This paper focuses on the topic regarding the process of language standardization. The standardization process is an important field of sociolinguistics and it is highly researched due to the different factors affecting standard language of a…
Euphemisms are the forms of language used to replace unpleasant, inappropriate and undesired words. In linguistics, however, the words that are forbidden or unwanted in a particular society are referred to as taboo words. Since these two terms have…
Gender exerts a powerful influence on all facets of human communication and raises many profound social issues. General usage of the term gender began in the late 1960s and 1970s, increasingly appearing in the professional literature of the social…
Roman Limeni bubanj (1959.) spada među najznačajnija književna djela na njemačkom jeziku. Ovim je djelom autor stekao svjetsku slavu, a svojm je pojavljivanjem označio prekretnicu u povijesti njemačkoga romana. Cilj ovoga rada je prikaz ženskih…
Most studies on interlanguage pragmatics have been confined to the production aspect of L2 learners’ pragmatic development, losing sight of pragmatic comprehension and its relationship with listening comprehension and textbook-based pragmatic input.…
This study explores the differential effect of giving and receiving WCF on prompting writing of Iranian EFL learners. To this end, 61 learners of English were randomly assigned to a WCF Giver group (n - 19), a WCF Receiver group (n = 22), and a…
The class of English nouns which are referred to as derived nominals is not a homogenous class. Namely, derived nominals can further be classified into process and result nominals. A group of properties owing to which such a classification is…
The paper discusses Sherman Alexie's 2007 novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian within the context of the (de)construction of identity and Otherness of a “new” American Indian in the contemporary world. Through analysis of the…
Following the earlier works of Booij (1985) and Nespor & Vogel (1986) I provide further evidence that English compounds are made up of prosodic words. The length of the first components must be preserved because they are identical to basic lexical…
Student assessment plays central and important role when teaching and learning. Diagnostic assessment is one way to measure the effectiveness of Implemented programs as well as students’ academic background. In this paper I will discuss the…
