Persona 5 Royal
A Multimodal Analysis of Immersion in Persona 5 Royal
Martin Ivančić
This master’s thesis presents an analysis of immersion in the acclaimed videogame Persona 5 Royal. Drawing on the principles of multimodal analysis, the study explores the interplay of various elements, including narrative, language, characters, intertextuality, and visual design. Due to the area of study, the strongest emphasis will be put on language and linguistic elements specifically. Through the inclusion of the aforementioned fields, the research examines the codependence between...
A Pragmatic Analysis of Contextual and Co-textual Cues in Sarcastic Comments on Reddit
A Pragmatic Analysis of Contextual and Co-textual Cues in Sarcastic Comments on Reddit
Maja Bregović
This graduation thesis deals with the comparison of sarcastic cues in spoken and everyday written online communication. It explains lexical and pragmatic cues for verbal sarcasm, correlates them with the written environment and eventually categorizes written cues based on the data collected on the platform Reddit.
A Pragmatic Analysis of the Expression and Interpretation of Sarcasm in Chats on Facebook Messenger
A Pragmatic Analysis of the Expression and Interpretation of Sarcasm in Chats on Facebook Messenger
Vjera Krašek
Sarcasm is most typically defined as a type of speech that draws attention to discrepancies between an utterance and its intended meaning, or the current and counterfactual situation, often as a way of dampening critical remarks or being humorous. Sarcastic intent can be signaled with the use of a variety of multimodal cues in face-to-face communication, mainly verbal cues, gestures, facial expressions, and prosody. Computer-mediated communication has for a long time constrained our ability...
A Pragmatic Analysis of the Selected English and Croatian Online Newspapers' Headlines
A Pragmatic Analysis of the Selected English and Croatian Online Newspapers' Headlines
Tajana Kovačević
Since online newspapers began ‘battling’ for clicks, it seems there has been a surge of clickbait and other sensationalist headlines that can annoy and deter readers. In this thesis, headlines from the selected British and Croatian newspapers are analyzed in order to compare quality newspapers with tabloid newspapers, as well as two different sections of the news within the same newspapers – regular and lifestyle news sections, with regards to the informative and eye-catching elements...
A Semana de Arte Moderna e o Modernismo Brasileiro na pintura
A Semana de Arte Moderna e o Modernismo Brasileiro na pintura
Tena Lovrenčić
O tema do presente trabalho é a análise interpretativa da Semana de Arte Moderna que foi a primeira manifestação coletiva de arte moderna no Brasil, realizada em 1922, entre os dias 11 e 18 de fevereiro, no Teatro Municipal de São Paulo. Dá-se uma contextualização mais ampla do evento que, na historiografia tradicional, ainda marca simbolicamente o início do modernismo brasileiro. A primeira parte da tese apresenta as características principais do movimento modernista, cujo...

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