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Different and identical worlds: "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" and "Through The Looking-Glass"
(2022-03-07)
When one thinks about the concept of children's literature, many ideas will probably come to mind related to the topic. The literary genre of children’s literature, despite seeming simple from the outside, is more complex ...
Derivation of ironical implicatures by English foreign language learners: do language proficiency and culture play a role?
(2022-03-07)
Literature on cross-cultural communication has demonstrated that communication breakdowns are more likely to occur among speakers from different cultural backgrounds (Togame, 2016). This led other scholars, such as Bouton ...
Northern Irish English: historical and sociolinguistic developments
(2022-03-08)
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, ...
Sociolinguistic issues on African American Vernacular English (AAVE)
(2022-03-08)
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 ...
Women in the spotlight: feminine characters in Ellen Glasgow's "Virginia" and Virginia Woolf's"To the Lighthouse"
(2022-03-08)
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 ...
Varieties of English: Dublin English
(2022-03-08)
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 ...
A journey towards the true face of America: the motif of the journey and the little cosmoses in "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead
(2022-03-07)
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 ...
Esther Through the Looking-Glass: Self-Image De(Con)struction in Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"
(2022-03-07)
[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: the ultimate realist
(2022-03-07)
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 ...
Ellipsis in drama and novel: a cohesive device
(2022-03-07)
Ellipsis is one of the devices contributing to the cohesion of both written and spoken discourse. It is the omission of some elements from a clause whose meaning is understood even though they fail to be phonetically ...