This dissertation briefly explores the Japanese values-based diplomacy from the post-Second World War II period to the present with an emphasis on Shinzo Abe’s diplomatic initiatives focused on “universal values”. The ...

For a relatively small region, home to less than two million people, the linguistic landscape of Northern Ireland is remarkably diverse. This is not the result of chance: the richness of the input to Northern Irish English, ...

African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is one of the most studied varieties of English due to the heated debates that have surrounded this variety over the years. Since the 1960s, research into AAVE has increased ...

Ellen Glasgow and Virginia Woolf are both among the most renowned female authors of the twentieth century. Being their novels labelled as feminist literature, both writers focus their attention on women discrimination on ...

The present paper gives a description of phonetic and morphosyntactic features that make Dublin English distinct from other varieties of Irish English. The English language has been present in Ireland since the twelfth ...

Travel literature has conventionally been concerned with recounting the adventures of courageous men and women in remote locations to encounter their auras and develop as individuals. Nevertheless, Colson Whitehead employs ...

This paper reviews the most prominent syntactic analyses that have been proposed in the literature for two non-standard negation phenomena: Negative Concord (NC) and Negative Inversion (NI). Linguistic theory has shown an ...

This thesis explores Toni Morrison’s ability to put into words the most dreadful and spiteful situation of the infanticide narrated in Beloved . Morrison’s skilled usage of words arouses to induce the reader to be empathetic ...

[EN] The aim of this paper is to analyse the role of mirrors in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. Specifically, I concentrate on the six scenes in which a mirror is literally or metaphorically present in order to sustain my ...

Harold Pinter’s 'The Birthday Party' and 'The Room' have very frequently been read as absurdist plays, being Martin Esslin’s 'The Theatre of the Absurd' the reference work for such interpretation. Nonetheless, the ...