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Research paper thumbnail of When Yours and Mine Are (Not) Ours: Reclaiming Personal and National Histories in Tim Butcher’s The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War

Folia Linguistica et Litteraria, Jun 20, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Exploring Topicalisation in Discourse

Applying linguistic tools on a literary text, especially if such a text is a translation, opens p... more Applying linguistic tools on a literary text, especially if such a text is a translation, opens possibilities for a range of readings and interpretations. This paper focuses on discovering traces of discourse and metadiscourse readings in chosen examples of usage of focus in order to establish whether it is possible to detect the presence of specific inter and intratextual layers, which clearly offer themselves for interpretation on the surface level.

Research paper thumbnail of Presentation of Pandemics in Literature

PALIMPSEST/ ПАЛИМПСЕСТ, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of A Welcome Breakthrough or a Connector of the (In)Compatible: Language Corpora as a Segment in English Lexicology Classes

Folia linguistica et litteraria, 2020

The necessity of studying the use of language corpora in foreign language teaching at the univers... more The necessity of studying the use of language corpora in foreign language teaching at the university level as a possible connector with contemporary scientific and research trends is intensified by the very need to bring the universities in the Republic of Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina closer to the regional and European scientific and research networks as well as to profile them within the aforementioned academic space. Efforts to set the corpus linguistic theoretical and practical posits as the basis of contemporary interdisciplinary linguistic research in the educational practices are aimed at emphasising the need to redesign some of the courses in the foreign language departments where students and teachers have expressed a desire and an interest in learning about this approach to the applied linguistic practice. The paper presents the results of a project aimed at familiarising students with the corpus studies and fundamentals of corpus linguistics, as well as with working ...

Research paper thumbnail of Kulturološka i istorijska pitanja na odsjecima stranih jezika: Niz sitnih slučajnosti

Филолог – часопис за језик, књижевност и културу, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of A Welcome Breakthrough or a Connector of the (In)Compatible: Language Corpora as a Segment in English Lexicology Classes

Folia Linguistica et Litteraria, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Exploring ESP syllabi: Some implications for further pedagogical considerations

Zbornik Instituta za pedagoska istrazivanja, 2016

The necessity of including syllabi research into current teaching practices is of utmost importan... more The necessity of including syllabi research into current teaching practices is of utmost importance due to the fact that current job markets not only dictate the need for differentiated instruction but also call for novel approaches towards glottodidactic and pedagogical goals within the tertiary educational level. The main aim of this paper is to examine the current status of English for Specific Purposes courses at one of the tertiary educational institutions in order to see whether English for Specific Purposes? practices are really implemented in language classrooms or whether they exist only on paper. The paper focuses on researching selected points in all the syllabi related to teaching English for Specific Purposes in order to establish the types of syllabi used, possible practices used prior to the syllabi design, focus in the syllabi on General English or English for Specific Purposes and the implementation of practices aimed at integrated skills. The research results call ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Book of Proceedings in Honour of Prof. Snežana Bilbija

Филолог – часопис за језик књижевност и културу, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Coronavirus Discourse of Uncertainty in the Guise of Reassurance: We Stand Together Only When We Do Not Stand Apart

Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes

The novel coronavirus communicative modalities are ever-emergent and infinitely adaptable systems... more The novel coronavirus communicative modalities are ever-emergent and infinitely adaptable systems of the new normal state of mind and play. By focusing on specificities found in the corpus extracted from three leading Bosnian and Herzegovinian (B&H) newspapers, the paper attempts to merge the predominant theoretical insight into a mixture of conceptual and critical theories of language. The focus of the paper is two-fold. The first one is targeted at testing the extracted theoretical posits on the linguistic corpora. The second aims at challenging the notions of togetherness and separateness in the B&H society by mirroring them through the prism of Covid-19 newspaper reports. The results of the corpus analysis suggest that it is still possible to draw a line between the notions in accordance with the specific geographical regions from which the data are drawn.

