Phraseology

Course code: PSL233
Course status: Elective
Course leader: Ivana Vidović Bolt
Course instructor: Ivana Vidović Bolt
Language of instruction: English
Total hours: 8S
Form of instruction: Seminar
ECTS credits: 4

Course content by topics:

Phraseology as an autonomous discipline, its development, definitions of idioms, properties of idioms, desemantization; phraseology in the narrow and broad sense; types of analysis of idioms (structural, syntactic, semantic); paradigmatic relations. Categorical meaning of idioms. Variance; Phraseological synonymy; Comparative phraseology; The origin of idioms; New phenomena in Croatian phraseology. Phraseological modifications.

Learning outcomes at course level:

– to acquire elementary phraseological terminology; – to establish basic properties of idioms and become familiar with them; – to distinguish idioms and free combinations of lexemes (syntagms); – to analyse the structural aspect of idioms and the aspect of categorical meaning; – to define idioms in semantic terms

Learning outcomes at programme level:

Reading list:

Obligatory reading: Menac, A. (2007): Hrvatska frazeologija. Zagreb: Knjigra.; Menac, A., Fink- Arsovski, Ž., Venturin, R. (2014): Hrvatski frazeološki rječnik. Zagreb: Naklada Ljevak.; Additional reading: Fink-Arsovski, Ž. (2002): Poredbena frazeologija: pogled izvana i iznutra. Zagreb: FF press.; Kovačević, B. (2012): Hrvatski frazemi od glave do pete. Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje.; Vidović Bolt, I. (2011): Životinjski svijet u hrvatskoj i poljskoj

frazeologiji I. Zagreb: Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada.

Assessment of student achievement: course attendance, active participation in the course Quality assurance mechanism: student survey