journal of linguistic studies

FOREWORD
The sixth issue of the Journal of Linguistic Studies presents eleven papers belonging
to three main fields of linguistics.
The first paper works within the framework of Theoretical Linguistics: Georgeta
RAŢĂ explores introductory verbs in Modern French as a class of verbs in continuing
development mainly due to prolific authors such as Frédéric Dard.
In the following three papers, circumscribed to the field of Descriptive Linguistics,
Astrid-Simone GROSZLER and Biljana IVANOVSKA analyse some English plant
names containing an animal name and their Romanian counterparts, Igor IVANOVIĆ
analyses the impact of Anglicisms on the Montenegrin language of IT, and Andreea
VARGA analyses the orthographic adaptation of English loanwords in Romanian.
The following seven papers work within the framework of Applied Linguistics. Two
papers focus on the teaching of English: Jasna VUJČIĆ, Anica PERKOVIĆ and
Dubravka PAPA show, in their paper, that teaching English can be fun with films, while
Azamat Anvarovich AKBAROV writes about the evaluation of error analysis in the
discourse of English. Two papers focus on the teaching of legal languages: Dubravka
PAPA and Anica PERKOVIĆ share some reflections on the teaching of ESP for
International Legal English Certificate, while Ljubica KORDIĆ focuses on the teaching
of German in Law Schools. The last three papers deal with the rhetorics of politics:
Željko RIŠNER analyses the function of euphemisms in the language of newspapers and
of political speeches, while Milica VUKOVIĆ analyses the rhetorical structure of the
political interview openings, and Branka ŽIVKOVIĆ analyses the rhetorical structure of
research article abstracts in political science.
With this issue of the Journal of Linguistic Studies, we inaugurate a new section –
Research Projects. Julia HARRISON, a member of the English Profile team, writes about
this global, community programme of research that studies how people learn English,
aiming at enhancing the learning, teaching and assessment of English worldwide.
We would like to thank all authors and reviewers for their valuable contributions.
Georgeta Raţă, PhD
Editor
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