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The Shawian Representations of Poverty: Pygmalion and Major Barbara
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Kristijan Dobroslav Zuzija This thesis provides a comparative analysis of two plays written by the famous Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Pygmalion and Major Barbara are both set against the backdrop of early twentieth-century England. Having emigrated from Ireland to England, Shaw is uniquely predisposed to noticing the social issues plaguing British society; issues that are imperceptible to those who do not have the benefit of Shaw’s outsider gaze. This thesis analyzes the state of society presented in the...
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The Third Wave Experiment: Novel, Film and their Implementation in German High School
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Petra Podrug This paper is divided into nine sections. The first section gives a brief overview of Ron Jones, his school experiment and its historical background (Vietnam War and racial issues). The second section presents the writer Todd Strasser, his novel The Wave and its historical background (Cold War and school shootings in the USA). In the third section, the movie Die Welle and its director Dennis Gansel are introduced as well as its historical context (the period of National Socialism in Germany...
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The Transfer of CAT Tool Skills in Translation Students
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Brigita Gašparić In the last decade, CAT (Computer Assisted Translation) tools have become irreplaceable within the profession of translation. This is true because CAT tools make translation faster and easier, with features such as the use of termbases and translation memories, segmenting of the source text, quality assurance, etc. Bearing in mind the importance of CAT tools, implementing the teaching of CAT tools in the education of future translators is crucial. However, there are so many CAT tools that it...
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The Use of Machine Translation in Translating Creative Language Elements – a Qualitative Study
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Antonela Mihalić Given the rise in the quality of machine translation (MT) output in recent years and the emerging research regarding its implementation in the translation of literary texts, this paper explores the ways in which translation students use MT while dealing with creative texts. The study focuses in particular on the effects which MT has on creativity. The participants were asked to post edit one part of a journalistic text, originally written in their L1, into their L2 or L3, and to translate...
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The Use of Shakespeare's Idioms in Present-Day English
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Anton Krasnić This thesis deals with how William Shakespeare coined his words and idioms, the size of his vocabulary and some basic facts about Early Modern English, British English and American English. It also presents an analysis of several phrases and idioms from six plays penned by Shakespeare. Those idioms are split into groups according to whether or not they contain archaic vocabulary or collocates. The British National Corpus and the Corpus of Contemporary American English are used so as to...
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The absent female émigré: women's autobiographical writing from exile to exophony
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Matea Fadiga This paper explores the often-overlooked writing by female émigrés. It examines four autobiographies written about and within the condition of exile and in an acquired or non-native language, a phenomenon known as exophony. These three terms, exile, exophony and autobiography, represent the basis from which the narratives take shape and underpin all other thematical and formal components. The texts here analysed are Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language (1990),...
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The linguistic features of the English language in the TV show 'The Only Way is Essex'
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Dorotea Jakopović Southeastern English, like all the other dialects of English, has many specific attributes to it. The variation in the dialect can be found in its morphology, vocabulary, and pronunciation. This paper will deal with the linguistic features of the Southeastern English dialect used in the reality TV series The Only Way Is Essex. The show is filmed in Essex, a county in the Southeast of England. The aim of the empirical research presented in the paper is to compare the descriptions offered in...
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The question of cultural identity in Edgar Allan Poe´s tales
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Leonarda Kušić Edgar Allan Poe and his works have always been an important part of American literature and American cultural identity in terms of aestheticism and literary arts. However, little attention was given to Poe from a political and social perspective due to his subtle use of metaphors and hidden references to contemporary problems and events. Modern critics believe that because 19th-century writers were aware of the dangers of expressing personal views on social and political matters of that...
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The recurring notion of the American Dream in times of crisis
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Luka Borovac Gazibarić The following paper deals with some of the most prominent aspects of the American Dream through the eyes of three different literary protagonists. The main character of Ham on Rye voices his mistrust towards the concept of upward social mobility amidst the Great Depression, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas centres around the downfall of the counterculture movement at the beginning of the 1970s and the main character's disillusionment with the Sixties and Zone One deals with racial and social...
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The relationship between EFL learners' proficiency and speaking anxiety
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Helena Soldan This thesis investigates the relationship between EFL learners’ proficiency and speaking anxiety. Foreign language speaking anxiety is a complex phenomenon that has attracted a lot of attention, especially its relation to proficiency levels. The purpose of this research was to measure Croatian high school students’ levels of foreign language speaking anxiety and to examine whether proficiency levels would have any effect on them. Moreover, this study aimed to investigate which of the...
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The role of gaming in vocabulary acquisition
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Mislav Malević Video igre podržavaju svaki dio učinkovitog učenja pružajući: jak i zanimljiv narativ
(kontekst), namjerne interakcije (autentičnost), emocionalni angažman (motivacija), sloboda
neuspjeha (greške) i mogućnosti samostalnog odlučivanja (autonomija učenika). Učenje
poboljšano igrom pruža skup učinkovitih strategija, kao što su jezična ponavljanja i
kontekstualni tragovi, za vježbanje i korištenje vokabulara u autentičnom kontekstu. Neke od
strategija kao što...
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