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The paper deals with the ways Croatian and Serbian daily newspapers wrote about the Covid-19 pandemic at its outbreak in 2020. The aim of the paper was to identify and describe metaphors in the selected corpus of texts in order to determine the metaphorical framing used in newspapers. This corpus-based research of media discourse was based on a qualitative bottom-up analysis that started from lexical metaphors found in the texts. The results of this study suggest that a whole range of metaphorical mappings is used to frame the pandemic in the media in Croatian and Serbian. The results indicate that in both languages the same conventional metaphors were used. The pandemic was metaphorically conceptualized as an opponent, as some kind of disaster such as fire, or war. Different elements of the metaphorical mapping were made salient and foregrounded, depending on the text type. The obtained results are largely in line with previous research on using metaphors to describe the process of dealing with diseases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to report on the findings of a pilot case study that was done in order to shed more light on the application of cognitive linguistic approaches to translation studies and translation pedagogy. The study aims to identify the extent to which cognitive construal operations such as categorizing according to the prototype effects, and figure-ground reversal may be used in problem solving and decision making tasks related to meaning construction and translating the given texts. It is hypothesized that collaborative–based approach motivates students more to discuss and make use of the abovementioned cognitive construals when aiming at semantic precision in handling the texts. The results of the study indicate a decrease in errors related to word choice in the translated texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The unique properties of humour make it a valuable tool in the process of teaching and acquiring English as a foreign language, especially when more advanced courses at the university level are concerned. In the first place, using humour based on language play (involving different aspects of linguistic structure) in a variety of teaching materials can be very beneficial to helping students improve their ability with language structures. Moreover, it is important that students develop an awareness of humour that is related to culture in order to achieve better command of English. In order to determine the effect humour has on students' level of attainment, a small-scale study was conducted at the English Department, University of Novi Sad in the course Integrated Language Skills. In the study, humour was used both as a tool, to improve the learning environment, and as a resource for teaching new vocabulary or revising grammatical structures. The results of the study indicate that humour can be applied to teaching a foreign language and improving students' proficiency level. Moreover, using humour both as a tool and as a resource affected students' motivation and willingness to study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]