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Communicative Competence in the Context of Communicative Laguage Teaching with Emphasis on English in Croatia
Communicative Competence in the Context of Communicative Laguage Teaching with Emphasis on English in Croatia
Ivana Skračić
This final thesis paper is divided into six chapters. The first chapter provides an introduction and outlines the main topics of the paper and they are: communicative competence, communicative language teaching and position of the English language in the Croatian educational system and in everyday communication of the Croatian people. The second chapter deals with the communicative competence theory and provides a description of its structure. The main topics of the third chapter are: the...
Comparative Analysis of PUs with Proper Names in English and Russian
Comparative Analysis of PUs with Proper Names in English and Russian
Veronika Danilović
The topic of this master’s thesis is comparison of English and Russian phraseological units containing proper names. The corpus of 76 English PUs is taken from the English- Russian/Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms. Each PU was then found a Russian equivalent, if possible, and each PU was analysed with regards to its meaning, etymology, syntactic structure, etc. The main goals of this thesis are to find out what degree of equivalence is most common within the corpus, as well as which...
Comparative analysis of English and Russian sound systems
Comparative analysis of English and Russian sound systems
Veronika Danilović
The aim of this BA thesis was to compare English and Russian sound systems, side by side, while indicating their similarities as well as pointing out their differences. Firstly, vowels from both languages were compared and categorized. Moreover, reduction, a fundamental process which occurs in both languages in different ways, was described. Secondly, consonants were divided depending on their qualities and differences according to the voicing, manner of articulation and place of...
Comparison of English and Italian PUs containing designations of parts of the body
Comparison of English and Italian PUs containing designations of parts of the body
Maja Žunić
The main topic of this thesis is the comparison of English and Italian in terms of phraseological units that each language uses regularly. The idioms that appear in the analysis belong to a specific group of PUs: those which contain designations of parts of the body. The first part of the paper is divided into a few sections and it provides an insight into some of the theoretical concepts related to phraseology as a field of study. The next part deals with the contrastive analysis of PUs in...
Comparison of somatic PUs in English and Croatian
Comparison of somatic PUs in English and Croatian
Marta Mikac
The theme and the main task of this research was the comparison and structural analysis of somatic PUs. Somatic PUs, as well as PUs in general are very common in everyday speech and literature as well. Through this paper one can learn what types of somatic PUs are possible according to the principles of structural analysis and how PUs can be classified both in Croatian and English. Additionally, through this classification one can get an insight into which types of PUs are the most common in...
Competencias requeridas para aprobar el examen de traductor en la UE
Competencias requeridas para aprobar el examen de traductor en la UE
Tamara-Bjanka Vranješević
El trabajo pretende analizar las competencias necesarias para el trabajo de traducción dentro de la Unión Europea. Basándonos en textos elegidos de prensa española relevante y el artículo que sirve como modelo de examen de traducción en la página web oficial de la Unión Europea vamos a demostrar cuáles son las competencias que un candidato debe tener para aprobar el examen/la convocatoria, y con éxito llevar a cabo el trabajo de traducción de la UE. Los textos son traducidos del...
Compounds in Shakespeare's King Lear
Compounds in Shakespeare's King Lear
Manuela Živoder
This final paper deals with compounds that William Shakespeare used in his tragedy King Lear. Compounds are binary structures and they display head-modifier relationship, also unlike phrases, compounds tend to have their stress located on the left-hand member. English compounds can be divided into several groups: compound nouns, compound adjectives, compound verbs and phrasal compounds. Shakespeare mostly used compound adjectives or epithets in order to describe mental or physical features...
Comunicazione e le reti sociali. Il caso della lingua italiana
Comunicazione e le reti sociali. Il caso della lingua italiana
Ana Kristina Golub
Il presente lavoro tratta l'analisi della comunicazione sulle reti sociali. Lo scopo di questa ricerca era di descrivere le caratteristiche della lingua italiana che gli italiani usano sulle reti sociali. Con lo sviluppo della società si è sviluppata anche la tecnologia e così Internet è diventato parte della nostra quotidianità. Scrivere con una penna è sostituito con la tastiera, mentre il collegamento ad Internet è diventato la dipendenza umana. Secondo l'Eurostat, oggi i giovani...
Concept of Masculinity in Mafia Movies and TV Shows
Concept of Masculinity in Mafia Movies and TV Shows
Ante Vukičević
In this paper, the author highlights the importance of the concept of masculinity in mafia movies and TV shows. Firstly, the paper analyses the concept of masculinity throughout history in order to see how that concept changed and evolved. After that, author of the paper starts the analysis of the selected movies and TV shows, them being The Godfather trilogy, Goodfellas, and The Sopranos. Author of the paper analyses the importance of masculinity and family roles within the characters of...
Conceptos de muerte y sacrificio humano y sus representaciones en la cultura maya
Conceptos de muerte y sacrificio humano y sus representaciones en la cultura maya
Cvita Didović
El objetivo de presente trabajo fin de máster es acercarnos a la cultura maya con el fin de determinar las principales características del sacrificio humano y el concepto de muerte, junto con sus representaciones. La tesis consta de tres partes. La primera parte concierne a las características generales de la civilización maya y a los numerosos logros culturales que la diferencian de otras culturas, como la escritura jeroglífica y el calendario. La segunda parte introduce el concepto de...
Conceptual Love Metaphor in English Pop Songs
Conceptual Love Metaphor in English Pop Songs
Stephanie Kurpez
This MA thesis deals with metaphors, i.e. with conceptual love metaphors. There are two approaches to metaphor: the traditional one where metaphor is considered a poetic device and the cognitive one, which was studied here. Metaphor is present in thought and action. Conceptual metaphor consists of two parts; domains – source and target domain. The source domain is a more concrete concept, which is used to describe the target domain. The target domain is either an abstract or not clearly...

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