John Benjamins Publishing Company
Creating and validating a corpus-based English academic word list for physics
Abstract
In this study a Physics Research Articles Word List (PRAWL) is built, which includes the most extensively used
English vocabulary in the genre of physics research articles outside the most frequent general-purpose vocabulary. PRAWL can be of
great use in English for Physics teaching and learning. This discipline-specific academic word list was produced from a corpus of
1.25 million running words, consisting of 200...
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2024
Milica Vuković-Stamatović
John Benjamins Publishing Company
A marathon to nowhere
Abstract
The paper examines the accession is a race metaphor in the online news articles published in three Western Balkans’ countries (Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Hercegovina), in the context of their accession to the EU. Through the methodological lens of the conceptual metaphor theory and critical metaphor analysis, our study shows that the conceptualisation of the accession as a race might purport different, even mutually conflicted political stances, i.e. it can have a laudatory function...
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2023
Milica Vuković-Stamatović
,
Zdravko Babić
,
Vesna Bratić
UCL Press
'What a kitty!': Women’s physical appearance and animal metaphors in Montenegro
Animals present a common source of metaphors conceptualising humanity, and, consequently, women. The aim of this paper is to explore how women's physical appearance is conceptualised through animal metaphors in Montenegrin webpages (the. me domain). We find that women's looks are most often likened to those of a cat (kitten, kitty), fish, mare, snake, tigress, and duck. The choice of an animal that a woman is compared to and the associated characteristics reflect entrenched cultural views which...
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2021
Milica Vuković-Stamatović
,
Violeta Vujković
