The article deals with the V-ing form of the verb in the position of nuclear predicative component. The author analyses the structure of the sentences with V-ing form of the verb, revealing syntactic connections of it. Keywords: nuclear…
As the way of thinking embodied in language, metaphors supply cohesion to ideology and culture projecting common understanding of social phenomena. The actors in the world of politics and security, in an attempt to gain overwhelming support for…
This paper introduces assessment in general terms, its main function and methods used in schools, as well as new alternative evaluating methods (self and peer assessment, project assessment and portfolio) that are advised to be used in classroom…
This paper analyzes how students of 7 Bosnia and Herzegovina's (BiH) universities discursively construct their ethnic and national identities in relation to the country's past as one of the republics of the former Socialist Federal Republic of…
Dvadeseto stoljeće je obilježeno razvojem islamskih zemalja koje su se nastojale individualizirati. U 21. stoljeću svijet je usmjerio svoju pažnju na „fenomen“ zvani arapsko proljeće. Demonstracije i neredi su označeni kao novo buđenje muslimana…
Cognitive learning styles and learning strategies differ from person to person. Identifying student learning styles helps educators understand how people perceive and process information in different ways. The stable and pervasive characteristics of…
The assessment of learners’ competence provides objective evidence necessary in the decision-making process in education.This is a key factor to decide the development and understanding of the students' learning. In most higher education…
Based on the theoretical background from pragmatics and cognitive linguistics, this paper describes the role of conceptual metonymy in the two linguistic branches mentioned. Within the mentioned theoretical frame of the two linguistic disciplines,…
Nearly four decades have passed since the publication of Janet Byron’s contributions in the 1970s concerning official language policy and planning (LPP) efforts for Unified Literary Albanian (i.e., Literary Albanian or more recently Standard…
The principal motivation of this study is to investigate how Macedonian learners of English mitigate their disagreement. It is a follow-up of a much broader study in the field of cross-cultural pragmatics focusing on disagreement in Macedonian and…
