Comparative analysis of English-Croatian phrases

Frazeologija kao relativno mlada lingvistička disciplina proučava i opisuje frazeme nekog jezika čije značenje ne odgovara zbroju značenja njihovih sastavnica. Komparativna analiza hrvatskoga i engleskoga jezika pokazuje očuvanje elemenata kulture u jeziku. S obzirom da je frazeologija specifična za svaki jezik, postoje određene razlike koje se mogu naći u engleskim i hrvatskim frazemima. Cilj je ovoga rada analizirati engleske i hrvatske frazeme te usporednom analizom utvrditi podudarnosti i razlike. Usporednom su analizom utvrđene dvije kategorije i dvije potkategorije. Prva kategorija sastoji se od potpuno podudarnih frazema, dok se druga kategorija sastoji od frazema koji su djelomično podudarni. Druga kategorija dijeli se na dvije potkategorije. U prvoj potkategoriji nalaze se frazemi identične strukture i značenja, ali pronalaze se odstupanja u njihovim sastavnicama. Druga sadrži frazeme jednakoga značenja, no različite strukture.Phraseology, as a relatively young linguistic discipline, studies and describes idioms of a language whose meaning does not coincide to the amount of the connotation of their constituents. With the comparative analysis of the Croatian and English language the preservation of cultural elements in the language can be seen. Since phraseology is specific to each language, there are certain differences that can be found in English and Croatian idioms. The goal of this thesis is to analyze English and Croatian idioms and to compare and determine differences and comparisons. Two categories and two subcategories were established by comparative analysis. The first category consists of completely matching idioms, while the second category consists of partially matched idioms. The second category is divided into two further subcategories. The first subcategory contains idioms with identical structure and meaning, but discrepancies are found in their constituents. The second contains idioms with the same meaning but different structure