<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Readers of Croatian daily newspapers and news websites are very frequently faced with Croatian phrases which have been modelled on English templates by literal, word-for-word translation, a phenomenon known as <sc>calque</sc>. This research shows that even highly proficient Croatian speakers of English as a second language (L2) are sometimes not able to fully understand the calques used in Croatian mass media unless they are familiar with the meaning of their source template in English. The research is done by way of an experiment built in <italic>PsychoPy</italic> (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_exell-2017-0005_ref_020_w2aab3b7b1b1b6b1ab1ac20Aa">Pierce, 2007</xref>). The implications of this research could be of special interest to persons involved in designing media texts, professional and student translators, as well as to mass media consumers.</p></abstract>

Readers of Croatian daily newspapers and news websites are very frequently faced with Croatian phrases which have been modelled on English templates by literal, word-for-word translation, a phenomenon known as calque. This research shows that even highly proficient Croatian speakers of English as a second language (L2) are sometimes not able to fully understand the calques used in Croatian mass media unless they are familiar with the meaning of their source template in English. The research is done by way of an experiment built in PsychoPy (Pierce, 2007). The implications of this research could be of special interest to persons involved in designing media texts, professional and student translators, as well as to mass media consumers.

Metaphor-based calques in Croatian mass media

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Readers of Croatian daily newspapers and news websites are very frequently faced with Croatian phrases which have been modelled on English templates by...

Metaphor-based calques in Croatian mass media

Published Online: Nov 10, 2017

Page range: 15 - 40

Received: Apr 09, 2017

Accepted: May 17, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/exell-2017-0005

Keywords
calque, metaphor, comprehension, Croatian, English, mass media

© 2016 Goran Schmidt et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Metaphor-based calques in Croatian mass media

Published Online: Nov 10, 2017

Page range: 15 - 40

Received: Apr 09, 2017

Accepted: May 17, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/exell-2017-0005

Keywordscalque, metaphor, comprehension, Croatian, English, mass media

© 2016 Goran Schmidt et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
calque, metaphor, comprehension, Croatian, English, mass media