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Polish-Studies Relationship Between Julije Benešić and Zdenka Marković

Being a private form of communication, personal letters are usually not written to be published. The act of their publication, therefore, may be considered as somewhat voyeuristic. However, since the authors of the corr…

A Room of One's Own - Within the Four Walls of Tears of Milica Janković

This paper is an analysis of the work Među zidovima (1932) of Serbian writer from the modernist period - Milica Janković (1881-1939). The article focuses on presenting the innovative elements of her prose which opposed…

What Meaning Lies Behind the Names of Emotions?

The article is devoted to the semantic motivations of the names of feelings. Its aim is to prove that when one researches semantic motivations one discovers the original associations connected with referents, in this ca…

Deconstruction of Emotional Discourse in the Novel Gullo Gullo by Miodrag Bulatović

The paper deals with a detailed analysis of the characteristics of emotional discourse, organized in a literary text, specifically in the novel Gullo Gullo by Miodrag Bulatovic. Since expressing of emotions can be verba…

The Verbal Expression of Anger in Croatian Comedy Films

The purpose of this paper was to examine the verbal expression of anger in Croatian comedy films and also to find textual and prosodic elements that provoke the viewer's exhilaration. On the textual level analysis inclu…

Destined to Melancholy. Emotions in Contemporary Women's Croatian Poetry

The aim of the study is to answer the question what the postmodern melancholy is and how it manifests itself through emotions in contemporary works of selected Croatian poets: Božica Zoko, Marijana Radmilović and Tea Gi…

Translator, Emotions and Translation

A translator, recreating the original, creatively stimulates her/his intellect, knowledge, senses and emotions. At the same time, s/he remains in agreement with the emotions presented in the original by assuming with re…

Communicating and Expressing Emotions in Polish Medieval Texts on the Basis of The Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish

The linguistic ways of presenting emotions such as communicating and expressing emotions in Polish medieval texts have not been the subject of linguistic analysis. The majority of the oldest linguistic relics are mostly…

Love, Sexuality and Punishment in Macedonian Traditional Culture

The love, sexuality and the punishment in the Macedonian traditional culture is considered on the basic of the ethnological-anthropological analyze. The analyze is based on the oral stories, ritual practices and oral po…

Thematic and Agentive Construction of strah [Fear] in Croatian Derived from the Conceptualization of Spatial Relations Coded by Preposition u [in]

This article presents an emergent model of the conceptualization of strah (Fear) in Croatian with focus on the constructions derived from the container image schema coded by preposition u (in). the semantic and syntacti…

Emotion as a Message

Emotion may be treated as a special sort of message considering that communicative function is one of the basic functions of emotion. Moreover emotion serves as a message in two ways. In one way facial expression of emo…

On Gender-Sensitive Language

This paper focuses on changes in Croatian language that either have happened or are possible to happen in order that male dominance in language and gender inequality are reduced. The research concentrates on the use of…

Semantic Development of the Noun "Humor" in Polish Language. Lexicographic Overview

In the past fifteen years, the Polish linguistics faced a significant increase of interest in research into positive emotions: their naming, the ways in which they are expressed and manifested in the texts. The largest…

Representation of Love in Andrić's Novel The Bridge on the Drina

Starting with Erich Fromm's thesis on love from his seminal work The Art of Loving (1956), the paper tries to show the way in which Fromm's psycho-biological concept of love is represented differently in different histo…

Beyond Literal Understanding of Emotions

The meaning of emotions and the meaning of words- emotions' labels are described in studiem about emotions. Although there are some differences between these two domains, most studies about understanding emotions use le…

Nostalgia as [Un]Serious Emotion: Games and Toys in Everyday Narrative Practices about Childhood

This paper analyzes the contemporary context of nostalgia, recollection and narration of childhood events on the basis of field notes collected by means of different methodological techniques. The narrative quest for th…

Methods of Expressing Liking Through the Media [on the Example of Facebook.com]

The main theme of the article centers on the methods of expressing liking which is understood as a positive attitude towards another person functioning in the Internet. The aim of the paper is to show and discuss elemen…

Emotive-Evaluative Acts in the Online Discourse - on the Example of Comments on Allegro

This paper investigates comments left by users of Allegro - an on-line auction website. With the use of pragmalinguistics, author treats the e-commerce site comments as emotive-evaluative act directed towards both speci…

Emotions in Public Discourse

In political discourse, the recipient is collective and intentional. Being a part of public discourse, political discourse abounds in speech acts that have emotive-evaluative function. In the prezent paper, the Author d…

"Who is Crazy in this Country?" Verbalizing Emotions in Political Discourse

In the center of our interest is the use of emotion-marked linguistic resources in the public discourse, and more specifically in the Croatian political public sphere. As politics is traditionally considered a place fro…

Expressive Illocutionary Acts in a Political Talk Show

This article focuses on the pragmatic dimension of language phenomena with respect to the expressive and emotional aspect of Slovak and German. The aim is to monitor the use of language and the relationship to language…