1. The Influence of English on the Language of Croatian Influencers on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok Social Media : master's thesisEna Cilar, 2023, master's thesis Abstract: The rapid spread of the English language, which is frequently referred to as a lingua franca, has had a significant impact on other languages and the peculiar language of computer-mediated communication. What is more, the Internet, social media and digital influencers are the key agents of both language change and changes in the modern society. Due to the globally growing popularity of social media influencers, the purpose of this thesis is to explore the ways in which their language use is affected by the globality of English, with a focus on Croatian influencers. Therefore, data for this paper are drawn from altogether 270 social media posts published by the eight most successful Croatian influencers on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. The research methods include linguistic, thematic and content analysis. The results reveal that the use of ‘ad hoc loanwords’ and intra-sentential code-switching are more common among Croatian influencers in comparison with outdated Anglicisms and inter-sentential code-switching. While the most frequently used loanwords among Croatian influencers belong to the categories of cyberculture and popular culture, the use of loanwords belonging to particular semantic fields is not strongly related to their thematic content categories. The importance and originality of this thesis are that it is the first study to provide new insights into the language use of Croatian influencers in relation with English as a global and leading online language. However, due to practical constraints, it is limited in terms of the research sample size and generalizability, which offers implications for further research.
Keywords: English as a global language, influence of English on Croatian, Croatian social media influencers, computer-mediated communication, loanwords, code-switching
Published in DKUM: 04.01.2024; Views: 544; Downloads: 61
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2. Lebensgeschichten im Grenzraum. Mehrsprachigkeit und Identität im steirisch-slowenischen Sprachraum : MagisterarbeitAnja Brelih, 2022, master's thesis Abstract: Sprache ist nicht nur zum Kommunizieren da, sondern sie ist auch ein Teil unserer Identität, unsere Kultur und Lebensweisen. Die Lebensgeschichten im Grenzraum haben eine lange und spannende Geschichte, die sich auch noch bis heute auswirkt. Jeder Grenzraum ist einzigartig und unterscheidet sich von anderen Grenzräumen. Wir sehen uns den Grenzraum zwischen Österreich und Slowenien an, und widmen uns besonders der Mehrsprachigkeit und Identität im steirisch-slowenischen Sprachraum. Der Grenzraum zwischen der Steiermark und Slowenien war ein sehr gemischtsprachiges Gebiet, auf beiden Seiten wurde Slowenisch und Deutsch gesprochen. Erst mit der Grenzziehung wurden die Kontakte der beiden Sprachen unterbrochen. Es wurden nicht nur sprachliche Beziehungen getrennt, sondern auch familiäre und wirtschaftliche Beziehungen. Wegen der Grenzziehung entstanden Minderheiten und zwar auf beiden Seiten. Die sprachlichen Minderheiten wurden sehr lange Zeit verschwiegen, man hörte nicht gerne die jeweils andere Sprache auf seinem Gebiet. Mit der Geschichte des Grenzraums beschäftigte man sich erst in den 1980er Jahren. Auch noch heute weiß man nicht viel über die Geschichten der Menschen, die in der Nähe von der Grenze gewohnt und mit der Grenze gelebt haben. In der Arbeit werden reale Lebensgeschichten von GrenzbewohnerInnen beschrieben, die diese Entwicklungen reflektieren. Ein sehr großes Problem war, dass die Menschen früher nicht gerne über ihre Zweisprachigkeit/Mehrsprachigkeit gesprochen haben, da diese von der Mehrheitsbevölkerung negativ bewertet wurde und sie daher ihre Zwei-/Mehrsprachigkeit verbargen. Das gilt sowohl für die slowenische Minderheit in der Steiermark als auch für die deutschsprachige Minderheit in Slowenien. Mit Hilfe von Audio- und Videointerviews bekommen wir einen praktischen Blick in die Geschichten der Mehrsprachigkeit im steirisch-slowenischen Sprachraum.
Keywords: Sprache, Grenzraum, Identität, Dialekt, Code-Switching
Published in DKUM: 02.11.2022; Views: 603; Downloads: 51
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3. Effects of social interactions on learning and developing foreign language and phonetic learning in infancyTina Dornik, 2019, master's thesis Abstract: The main aim of the master's thesis is to gather as much information as possible on early second language acquisition, types of bilingualism and language changes that occur in early second language acquisition and bilingualism. The main objective was visiting a 21-month-old child, regularly for one hour per week, for a period of one year, with whom the author communicated exclusively in English. The purpose of this was to determine the possibilities of developing the earliest type of bilingualism possible in a child living in an all Slovenian family. The fundamental research question was whether a constant but relatively short (1x per week) form of social interaction could result in development of this form of bilingualism. The author collects material through fieldwork with audio and video material and writing a journal with basic findings and further suggestions for work in this field.
Keywords: early second language acquisition, bilingualism, language, phonetics, code-switching
Published in DKUM: 29.08.2019; Views: 1283; Downloads: 80
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4. Razvoj in optimizacija motorja s feritnimi magneti za centralni pogonNejc Smolar, 2018, master's thesis Abstract: Magistrska naloga se osredotoča na delovanje in konstruiranje električnega motorja.
Poudarek je predvsem na modeliranju in optimizaciji motorja, ki deluje po principu
preklapljanja magnetnega pretoka (flux switching machine), s feritnimi magneti na
rotorju.
V prvem delu je razložen postopek modeliranja v programu Flux. Opisani so problemi, ki se
lahko pojavijo in naše rešitve za izpostavljene probleme.
V drugem delu je prikazan postopek optimizacije motorja, njegovi parametri in izračuni
modelov.
