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Dušan Gabrovšek

The paper discusses associative meaning, i.e. one existing over and above the customary denotation, specifically the type arising from a text segment larger than a single word. The idea is of fairly recent origin, focuses on negative and positive semantic... see more

Primož Jurko

Divergent polysemy is a formidable translation problem; especially in L1-L2 translation. In the paper the case of the Slovene-English pair of items namrec and namely was used to illustrate the most frequent polysemy-triggered translation errors and their ... see more

Smiljana Komar

The article examines how the function and the distribution of pragmatic markers in spoken discourse are reflected by prosodic means. The results of this preliminary analysis show that the intonation largely depends on the discourse function of a marker; o... see more

Michelle Gadpaille

The Canadian novelist Sara Jeannette Duncan (1861-1922) constructed a New Woman heroine in the fin-de- siecle novel; A Daughter of Today (1894). Written in the popular mode of the transatlantic novel; the work engages in debate on the appropriate construc... see more

Brigita Pavšic

In the Harry Potter book series there are several examples of sexist and racist stereotypes which can distort children’s understanding of reality and thus cause them to adopt prejudices and inappropriate judgments. The reason for such strong impact on the... see more

Samo Šalamon

John Coltrane; one of the most influential and important musicians and composers of the 20th century; began to inspire jazz musicians and American poets in the 1960s with the Black Arts Movement poets. His music was interpreted and used for the promotion ... see more

Tadej Bracek

The paper deals with the multilayered elegy “Westminster Abbey;” which was not given a lot of attention by Matthew Arnold’s critics. The poem is dedicated to Arnold’s life-long friend Dean Stanley; who was; like Arnold himself; “a child of light.” The ter... see more

Ana Vogrincic

Francis Coventry’s History of Pompey the Little represents one of the better known examples of today otherwise neglected eighteenth-century English novels of non human-characters. By pointing at thus far unacknowledged dimensions of the text; the article ... see more

Uroš Mozetic

The paper presents the unique oeuvre of E.E. Cummings; who claims an outstanding position in the heritage of American poetry; as a case of Bildungsdichtung. This status is largely due to his highly innovative and iconoclastic approach to poetic compositio... see more

Slavica Cepon, Mihaela Zavašnik

This article summarizes some of the findings of a large-scale study of the foreign language needs of economics students (Cepon 2007). It focuses on the rationale behind the lengthy period of disuse of general English (GE) during economics students’ first ... see more

Natalija Vid

The article focuses on prevailing translation methods used in the Soviet translation school. The main aim of the research is to analyze translation strategies; principles and methods used by Soviet translators who were forced to work in a cultural vacuum ... see more

Tomaž Onic

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