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Comparative Analysis of Gaiman's American Gods and Norse Mythology
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Nikola Ivišić This thesis provides a comparative analysis between Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods and Norse mythology. The analysis aimed to show how Gaiman employs Norse mythology, along with other mythologies from around the world, to weave a contemporary story about how America understands itself. The first part of this thesis provided a theoretical framework for understanding and defining myth in order to understand its role, purpose, and dynamic within the societies that gave birth to it. In that...
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Competencia ortográfica de alumnos croatas del español en el ejemplo de los acentos gráficos
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Iva Zelenković Esta tesis de grado trata sobre la competencia ortográfica de los estudiantes croatas de la lengua española en el ejemplo de los acentos gráficos. Los acentos gráficos en el idioma croata son un componente insignificante, mientras que en español representan el nivel de conocimiento del idioma y tienen un papel distintivo. El objetivo de la parte de investigación de la tesis es examinar cómo los estudiantes acentúan las palabras; qué tan bien aplican las reglas de acentuación, si...
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Comprendre le cancer du sein - travail terminologique
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Lucija Župan Dans le cadre de ce mémoire de master nous présentons la terminologie dans son aspect théorique et pratique, ainsi qu'un travail terminographique qui porte sur le domaine du cancer du sein. Ce mémoire est divisé en trois parties. Dans la partie théorique nous présentons la terminologie en tant que discipline et expliquons ses notions clés. La deuxième partie du mémoire comprend la présentation de la méthodologie du travail terminographique, accompagnée de quelques exemples...
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Computational and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Structural Ambiguity: The Case of Garden Path Sentences
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Petra Bajac By approaching the phenomenon of structural ambiguity from two different perspectives – psycholinguistic and computational, this thesis shows how linguistic research can have practical applications in improving NLP systems. The analyses of specific sentences show breakdowns in processing, present the possible explanations for the reasons behind them through principles such as Minimal Attachment/Late closure and Lexical preference, and demonstrate the backtracking needed in order to achieve...
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Conceptual Metaphors in Beowulf
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Josipa Lončar The thesis deals with conceptual metaphors found in Beowulf in order to explore the cultural elements reflected in Old English. The thesis aims to show which cultural values are deeply entrenched and consistent with the metaphorical system of Old English. In order to do that, metaphors were identified using the Metaphorical Identification Procedure in the first 100 lines of Beowulf. The results show that metaphorical items linked with culture may be divided into four thematic categories:...
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Conceptual integration and humor: Can learners unpack the joke?
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Martina Klarić The subject of this thesis is conceptual integration, which is a basic cognitive operation that enables people to construct meaning by integrating different concepts, and its connection to humor appreciation. More specifically, the study that was conducted for the purpose of this thesis aimed to investigate whether Croatian EFL learners would be able to understand the point of jokes in English and whether their analysis of jokes would be guided by the principle of conceptual integration...
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Conceptual motivation in visual representations of English particle verb (PV) constructions
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Mislav Nikolić The main focus of this thesis is the analysis of visualisations of English particle verb (PV)
constructions. More specifically, we were interested in the strategies Croatian and Omani English
speakers used to depict different PV constructions after being given their meaning. The first part
of the thesis provides a theoretical background to key terms and concepts of this thesis: PV
constructions, strategic construal, heavy and light verbs. The second part focuses on the results of
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Condorcetov teorem porote u suvremenim epistemičkim uvjetima
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Hana Samaržija Zagovornici epistemičkog opravdanja demokracije rado se oslanjaju na Condorcetov teorem porote, CJT. Ukratko, CJT izlaže dva opsežna argumenta. Kao prvo, većinsko glasovanje skupine neovisnih, kompetentnih i iskrenih glasača čija sposobnost pogađanja točne odluke nadilazi nasumičnost vjerojatnije će biti u pravu nego bilo koji zasebni glasač. Kao drugo, kako se broj takvih glasača približava beskonačnosti, vjerojatnost da će biti u pravu približava se sigurnosti. Međutim,...
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Conservatism in the U.S.: The Rise of a New Counterculture
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Kristijan Grgurić In the past decade, liberalism has rapidly become the leading sociopolitical ideology in America, quickly spreading its ideas to different cultural faucets, making it also the leading ideology in terms of the mainstream culture in America. Conservatism, on the other hand, has been experiencing a sociopolitical dark age, where conservative thought has less presence than ever before, and has become unwelcome in the mainstream culture, making it a potential new form of counterculture in...
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