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The Symbol of the Female Ghost in Toni Morrison's Beloved
The Symbol of the Female Ghost in Toni Morrison's Beloved
Antonija Bičvić
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved is both a neo-slave narrative and a ghost story. With supernatural elements mixing in with everyday life of former slaves, Morrison writes about the experiences of African Americans who had to deal with traumas of slave life even when free. The story unravels in two timelines, with the main plot set in the present and constantly interrupted by fragmented memories. Those memories are usually marked with trauma, and give readers further insight into the...
The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Magical Realism and Children's Literature / Bajke barda Beedlea, magični realizam i dječja književnost
The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Magical Realism and Children's Literature / Bajke barda Beedlea, magični realizam i dječja književnost
Martina Zakić
This paper analyses J. K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard as an example of children’s literature that incorporates elements of magical realism. Rowling, a British author, is most prominent for the coming-of-age Harry Potter series of seven novels, which began in 1997 with the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, her debut novel, lasted throughout the 2000s, and continues today with related works. After the release of the final book in 2007, Rowling released The...
The Topic of Consumerism in Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho
The Topic of Consumerism in Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho
Danijela Šarić
With the ever-increasing focus on capitalism and materialistic values in Western society, emerged a new appreciation for Bret Easton Ellis’ third novel, American Psycho. A cult classic in both book and film format, this cultural phenomenon does an outstanding job of creating a unique perspective on consumerism and the ways in which it affects humans both on an individual and societal level. Therefore, the main focus of this paper is the topic of consumerism in American Psycho....
The Uncanny in H. P. Lovecraft's Short Stories
The Uncanny in H. P. Lovecraft's Short Stories
Saška Petrović
The Necronomicon is a collection of short stories by Howard P. Lovecraft, a renowned author of the horror genre and pulp fiction. Being such a prolific author of the horror genre, this paper will show that Lovecraft’s works are interspersed with various elements that give his writing an uncanny touch: specific architecture, representation of the Other, temporal displacement, imitation, and anxiety. After introducing the concept of the uncanny, the paper reviews horror as a genre and...
The Use of Adjective+Noun Collocations by English Non-Native and Native Writers: A bigram-based study
The Use of Adjective+Noun Collocations by English Non-Native and Native Writers: A bigram-based study
Benjamin Lovrić
The correct and fluent use of phraseological units, such as idioms, collocations, or phrasal verbs is what differentiates the native from the non-native speaker. The present study focuses on the use of collocations, more specifically on adjective + noun bigrams by non-native English writers. This study is based on the analysis of two corpora, one consisting of 80 essays written by Croatian undergraduate students of the English language and literature, and the other consisting of 32 essays,...
The Use of Communication Strategies and its Relationship with Willingness to Communicate and Speaking Competence in English as a Foreign Language
The Use of Communication Strategies and its Relationship with Willingness to Communicate and Speaking Competence in English as a Foreign Language
Manda Gavrić
This study examined the relationship between willingness to communicate (WTC), selfperceived speaking competence, and communication strategies (CSs) in English as a foreign language. The questions this research tries to answer are whether there is a difference between male and female students in terms of their WTC and the use of communication strategies, are WTC and the use of CSs correlated with students’ self-perceived speaking competence, and is there a relationship between...
The Use of Formal and Informal Language in Subtitling
The Use of Formal and Informal Language in Subtitling
Danijela Kelemen
The focus of this thesis is the type of audiovisual translation called subtitling, that is, the potential ways in which it could be brought closer to the audience. Subtitling and its recognition as a form of translation rather than just a means of adaptation is increasing every day, which is no wonder, considering that nowadays people do not only watch movies and series on television but on a variety of streaming devices that, naturally, tend to provide subtitles. However, this brings up the...
The Use of Narratives in Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Young Learners: Teachers' Perceptions and Practices
The Use of Narratives in Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Young Learners: Teachers' Perceptions and Practices
Petra Bence
The present paper focuses on the use of narratives as a teaching method in the young learners' EFL classrooms. It investigates the ways in which narratives can be incorporated into the lesson plans, the range of criteria for their appropriate selection and the positive effects they have on the individual learners and the classroom community. A theoretical overview of teaching narratives was offered in the first part of the paper and the additive effect of its application was tested in a...
The Use of Slang and Jargon in the TV Show Brooklyn Nine-Nine
The Use of Slang and Jargon in the TV Show Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Iva Hanuljak
The TV series Brooklyn Nine-Nine is rich in many examples of slang and police jargon due to its plot. Slang, as a type of informal speech, defines the personality traits of the characters, creates references that make the series widely recognized, contributes to its realism, and most significantly, creates humor. The humor of this series is based on three constituents: word play, characterization of characters, and publicly known references. Jargon, a type of formal speech used by specific...
The Use of Tenses in British and American English
The Use of Tenses in British and American English
Sara Steiner
American and British English are the best known and the most frequently used varieties of the English language. They differ in many aspects: pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar. The starting point for this work was the difference in the use of Past Simple and Present Perfect with particular time adverbials (yet, since, just, never, recently) in these two varieties of English. Previous research showed that speakers of American English prefer Past Simple with the above mentioned time...
The Use of the Connector 'and' in EFL Learners' Texts
The Use of the Connector 'and' in EFL Learners' Texts
Katarina Karaula
Cohesion and coherence are realized through the use of lexical and grammatical structures that imply existing logico-semantic relationship in phrases and clauses. Halliday and Hasan (1976) distinguish between grammatical and lexical cohesion in a text. The focus of this research is on coordination and the conjunctive coordinator and. According to Quirk et al.’s (1985) classification, the coordinator and can establish various semantic relationships between clausal structures: addition,...
The Utopian Ideas in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Utopian Ideas in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mocking Bird
Kristijan Kola
“Man is by nature a political animal. He who is without a city through nature rather than chance is either a mean sort or superior to man” (9) is one of the most famous quotations by the ancient Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle. Aristotle implied that social behavior lies within human nature itself and that has been proven to be true ever since the first emergence of the Homo sapiens species that formed and lived in hunter-gatherer societies. Due to human’s tendency of...

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