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The present study relies on the five-stage model of phraseme genesis (Villers [2018; 2022]) in its exploration of the birth and propagation of a phraseological unit (PU). The focus is limited to the category of idioms, which represent a subclass of PUs (Moon [1998]; Everaert et al. [1995: 4]; Mel’čuk [1995: 168]). The choice of the idiom it’s not rocket science was motivated by earlier research on phraseme genesis (Villers [2016; 2022]) which suggests that phases such as birth and p...

One of the fundamental characteristics of Dejan Aleksić’s literary works for children is play, which is why this multi-awarded children’s writer is considered a successor of Dušan Radović. Proper names in children’s literature do not often have a naming function only, but contribute to the characterization of characters or provide the reader with important information about the place where the action takes place. The aim of the paper is to show how picturesque names produce an expressive valu...

Children’s literature represents a part of the overall literary creativity in a specific language, therefore it should not be viewed as an isolated artistic phenomenon. On the other hand, literary pieces for children have self-acquired characteristics compared to other artistic texts. The subject of interest in this paper is recent linguistic research into the language and style of Serbian literature designed for children. The corpus includes linguistic works dealing with Serbian children’s l...

With the rapid development of technology and the availability of mobile devices of various types and purposes, people and their entire reality are being moved into a virtual world where the levelling of diversity and multiculturalism is emphasized and cultivated. Therefore, in sociolinguistics and other social sciences, there has been an ongoing interest in the issue of the cultural identity of digital citizens. As, at a certain point, education became almost entirely dependent on digital pla...

The subject of this paper refers to Serbian as a foreign language for specific purposes, and Serbian is considered as a foreign language for the professional needs of medical students at the beginner level of knowledge. For now, we do not have a textbook specifically intended for students of the medical profession, therefore teachers rely on didactic resources provided for general courses. The aim of this paper is to examine the lexical potential of the existing textbooks for use in the begin...

This study applies the conceptual metaphor theory to examine the metaphorical extensions of meaning of literacy-related lexicon in contemporary Serbian. The cognitive semantic analysis used the online Corpus of Contemporary Serbian together with the Sketch Engine’s Serbian electronic subcorpus (srWaC). To identify metaphorically used lexemes belonging to the source domain of literacy, the MIP procedure was applied, the target domains identified and the underlying conceptual metaphors were for...

The four new ligands, propylenediamine derivatives of phenylalanine (R2-S,S-pddbaˑ2HCl; L1-L4) and their palladium(II) complexes (C1-C4) were synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, infrared, 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy. The interactions of new palladium(II) complexes with human serum albumin (HSA) were studied by fluorescence spectroscopy. All investigated compounds can be transported to target cells by binding to HSA, but complex C4 interacts most strongly. Molecular docking si...