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Project code: 6-03-190


A CONTRASTIVE LEXICAL STUDY OF THE ENGLISH AND CROATIAN MARITIME LANGUAGE


Main researcher: PRIČARD, BORIS (90522)


Assistants
Type of research: applied
Duration from: 04/30/91. to 04/30/94.
Papers on project (total): 22
Papers on project quoted in Current Contents: 2
Institution name: Pomorski fakultet, Rijeka (112)
Department/Institute: Department of Foreign Languages
Address: Pomorski fakultet, Rijeka, Studentska 2
City: 51000 - Rijeka, Croatia
Communication
Phone: 385 (0)51-38411
Fax: 385 (0)51-36755
Summary: On the basis of the contrastive analysis of maritime English and maritime Croatian and their respective vocabularies an English-Croatian maritime dictionary will be compiled as a practical result of this study. The project also aims at unifying and standardizing the Croatian maritime terminology. The contrastive analysis is to be carried out on a representative corpus determined by the definition of the concept of "maritime language". The corpus, to be fed into computer by scanning texts and by hand, will be analyzed by methods of corpus linguistics, and the lexical database thus obtained will be combined with the lexicographic material obtained from existing bilingual dictionaries in the maritime industry and sea-related studies. The results of the above analysis will be used in determining the selection of lexical entries and in their lexicographic evaluation and editing. They will also be used for further semantic, lexicological and lexicographic studies of the English and Croatian maritime languages.

Keywords: contrastive analysis, maritime vocabulary, corpus, lexicographic entry

Research goals: The goal of the project is to study and to contrast the semantic and communicative features of maritime English as the source-language and maritime Croatian as the target-language. By achieving a higher degree of disambiguation of maritime vocabulary its is hoped that the communicative competency of mariners will be increased, thus contributing to the safety of navigation.
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