Metaphor-based calques in Croatian mass media

Readers of Croatian daily newspapers and news websites are very frequently faced with Croatian phrases which have been modelled on English templates by literal, word-for-word translation, a phenomenon known as calque. This research shows that even highly proficient Croatian speakers of English as a...

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Main Authors: Schmidt Goran, Marinić Ivana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2016-10-01
Series:ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/exell-2017-0005
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