This work package explores the influence of the Mediterranean and Central European regions on the formation of national and regional identity, focusing on their representation in literature and linguistic practices.
This work package explores the influence of the Mediterranean and Central European regions on the formation of national and regional identity, focusing on their representation in literature and linguistic practices.
The aim of the research activity conducted by Nikica Mihaljević, Full Professor, and Brian D. Willems, Full Professor, is to analyse female characters in the works of Croatian women writers, with particular emphasis on their connection to the Mediterranean within a spatial and historical context. The relevance of this research lies in the fact that …
The research activity conducted by Lucijana Armanda Šundov, Associate Professor,aims to identify Croatian children’s literature authors who employ the Mediterranean space as a spatial framework in their works. While comparative studies of children’s literature—and the concept of space within it—are not new in Croatia, there has been little focus on authors from the Dalmatian/Mediterranean circle. …
The project activity conducted by Anđela Milinović Hrga, Associate Professor, aims to analyse and document Croatian-origin loanwords in English that entered the language indirectly through military, commercial, cultural, and other contacts. While Croatian as a recipient language has been studied, very few works consider Croatian as a donor language, with only one focusing on direct …
Previous studies on the linguistic and cultural relationships between Croatian and Italian have mainly focused on historical-language contacts, particularly within Romance studies, dialectology, and lexical borrowing, with an emphasis on the influence of Italian on Croatian Adriatic dialects. The project activity of Snježana Bralić, Associate Professor, is focused on culturally marked linguistic units—such as idioms, …
The research activity conducted by Sandra Lukšić, Assoc. Prof., aims to compare paremiological expressions (proverbs) in Croatian, German, and English at both the semantic and pragmatic levels. Using contrastive analysis, the study will examine similarities and differences in the proverbs of these three languages and cultures through panchronic,comparative, and contrastive approaches. Research on proverbs in …