Research paper thumbnail of Presentation of Pandemics in Literature

Research paper thumbnail of When Yours and Mine Are (Not) Ours: Reclaiming Personal and National Histories in Tim Butcher’s The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War

Folia Linguistica et Litteraria, Jun 20, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Exploring Topicalisation in Discourse

Applying linguistic tools on a literary text, especially if such a text is a translation, opens p... more Applying linguistic tools on a literary text, especially if such a text is a translation, opens possibilities for a range of readings and interpretations. This paper focuses on discovering traces of discourse and metadiscourse readings in chosen examples of usage of focus in order to establish whether it is possible to detect the presence of specific inter and intratextual layers, which clearly offer themselves for interpretation on the surface level.

Research paper thumbnail of Presentation of Pandemics in Literature

PALIMPSEST/ ПАЛИМПСЕСТ, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of A Welcome Breakthrough or a Connector of the (In)Compatible: Language Corpora as a Segment in English Lexicology Classes

Folia linguistica et litteraria, 2020

The necessity of studying the use of language corpora in foreign language teaching at the univers... more The necessity of studying the use of language corpora in foreign language teaching at the university level as a possible connector with contemporary scientific and research trends is intensified by the very need to bring the universities in the Republic of Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina closer to the regional and European scientific and research networks as well as to profile them within the aforementioned academic space. Efforts to set the corpus linguistic theoretical and practical posits as the basis of contemporary interdisciplinary linguistic research in the educational practices are aimed at emphasising the need to redesign some of the courses in the foreign language departments where students and teachers have expressed a desire and an interest in learning about this approach to the applied linguistic practice. The paper presents the results of a project aimed at familiarising students with the corpus studies and fundamentals of corpus linguistics, as well as with working ...

Research paper thumbnail of Kulturološka i istorijska pitanja na odsjecima stranih jezika: Niz sitnih slučajnosti

Филолог – часопис за језик, књижевност и културу, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of A Welcome Breakthrough or a Connector of the (In)Compatible: Language Corpora as a Segment in English Lexicology Classes

Folia Linguistica et Litteraria, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Exploring ESP syllabi: Some implications for further pedagogical considerations

Zbornik Instituta za pedagoska istrazivanja, 2016

The necessity of including syllabi research into current teaching practices is of utmost importan... more The necessity of including syllabi research into current teaching practices is of utmost importance due to the fact that current job markets not only dictate the need for differentiated instruction but also call for novel approaches towards glottodidactic and pedagogical goals within the tertiary educational level. The main aim of this paper is to examine the current status of English for Specific Purposes courses at one of the tertiary educational institutions in order to see whether English for Specific Purposes? practices are really implemented in language classrooms or whether they exist only on paper. The paper focuses on researching selected points in all the syllabi related to teaching English for Specific Purposes in order to establish the types of syllabi used, possible practices used prior to the syllabi design, focus in the syllabi on General English or English for Specific Purposes and the implementation of practices aimed at integrated skills. The research results call ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Book of Proceedings in Honour of Prof. Snežana Bilbija

Филолог – часопис за језик књижевност и културу, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Coronavirus Discourse of Uncertainty in the Guise of Reassurance: We Stand Together Only When We Do Not Stand Apart

Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes

The novel coronavirus communicative modalities are ever-emergent and infinitely adaptable systems... more The novel coronavirus communicative modalities are ever-emergent and infinitely adaptable systems of the new normal state of mind and play. By focusing on specificities found in the corpus extracted from three leading Bosnian and Herzegovinian (B&H) newspapers, the paper attempts to merge the predominant theoretical insight into a mixture of conceptual and critical theories of language. The focus of the paper is two-fold. The first one is targeted at testing the extracted theoretical posits on the linguistic corpora. The second aims at challenging the notions of togetherness and separateness in the B&H society by mirroring them through the prism of Covid-19 newspaper reports. The results of the corpus analysis suggest that it is still possible to draw a line between the notions in accordance with the specific geographical regions from which the data are drawn.

Research paper thumbnail of Presentation of Pandemics in Literature

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