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The Role of Demotivation among English Language Learners
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Anamarija Bešlić In a globalized world, second language (L2) learning has become one of the most important aspects of education. Consequently, it is important to investigate one of the most important factors for learning a language, which is motivation. There are many studies investigating learners’ motivation; however, there are very few investigating learner L2 demotivation and demotivating factors that negatively influence learners’ progress. For this reason, this thesis aims to investigate the main...
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The Role of Water Imagery in the Modernist Novel
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Luka Antonio Gotovac This final paper deals with three modernist novels: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and Edward Morgan Forster's A Room with a View. This examination of the selected novels focuses on the role of water imagery that prevails in modernist literary fiction, generally speaking. The role of water imagery is explained as modernist authors’ response to a new sense of space at the beginning of the twentieth century. It highly contributed literary presentation of...
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The Role of the Clown in Gothic Fiction
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Blaženka Juren This paper examines the specific role of the clown in gothic fiction. Throughout deep research, there is an attempt to present its negative side in the film/literature and its great ability to exploit fear through his physical appearance, inner motives and actions as well. Moreover, this paper analyses clown as a combination of humor and horror which makes him the perfect antagonist.
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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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