Melina Nikolić

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Multiple Hedging in the Political Interview

Nikolić, Melina; Nikolić, Maja

https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/1821-0686/2022/1821-06862215024N.pdf

This paper deals with multiple hedges with non-factive verbs and phrases in political interviews in Serbian and English. Political interview, as a specific type of political discourse, is increasingly present in the media and is becoming the main form of communication between political actors and the public. This type of interview is both a source of information for the public and a means for conducting political campaigns. Since politicians are responsible to their voters for their every action and statement, they must choose carefully what to say and how to say it. One of the important characteristics of their discourse is the hedging of propositional content, because they sometimes cannot or do not want to give an explicit answer to delicate questions. In these cases, they use one or more hedges to make their statements acceptable to the public without compromising or committing themselves. Linguistic disciplines that deal with the analysis of all types of discourse, including political and media discourse, are pragmatics and critical discourse analysis, which represent the theoretical basis of this paper. Examining political interviews in English and Serbian, our goal has been to classify and describe multiple hedges used by politicians in conversations and determine their discursive functions, as well as to perform a contrastive analysis of the use of hedges in these two languages. The results have generally confirmed the initial hypotheses about the main functions of multiple hedges.

multiple hedges, non-factivity, political interview, pragmatics, critical discourse analysis

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Baština

Razvoj istraživanja odnosa jezika i roda u anglofonoj i srpskoj literaturi

Babić-Antić, Jelena; Nikolić, Melina

https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0353-9008/2023/0353-90082359071B.pdf

Питање родних разлика представља значајну друштвену тему у многим научним областима, од социологије и антропологије до линвистике и социолингвистике. Истраживањима корелације рода са релевантним факторима посвећено је много пажње током последњих неколико деценија. У овом раду биће речи о теоријским основама утемељеним од стране неких од најистакнутијих аутора у области социолингвистике и критичке анализе дискурса. Циљ рада је да представи развој истраживања односа језика и рода, као и могуће тенденције у даљим истраживањима.

језик и род, родно осетљива језичка политика, социолингвистика, критичка анализа дискурса

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Filološki vidici 2 – Zbornik radova

Medijsko pokrivanje Ruskog olimpijskog komiteta na Olimpijskim igrama u Tokiju 2021. godine u američkim medijima

Solujić, Božana; Nikolić, Melina

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Cilj ovog rada je da se sa stanovišta kritičke analize diskursa (CDA) sagleda medijsko izveštavanje sa Letnjih olimpijskih igara koje su se održale u Tokiju 2021. godine, a fokus je na predstavljanju Ruskog olimpijskog komiteta (ROK) u američkim medijima. Odabrana su četiri novinska članka iz dnevnih listova u Sjedinjenim Američkim Državama (Njujork tajms, Los Anđeles tajms, Vašington post i Ju-Es-Ej tudej). Rad se bavi analizom ispoljavanja ideologije na jezičkom nivou preko pojmovne metonimije, presupozicija i drugih lingvističkih sredstava koja doprinose stvaranju predrasuda i ideologije. Na nivou makrostruktura, cilj rada je da ukaže na postojanje dihotomije mi-oni u medijskom izveštavanju o odnosu između Amerike i Rusije.

kritička analiza diskursa, Olimpijske igre u Tokiju, Rusija, Amerika, pojmovna metonimija, presupozicija, ideologija

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Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies

Otherness and Sharing: Space, Emotions, and Discourse in Elizabeth Von Arnim’s The Enchanted April

Parezanović, Tijana; Nikolić, Melina

https://doi.fil.bg.ac.rs/volume.php?pt=journals&issue=bells-2023-15&i=9

This paper deals with Elizabeth von Arnim’s 1922 novel The Enchanted April as an example of modernist travel narrative. The novel focuses on four different women vacationing together in Italy for a month and the present analysis aims to address how these protagonists experience otherness – of the Italian place, their own emotions, and one another. To this effect, the analysis relies on the theoretical concept of heterotopia and descriptions of Christian love. Close reading of selected excerpts, which prominently feature free indirect discourse (as a signifier of otherness in the text), reveals that otherness can be overcome through sharing and love mediated through the specific (heterotopic) spatial setting, which bears the aspects of sacredness and the potential for transformation.

The Enchanted April, fictional tourists, heterotopia, Christian love, free indirect discourse

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Црквене студије

Strategies and Procedures in Translating Religious Terminology in the Novel Čarape Kralja Petra by Milovan Vitezović from Serbian into English and French

Babić Antić, Jelena B.; Nikolić, Melina M.

https://crkvenestudije-churchstudies.com/index.php/studies/article/view/1059/914

The aim of this article is to analyse the application of strategies and procedures in translating religious terminology from Serbian source text "Čarape kralja Petra" by Milovan Vitezović into English and French. Drawing on a combination of Venuti’s and Newmark’s theories, we will attempt to identify the translation strategies and procedures and determine to what extent the translator uses domestication or foreignization, and thus creates either a translation that can be read fluently and which does not contain the specificities of the source text, or a translation that emphasizes cultural diversity and thus respects both the culture and the writer of the original text. We start from the assumption that even though all three languages belong to the Christian culture, Catholicism, Protestantism and Orthodox Christianity, their respective religious terminologies differ significantly. Therefore, the translator’s task should be to produce a translation that can be read fluently while at the same time respecting the cultural diversity in question. Our initial assumptions that the two translations are examples of different strategies have proven to be only partially true. The results show the obvious prevalence of the domestication strategy in both translations, with the exception of the non-equivalence and proper names and toponyms, which proves that the translators actually moved away from the original text.

