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: Women and Class in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby; Lorena Šeda
Women and social class have been a reoccurring topic for many authors over the centuries, including a renown American novelist Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Born in 1896, Francis Scott Fitzgerald left his mark in literature as one of the most famous American authors of the twentieth century to date. Although he achieved limited success during his lifetime, today he is widely regarded as an exceptional author, who earned his success by writing novels and short stories in the 1920s. In his works...

: Women and Identity Search in Speculative Fiction; Tihana Najdert
Search for identity is a common occurrence, especially in the lives of adolescents, so it is no wonder it frequently occurs in works of speculative fiction as well. The theme of soul-searching appeals to both adolescents and adults who are on the journey to actualise themselves as individuals, making it an always relevant subject. The period of adolescence is characterized by the extended need for establishing an identity that will serve as a solid basis for adulthood that awaits them....

: Women and Society in Literature of Georgian and Victorian England: A Case Study of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley; Ana Vukelić
Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley are arguably the most important female writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, while Wollstonecraft is one of the most significant contributors to the women’s rights movement, with some of her ideas expressed in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman being referenced in the modern-day laws about the rights of women. This paper will analyze the life and work of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, focusing mostly on their most...

: Women in Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Novel versus Kenneth Branagh's Film; Jelena Pataki
This paper explores how Mary Shelley used the unprecedented motif of male procreation to both acurrately describe and harshly criticize the unfavourable position of women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Inspired by Mary Wollstonecraft, her mother and also one the earliest feminist writers, Shelley depicts the inevitable negative outcomes of the strict gender division in the society. This meant that the public sphere of life was regarded as the male realm, while the private or...

: Women’s literature in the 19th century; Kathrin Majić Mazul
The paper discusses the impact of female authors in the nineteenth-century who used literature as a medium to incite changes in the unjust position of women in the society. The paper’s focus is on two women writers, Charlotte Brontë, whose novel Jane Eyre demonstrated the obstacles women had to overcome in order to gain independence and equality before entering marriage, and Kate Chopin, whose heroine in The Awakening experienced a shift in her attitude towards the role of a mother and a...

: Word Order in Old English, Middle English and Present-Day English; Ivana Ilić
As English language developed from the times of Old English (450-1100), into Middle English (1100-1500), and then to Modern English (1500-present), several grammatical and morphological changes followed the development of the language. The language advanced from the free word order in the Old English times to the fixed word order in the Modern English. Old English had the SOV pattern as the base word order with the SVO as the dominant order in main clauses. In the Middle English the...

: Word formation creativity/productivity in the language of TV series and movies; Ivan Novak
The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyse novel lexemes formed by various word formation processes, as featured in a selection of American TV series and movies. A variety of word-forming processes is explored, including affixal and non-affixal derivation, as well as more marginal word-formation processes like blending. They are discussed in the context of the distinction between word-formation productivity and creativity. Both terms are explained in the paper and exemplified with...

: Word order in EFL learners’ written production; Stana Pavić
This paper explores word order in EFL learners’ written production. The purpose of this study is to gain insight into the word order errors Croatian EFL learners make in writing, to identify the types and sources of these errors, and to analyse their role in evaluation. The paper consists of two main parts: theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part is concerned with the explanation of importance of word order in language, and language acquisition, the differences between English and...

: World Englishes: Indian English; Maja Grgić
Indian English is a diverse non-standard language variety that has existed in India since the nineteenth century. As a language of law and administration, it has gained importance among its speakers, especially those in higher education. By the end of the century, Indian English had established itself as a lingua franca through its consistent use in media and literature (the literary renaissance). Following this pattern, speakers of Indian English adapted to the demand of standard varieties...

: Wortentlehnungen in deutschen Sportnachrichten; Sara Rapp
Die bevorstehende Arbeit befasst sich mit dem Thema Wortentlehnungen in deutschen Nachrichten. Das Thema bezieht sich auf den Bereich Sport, bzw. Fußball. Die gefundenen Beispiele werden genannt und mit Hilfe von ihrem Gebrauchskontext analysiert. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, mehrere Beispiele zu untersuchen und anhand von denselben eine umfangreiche Analyse durchzuführen. Zum Schluss zeigt die Untersuchung, dass manche Wortentlehnungen in deutschen Nachrichten unterschiedlichen Gebrauch haben...

: Wortfolge in fnhd. Texten; Hrvoje Vlainić
In dieser Arbeit wird das Thema Wortfolge in der frühneudeutschen Sprache behandelt. Die frühneudeutsche Sprache wurde im 15. und 16. Jh in Deutschland gesprochen und geschrieben. Diese Arbeit wird zuerst einen geschictlichen Einblick in diese Zeit geben und danach auch die Evolution der deutschen Sprache durch die Jahrhunderte beschreiben. Weiterhin wird auch über die Syntax der frühneuhochdeutschen Sprache geschrieben, damit die Funktion der jeweiligen Satzelemente klar ist. Dies wird...

: Writing Strategies in EFL Argumentative Essays; Ivana Šplihal
The purpose of this study was twofold: to determine which strategies students utilize in their essay writing and to find any distinctions in the use of writing strategies by skilled and less skilled student writers. The sample of the current study included eight Croatian EFL undergraduate students enrolled at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, J. J. Strossmayer University, Osijek. The data collected via think aloud protocols, semi-structured interviews and student essays was...

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