Contrastive description of neologisms in the Harry Potter novels

Ovaj rad usmjeren je na pojavu i poredbenu analizu neologizama ili novotvorenica u seriji romana o Harryju Potteru, autorice J. K. Rowling. U teorijskom dijelu rada obrađuje se definicija neologije, kategorije neologizama te se daje prikaz procesa stvaranja neologizma koji će se koristiti kasnije pri analizi. Osim toga,predstavlja se ciklus romana o Harryju Potteru i J. K. Rowling kao autorica koja je stvorila ne samo knjigu, već i Harry Potterbrand. U trećem poglavlju rada, analizi neologizama, prikazani su najčešći neologizmi korišteni u seriji romana o Harryju Potteru podijeljeni u sedam potpoglavlja prema izdanjima knjiga o Harryju Potteru. Neologizmi su analizirani na četiri razine: engleski naziv i podrijetlo (izvorno ime), hrvatski prijevod i značenje riječi u romanu, i na kraju analiza procesa korištenih za stvaranje hrvatskih neologizama, prema opisu tvorbenih obrazaca, prikazanom u teorijskom dijelu ovoga rada.This thesis presents a comparative analysis of selected neologisms created by the author J.K.Rowling in her series of novels about Harry Potter. The theoretical part of the thesis describes definitions and categories of neologisms. It also presents processes of creating neologisms which will later be used in the analysis. The thesis also introduces the series of novels about Harry Potter and J.K.Rowling as a creator, not just of the books, but of the whole new brand. The third chapter analyses the most commonly used and chosen neologisms, divided into seven subchapters corresponding to the seven Harry Potter books. Each analysis consists of four parts: analysis of the English word, analysis of its Croatian translation, the meaning of the word in the novel, and the analysis of the processes used to create the selected Croatian neologisms, as described in the theoretical section of the thesis