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The Role of the Setting in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Ivana Jelinić This final paper presents a study of the role of the setting in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The paper examines the setting of the play as well as the scenery used in Renaissance theatre. Firstly, the accent is on the general look and the setting of the Renaissance stage in order to gain an insight into specific conditions of Renaissance staging. Secondly, the setting or more precisely two different settings – Athens and the wood in A Midsummer Night’s Dream are...
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The Status of Children's Literature in the Literary Polysystem with the Case Study of Morris Gleitzman's Short Stories
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Antonia Bakmaz The polysystem theory, developed by the Israeli literary and translation theorist Itamar Even-Zohar, describes every national literature as a polysystem consisting of multiple literary systems, which all interact and influence one another. Each system occupies a certain position within the polysystem – some are central to their national literary polysystem, others are more peripheral, and their positions can change at different points in time. Children's literature can be seen as one of...
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The Status of English in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts
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Albina Korotaj This final paper analyses the status of English in colonial and postcolonial contexts and it is divided into six chapters. It contains the explanations and the definitions of the concepts of colonialism and postcolonialism. Furthermore, it provides a general overview of the status of English during colonialism and postcolonialsm. It contains brief information regarding the circumstances of the spread of English and its varieties, the explanation of English-based pidgins, creoles and...
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The Symphony of Capitalism in Hadestown the Musical
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Martina Goluža The main aim of this paper was to put Hadestown the musical in the framework of Althusser’s theory of ideology and analyze the role of ideology in the reproduction of capitalism. By way of, primarily, the characters of Hades and Eurydice, the paper examined the correlation of desire and capitalism, the function of the Repressive and Ideological State Apparatus within ideology including the two theses on ideology proposed by Althusser, as well as the process of subject interpellation into...
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The Theatre of the Absurd in English and Russian Literature
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Marija Topolovec In this final paper I will write about the Theatre of the Absurd in two countries;
United Kingom and Russia. The plays used in this final paper are ‘Endgame’ by
Samuel Beckett and ‘Elizaveta Bam’ by Daniil Kharms. Furthermore, I will explain
the basic elements of the Theatre of the Absurd and the political reasons that led to the
creation of the Theatre of the Absurd.
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The Transformation of the Self: Analysis of the Body in Clive Barker’s Splatterpunk Fiction
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Antonija Štefek The theme of this paper is the analysis and understanding of the body in Clive Barker’s splatterpunk fiction and in which way the body and its transformations influence the perception of “the self” and the surrounding world. Since ancient times, people have created tales of horror and terror in order to explore the darker side of nature and to make sense of unknown forces in the world. Tales of darkness have gained significance within the eighteenth and nineteenth century Gothic period...
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The Use of Hashtags and Abbreviations Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
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Ivana Tabain With the rapid development of technology and popularity of the Internet and social media, the way people communicate and the language they use seem to be changing faster than ever. The research presented in this paper was conducted in order to learn about the ways teenagers and young adults in Croatia use language on the Internet; more specifically, how they use hashtags and abbreviations on popular social network sites (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter). 160 respondents provided insight into...
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The Use of Resources in Online English L2 Teaching
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Antea Čović The purpose of this study was to examine the usage of digital resources (apps/platforms) when teaching L2 English online. The participants of the research were L2 English teachers from Portugal and Croatia, who were teaching either in primary or secondary school. The first aim of the study was to identify the digital resources that are used among the teachers in online teaching and the frequency of their usage. The results showed that WhatsApp was among the most used social networking...
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The Use of Spanglish in 2015 Children's Literature in the United States
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Iva Zaplatić The paper deals with the use of Spanglish in selected works of children’s picture books,
namely in Drum Dream Girl, Mango, Abuela and Me, El Perro con Sombrero, Salsa, Little
chanclas, Maya’s Blanket and Papa Gave Me a Stick.
As a base for the analysis, the theories of John Lipski and Lourdes Torres were used,
more specifically, the three types of bilingualism and difference between intersententional
and intrasententional code-switching distinguished by Lipski, and types of strategies...
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The Use of Swear Words in English and Russian Phraseological Units
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Ella Malenica The main focus of this diploma thesis is on the use of the most common English and Russian swear words in phraseological units. That is to say, the main goal is to present English and Russian phraseological units that contain swear words, explain their meanings and classify them according to different conventional types. The corpus of 198 English and Russian phraseological units that contain swear words was collected and classified according to different conventional types suggested by...
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The Use of Vocabulary Learning Strategies among Croatian Elementary and High School Students
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Marija Okmažić The history of language teaching shows that mainly the grammar was the principal focus of second language instruction. However, recent research shows that vocabulary also plays significant role in the acquisition of the second language. Learning strategies, together with factors such as age, gender and attitudes belong to the category of individual differences which can significantly influence L2 learning. The aim of this research was to investigate the vocabulary learning strategies used by...
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The Use of Vocabulary Learning Strategies among English and German Language Learners
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Matea Miklaušić Vocabulary learning is one of the most important elements in the course of learning a foreign language. Vocabulary learning strategies form a part of general language learning strategies which can be used in order to acquire new lexical items more effectively, as well as improve learning. The goal of this thesis was to examine the type of vocabulary learning strategies (VLS) used by English and German high school learners in Croatia. In addition, differences between the two languages, as...
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