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: Conseguenze cognitive del bilinguismo; Anette Pejaković
Il presente lavoro si occupa del bilinguismo e le sue conseguenze cognitive. Offre una vista generale sui concetti del bilinguismo e le ragioni per le quali una persona decide di apprendere una seconda lingua e diventare bilingue, approcciando il mondo in un modo diverso. Il bilinguismo non offre solo la conoscenza di una seconda lingua come un vantaggio, però anche lo sviluppo cognitivo con tutti i vantaggi, come la flessibilità mentale, il livello più alto del pensiero astratto e...

: Constructing Victorian London; Zoran Kalapać
This paper tried to showcase how space can affect people. Focus was on Victorian London. It analyzed space in these books: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Hawksmoor and From Hell. London at that time had an incredible increase of population. This resulted in an incredibly gap between higher and lower class. Lower class could barely survive. Every day was a struggle to survive till next day. Space was divided and crossing the boundaries would result in...

: Construction of the Other in the U. S. Media; Fabijan Cindrić
Representation of something opposite to us has always been a very difficult task. Very often it can cause conflict, misunderstanding and misconceptions between seemingly opposite civilisations over how they perceive the world. The aim of this study was to analyse some of the notions that cause conflict between societies and how that translates into U.S. media representing the Middle East. The analysis presented in this paper was based mostly on the work of Edward Said (1977) and many other...

: Consumerism and the crisis of postmodern identities in White Noise, Fight Club and You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine; Valentina Šestak
This Master's thesis aims to present the main aspects of the ideology and the phenomenon of consumerism as discussed in the work of Jean Baudrillard, and explore the idea that postmodern identities are predominantly constructed through consumption. Thanks to the technological development and profusion of mass media, the logic of consumption now rules almost all spheres of life, from personal desires and identities to interpersonal relationships etc., and it has lead to the creation of a...

: Consumerism in Mark Ravenhill's Shopping and Fucking; Tanja Bućo
The author in this paper elaborates the postmodern view of the consumer society using Mark Ravenhill's play Shopping and Fucking as a representative text. The play depicts modern environment under the influences of consumerism and capitalism. The paper analyses the features of the modern sociey, such as an excessive consumption, materialism, exploatation of the human body, loss of protection and identity, explaining the causes and consequences of the arrival of consumerism. It also analyses...

: Contemporary Irish Society in Dermot Bolger’s The Journey Home and Emily’s Shoes; Ana Jurjević
The aim of this final paper was to analyse contemporary Irish society as presented by Dermot Bolger in the novels The Journey Home (1990) and Emily's Shoes (1992). The selected novels are analysed within the context of the representation of national and religious identity which is rapidly changing in Irish urban centers in the second half of twentieth century. This final paper focuses on personal, cultural and social reasons for the crisis of identity as well as the declining influence of...

: Contemporary Irish Women in the Novels of Emer Martin; Jana Fanjek
This final paper sets out to analyse two selected novels by Emer Martin: Breakfast in Babylon (1995) and More Bread or I’ll Appear (1999). The paper focuses on contemporary Irish women trying to find their place in the world at the end of the 20th century. The paper analyses various aspects of Irish womanhood such as the influence of the Catholic Church and an extremely patriarchal society on the formation of women’s identity and sexuality during the 20th century. The paper also attempts...

: Contemporary Portrayals of Race in Disney Animated Movies; Leona Krznar
his master’s thesis explores the complex topic of race and racial stereotypes in Disney movies. Given Disney’s significant impact on societal values and ideals, the representation of race in the studio’s films is crucial. The thesis focuses on the Renaissance and Revival eras, analyzing changes in the portrayal of racial and ethnic differences to determine if racial inclusivity has become more prominent. The paper is divided into three sections: the studio’s history, an explanation...

: Contrastive Analysis of the OED Microstructure; Sandra Janković
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a descriptive historical dictionary which is based on a growing collection of citations. Its three major editions – the OED1 from 1933, the OED2 from 1989 and the OED3 from 2017, provide the users with an insight into the English language development. Dictionary microstructure, which is the internal structure of individual entries, in the OED follows the same pattern in all editions – spelling first, followed by pronunciation, word class, usage,...

: Contrastive analysis of English and Russian somatic phrasemes; Anđela Cmrečki
This master’s thesis was written with a purpose to provide contrastive analysis of English and Russian somatic phrasemes. In the main focus of the first part of thesis is the analysis of connotational meaning of selected pairs of somatic idioms in English and Russian languages. Firstly, phraseology as a study and main characteristics of phraseological units are presented, as well as types of phraseological unit. Following part puts lexical meaning and defining somatic phrasemes in focus....

: Contrastive analysis of idiomatic expressions with body parts in English, Croatian and Italian; Antonia Bašić
The topic of this final thesis is contrastive analysis of phraseological units referring to different body parts in English, Croatian and Italian. The first part of the thesis deals with general idea of phraseological units while the second part occupies with analysis and classification of PUs. Body parts that are being analyzed are: ear(s), eye(s), finger(s), feet, hand(s), head, heart, leg(s), nose and tongue. The thesis is concluded with the table according to the degree of equivalence:...

: Conversational Implicatures in the TV Series 'Friends' and 'Only Fools and Horses'; Sara Oreč
This MA thesis deals with Paul Grice’s Co-operative principle, its conversational maxims and the flouting of these maxims. For the effective communication to be achieved, the speakers have to observe four conversational maxims by providing truthful, sufficient and relevant statement, which carries only literal meaning. However, very often these maxims tend to be violated and there are several ways of doing so, but in this paper the focus is on the case of flouting the maxims. This paper...

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