cultural translation, translation strategies and procedures, religious terms, domestication and foreignization, Serbian language, English language, French language

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Zbornik radova sa konferencije Jezik, književnost i mediji – Language, Literature, and Media

FIFTY YEARS OF CRITICAL RESEARCH ON MEDIA DISCOURSE – plenarno predavanje

Nikolic, Melina

https://alfa.edu.rs/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Zbornik-Mediji.pdf

Media discourse has been in the focus of linguistic research for almost half a century. The publication of the seminal book Language and Control (Fowler et al., 1979) marks the beginnings of a then new field of research – Critical linguistics, today known as Critical Discourse Analysis or Critical Discourse Studies. One of the first instances of the critical media discourse analysis was the linguistic analysis of the newspaper coverage of the Salisbury (today Harare) police, in what was in 1975 still Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe), firing into a crowd of unarmed people and shooting eleven of them (Trew, 1979: 94-116). The analysis showed how the usage of different vocabulary and various grammatical structures can reflect different political views. From then on, an abundance of articles and books have been written on media discourse, covering virtually all the media – both traditional and new – with the aim of disclosing the power relations both in and behind discourse. The proponents of Critical Discourse Analysis claim that the media play a decisive role in determining and shaping public opinion and that what they give us is largely propaganda that supports an oppressive and undemocratic status quo. While some researchers focus on the analysis of the discourse and uncovering social problems, others venture further afield and suggest that Critical Discourse Analysis should also attempt to find solutions to those problems. This type of research has inevitably become interdisciplinary because the analysis of complex social problems that it undertakes requires a combination of various scientific theories and methods. Therefore, the rapid development of this discipline and the abundance of research papers should not come as a surprise. The aim of this paper is to provide a brief overview of the research that has been done during the last fifty years in the field of Critical Discourse Analysis of media texts and speech.

Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies, media discourse, language and power, interdisciplinarity

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Slovenika : časopis za kulturu, nauku i obrazovanje = časopis za kulturo, znanost in izobraževanje

Promena hronološkog fokusa pitanja kao strategija za izbegavanje odgovora u političkom intervjuu

Nikolić, Melina

https://doi.fil.bg.ac.rs/pdf/journals/slovenika/2025/slovenika-2025-11-1-3.pdf

Politički intervju, kao direktan oblik komunikacije između političara i javnosti, predstavlja važnu platformu za političare da objasne i opravdaju svoje postupke u kontekstu društvene odgovornosti prema svojim biračima i građanima uopšte. Međutim, pošto se savremeni politički intervju odvija u vidu dinamičnog konfrontirajućeg razgovora gde intervjuer agresivnim pristupom pokušava da dođe do informacija od javnog interesa i/ili značaja, političari neretko pribegavaju strategiji izbegavanja odgovora služeći se raznim jezičkim sredstvima. U ovom radu ćemo iz perspektive kritičke analize diskursa pokušati da prikažemo kako se u govoru slovenačkih, srpskih i britanskih političara promenom hronološkog fokusa može u potpunosti ili delimično izbeći odgovor na delikatno pitanje. Kako je uzeta pretpostavka da se u političkom diskursu uopšte ova strategija koristi na sličan način i sa sličnim rezultatima u različitim jezicima, analizirani su konfrontacioni intervjui na slovenačkom, srpskom i engleskom jeziku da bi se utvrdile sličnosti i razlike. Rezultati ukazuju da se, uprkos nepodudarnim gramatičkim strukturama, političari u različitim društvima koriste sličnim strategijama da bi izbegli odgovor koji bi ih mogao kompromitovati.

politički intervju, konfrontacioni diskurs, diskurzivne strategije, kritička analiza diskursa

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VI međunarodna konferencija o jeziku struke JEZIK STRUKE: PRISTUPI I STRATEGIJE – Zbornik radova

Inovacije u nastavi stranog jezika struke na matičnim fakultetima

Nikolić, Melina

https://doi.fil.bg.ac.rs/pdf/eb_ser/lsp/2025-6/lsp-2025-6-ch16.pdf

Cilj ovog rada je da kroz pregled studijskih programa osnovnih, master i doktorskih akademskih studija stranih jezika i književnosti u Srbiji pruži uvid u inovacije u nastavi stranog jezika struke koje su uvedene u periodu između dva poslednja kruga akreditacije studijskih programa na filološkim, odnosno matičnim fakultetima, kao i da ukaže na potrebu za daljim inoviranjem i osavremenjivanjem silabusa i kurikuluma u pogledu osposobljavanja budućih nastavnika stranog jezika struke kako u srednjoškolskom tako i u visokom obrazovanju. Analizirani su kurikulumi i silabusi studijskih programa svih stranih jezika koji su uključeni u nastavu u srednjem i visokom obrazovanju i izvršeno je poređenje kako između različitih programa, tako i između aktuelnih i prethodnih programa na istim fakultetima, kako bi se stekao detaljniji uvid u zastupljenost stranog jezika struke na matičnim fakultetima gde se zapravo školuju i osposobljavaju budući nastavnici stranog jezika struke. Rezultati ukazuju na svojevrstan status quo, jer i pored inovacija u metodici nastave i samoj nastavi stranog jezika struke na pojedinim fakultetima, većina studijskih programa i dalje u svojim nastavnim programima nema jezik struke, niti je on prisutan u metodici nastave.

strani jezik struke, studijski programi, metodika nastave stranog jezika, inovacije u nastavi

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