Collaborators

Snježana Babić, PhD, Senior Lecturer

Website: https://www.ffos.unios.hr/en/nastavnik/snjezana-babic/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.hr/citations?hl=hr&user=bigJkFAAAAAJ

CroRIS: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/4888

She is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of German Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek. Her research interests include phraseology, cognitive linguistics and political discourse. Within the project, she will be responsible for creating a corpus of figurative expressions in youth discourse (surveys, focus groups and interviews with primary and secondary school teachers, social media, English, German and Croatian), coordinating the collection of examples and analysing the corpus of youth discourse.

 

Ksenija Benčina, PhD

Website: https://www.ffos.unios.hr/en/nastavnik/ksenija-bencina/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.hr/citations?user=q6PAw04AAAAJ&hl=hr

CroRIS: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/46262

She is employed as a Senior Lecturer in English at the Chair of Common Courses of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek. Her research focuses on figurative language in media discourse and the application of artificial intelligence in English language teaching. Within the project, she will be responsible for creating and analysing a corpus of figurative expressions related to health in media discourse.

 

Prof. Goran Faletar, PhD

Website: https://www.ffos.unios.hr/en/nastavnik/goran-tanackovic-faletar/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.hr/citations?hl=hr&user=3VUcoVsAAAAJ

CroRIS: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/1582

He is a Full Professor at the Department of Croatian Language and Literature. His research interests include cognitive linguistics and cognitive grammar, as well as the semantic description of language systems. Within the project, he will work on systematizing the theoretical background of the research field and on processing and conducting cognitive-linguistic analyses of data in the project’s various digitized databases.

 

Vlatka Ivić

Website: https://www.ffos.unios.hr/en/nastavnik/vlatka-ivic/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.hr/citations?user=y0IrsR8AAAAJ&hl=hr&oi=ao

CroRIS: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/47308

She is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek. Her research interests include foreign language teaching methodology, modern technologies in teaching and the development of critical thinking. Within the project, she will be responsible for creating and analysing a corpus of student academic discourse.

 

Domagoj Kostanjevac

Website: https://www.ffos.unios.hr/en/nastavnik/domagoj-kostanjevac/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.hr/citations?user=3eyoiCYAAAAJ&hl=hr CroRIS: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/36025

He is an Assistant at the Department of Croatian Language and Literature. He is currently enrolled in the postgraduate university study programme in Linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek. He is a member of the Croatian Applied Linguistics Society and of the editorial board of the journal Jezikoslovlje. Within the project, he will be involved in researching political discourse from cognitive-linguistic and pragmatic perspectives, creating a digital database, carrying out dissemination activities and promoting the project by maintaining its website.

 

Asst. Prof. Goran Milić, PhD

CroRIS: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/415

Website: http://web.ffos.hr/anglistika/goran-milic

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.hr/citations?user=FoTRW9IAAAAJ&hl=hr

He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek. His research interests include cognitive linguistics and its applications, primarily in the field of translation, as well as discourse analysis, with a particular interest in media discourse and gender linguistics. Within the project, he will be responsible for researching figurative expressions in specialized language in English and Croatian, as well as collecting and analysing a corpus of specialized texts/texts for specific purposes in English and Croatian.

 

Assoc. Prof. Draženka Molnar, PhD

Website: https://www.ffos.unios.hr/en/nastavnik/drazenka-molnar/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6ypAW9AAAAAJ&hl=hr&oi=ao

CroRIS: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/417

She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek. Her research interests include English language teaching methodology and language research. Within the project, she will be responsible for creating a corpus of student academic discourse in English, analysing it and applying the research results in educational settings.

 

Assoc. Prof. Goran Schmidt, PhD

Website: https://www.ffos.unios.hr/en/nastavnik/goran-schmidt/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.hr/citations?user=Vui2bQUAAAAJ&hl=hr

CroRIS: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/9619

He is an Associate Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek. His research focuses on translation and translation studies, often from the perspective of cognitive linguistics (conceptual metaphors). Within the project, he will be responsible for researching alternative framing (reframing) in translations of media texts.

 

Assoc. Prof. Alma Vančura, PhD

Website: https://www.ffos.unios.hr/en/nastavnik/alma-vancura/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.hr/citations?hl=hr&user=-Pg5XHcAAAAJ

CroRIS: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/414

She is an Associate Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek. Her research focuses on rhetoric, pronunciation and the characteristics of varieties of English. Within the project, she will be responsible for collecting speech samples and analysing the paralinguistic phenomenon of glottalization in youth spoken discourse.

 

Assoc. Prof. Dubravka Vidaković Erdeljić, PhD

Website: https://www.ffos.unios.hr/en/nastavnik/dubravka-vidakovic-erdeljic/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.hr/citations?user=31pUlEIAAAAJ&hl=en

CroRIS: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/12037

She is an Associate Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek. Her research focuses on language contact, translation studies and figurative language. Within the project, she will be responsible for researching figurative expressions in specialized languages and the ways in which figurative terms are translated from English into Croatian in the process of secondary term formation.

 

Asst. Prof. Ana Werkmann Horvat, PhD

Website: https://www.ffos.unios.hr/en/nastavnik/ana-werkmann-horvat/ https://awerkmann.wixsite.com/ana-werkmann-horvat

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jetgduEAAAAJ&hl=en

CroRIS: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/34637

She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek. Her research focuses on experimental psycholinguistics (including behavioural and eye-tracking methods) and semantics. Within the project, she will be responsible for conducting experimental research with native speakers and processing quantitative data as part of WP2, as well as preparing research papers and presenting papers at conferences as part of WP3.