Keywords: Električni motor, električni pogon, centralni pogon, sinhronski stroj, flux
switching machine, FSM, motor s feritnimi magneti, metoda končnih elementov, MKE, modeliranje električnega motorja, Flux
Published in DKUM: 23.08.2018; Views: 1393; Downloads: 150
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6. Next generation AT-cut quartz crystal sensing devicesVojko Matko, 2011, original scientific article Abstract: Generally, AT-cut quartz crystals have a limited scope of use when it comes to high-precision measurement of very small impedance changes due to their nonlinear frequency-temperature characteristics in the range between 0 °C and 50 °C. The new method improving quartz oscillator frequency-temperature characteristic compensation is switching between two impedance loads. By modifying the oscillator circuit with two logic switches and two impedance loads, the oscillator can switch oscillation between two resonance frequencies. The difference in resonance frequencies compensates the frequency-temperature characteristics influence as well as the influence of of fset and quartz crystal ageing. The experimental results show that the new approach using the switching method highly improves second-to-second frequency stability from +/-0.125 Hz to +/-0.00001 Hz and minute-to-minute frequency stability from 0.1 Hz to 0.0001 Hz, which makes the high-precision measurement of aF and fH changes possible.
Keywords: quartz crystal, switching oscillating method, temperature characteristic compensation
Published in DKUM: 22.06.2017; Views: 1620; Downloads: 373
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7. New quartz oscillator switching method for nano-Henry range inductance measurementsVojko Matko, Karel Jezernik, 2012, original scientific article Abstract: This article introduces a new method for nano-Henry inductance measurements atthe frequency of 4.999 MHz with a single quartz crystal oscillating in the switching oscillating circuit. The real novelty of this method, however, lies in a considerable reduction of the temperature influence of AT-cut crystal frequency change in the temperature range between 0 °C and 50 °C through a switching method which compensates for the crystalćs natural temperature characteristics. This allows for the compensation of any influences on the crystal such as the compensation of the non-linear temperature characteristicsand the ageing of both the crystal and other oscillating circuit elements, as well as the reduction of the output frequency measurementerrors with the help of an additional reference frequency. The experimental results show that the switching method greatly improves the measurement of small inductance changes in the range between H and nH, allowing as a result high-precision measurements (~0.35 fH) in this range.
Keywords: quartz crystal, switching oscillating method, nano-Henry range measurement
Published in DKUM: 22.06.2017; Views: 1253; Downloads: 398
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8. High resolution switching mode inductance-to-frequency converter with temperature compensationVojko Matko, Miro Milanovič, 2014, original scientific article Abstract: This article proposes a novel method for the temperature-compensated inductance-to-frequency converter with a single quartz crystal oscillating in the switching oscillating circuit to achieve better temperature stability of the converter. The novelty of this method lies in the switching-mode converter, the use of additionally connected impedances in parallel to the shunt capacitances of the quartz crystal, and two inductances in series to the quartz crystal. This brings a considerable reduction of the temperature influence of AT-cut crystal frequency change in the temperature range between 10 and 40 °C. The oscillator switching method and the switching impedances connected to the quartz crystal do not only compensate for the crystalʼs natural temperature characteristics but also any other influences on the crystal such as ageing as well as from other oscillating circuit elements. In addition, the method also improves frequency sensitivity in inductance measurements. The experimental results show that through high temperature compensation improvement of the quartz crystal characteristics, this switching method theoretically enables a 2 pH resolution. It converts inductance to frequency in the range of 85-100 nH to 2-560 kHz.
Keywords: inductance-to-frequency, switching methods, dynamic temperature compensation of circuit elements, precision metrology
Published in DKUM: 22.06.2017; Views: 1075; Downloads: 347
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9. Sloglish or the mixing/switching of Slovene and English in Slovene blogsNada Šabec, 2009, original scientific article Abstract: The article discusses the impact of the Internet on language use and, more specifically, analyzes the frequent mixing/switching of Slovene and English in Slovene blogs (so-called Sloglish). This new discourse type, combining elements of written and oral communication, is highly interactive in nature and allows for flexibility, variation and language innovation. On the other hand, some see it as too globalized and uniform as well as a threat to the language norm. Slovene blogs are analyzed linguistically (vocabulary, syntax, spelling, punctuation) and interpreted from the sociolinguistic and pragmatic perspectives (the issue of personal, cultural and social identities of bloggers; local vs. global).
Keywords: sociolinguistics, blogs, sloglist, code switching, Slovene language, English language, identity
Published in DKUM: 30.05.2017; Views: 1914; Downloads: 440
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10. Slovene-English language contact and language changeNada Šabec, 2011, original scientific article Abstract: The paper focuses on Slovene - English language contact and the potential language change resulting from it. Both the immigrant context (the U.S. and Canada) and Slovenia, where direct and indirect language contact can be observed respectively, are examined from two perspectives: social on the one hand and linguistic on the other. In the case of Slovene Americans and Canadians the ernphasis is on language maintenance and shift, and on the relationship between mother tongue preservation and ethnic awareness. The linguistic section examines different types of bilingual discourse (borrowing, code switching), showing how the Slovene inflectional system in particular is being increasingly generalized, simplified and reduced, and how Slovene word order is gradually beginning to resemble that of English. In the case of Slovenia we are witnessing an unprecedented surge in the influence of English on Slovene, especially in the media (both classic and electronic), advertising, science, and the language of the young. This influence will be discussed on a number of levels, such as lexical, syntactic and intercultural, and illustrated by relevant examples.
Keywords: language contacts, language changes, accommodation, language shift, borrowing, code switching, identity
Published in DKUM: 16.05.2017; Views: 1956; Downloads: 228
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