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One of the main themes in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is business of marriage. During and 19th century women were not financially independent and had no right to own property. Therefore the only choice left for them was to settle with a man of…

Ovaj rad ispituje konceptualnu metafgoru „LJUDI SU ŽIVOTINJE“ u poeziji Muhameda Elezovića, ne tako poznatog pjesmika iz Bosne, ali usko povezanog s datom temom. Kroz teorijski okvir koji su postavili Lejkof i Džonson (1980) poznat kao Kognitivna…

The paper aims to shed light on how subtitlers cope with metaphor translation. The paper presents the results of a case study on a set of English subtitles of one Croatian movie. Metaphor translation procedures were analyzed using Conceptual…

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…

At the root of the American liberal-conservative political fracture lies language – particularly, figurative language with its richness of metaphorical expressions which strongly mark the global political communication. From Aristotle’s playing with…

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,…

With so many various approaches and new methods being constantly developed teachers are faced with a challenging task of choosing a suitable one for their classes. This can often be overwhelming so teachers are tempted to use proven traditional…

According to the staff of the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Zenica, second year students are not easily motivated to participate in classroom discussions. Most of the time, students are encouraged to participate,…

Motivation is probably the most important factor for successful learning of any kind. This paper will attempt to explore the process of motivation for English language learning in secondary school learners considering the variable of age - its…

The topic of this work is multilingualism in Prizren region. Prizren is the second largest city in Kosovo and largest cultural centar of Kosovo. The city it self has around 100 000 residents but its surrounding is very large. Ethnical and…