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The Status of English in Morocco: Lessons from Spontaneous Debates in Social Media English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Abdelmajid Bouziane,Mohamed Saoudi
Morocco, a multilingual country with historical and geo-political legacies, has opened a hot debate on languages recently. Within this debate, this article investigates spontaneous comments in social media on languages in Morocco, especially adopting English as a first foreign language. It aims to bring this topic to the surface and thus discuss it in the light of research on language attitudes and
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Implicit Arguments in Ugandan English English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Bebwa Isingoma
In standard British/American English, some transitive verbs, which are ontologically specified for objects, may be used with the objects not overtly expressed (for example, leave), while other transitive verbs do not permit this syntactic behavior (for example, vacate). The former have been referred to as verbs that allow implicit arguments. This study shows that while verbs such as vacate do not ideally
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'My Name to me a Sadness Wears': Self and Other According to 'Diary by E. B. B.' English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Yana Rowland
This paper dwells on the issue of selfhood in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Diary (1831 – 1832). It explores individuation against three major presences in the poetess’s life: her father (and family), Hugh Stuart Boyd, and literature. The employed strategy of research includes a phenomenological (interspersed with feminist touches) focus on select excerpts from the Diary which reveal the writer’s concern
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Expressing Lesser Relevance in Academic Conference Presentations English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Diana Yankova,Irena Vassileva
While marking importance and relevance in academic discourse has been a widely researched topic, markers of lesser significance have so far been understudied. The article therefore focuses on some of the discoursal means of expressing lesser importance in conference presentations. The corpus of the study comprises recordings of 20 presentations in English at international linguistics conferences by
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Dismemberment of Kathleen’s Psyche in Joyce Carol Oates’s 'The Rise of Life on Earth' English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Kulamangalam Thiagarajan Tamilmani,Rathinasamy Nagalakshmi
Postmodern literary texts have been exploring characters that are whimsically strange. The tacit plots in the postmodern textual space enable the writers to construct and manifest the mental space of the characters in the textual world. The Rise of Life on Earth written by Joyce Carol Oates concocts the emotional estrangement of the protagonist, Kathleen Hennessy. Decrypting the text amplifies the
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The Mind's Eye: Picture as Narrative in Thomas Hardy's 'A Pair of Blue Eyes' English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Dimitar Karamitev
This paper focuses on Thomas Hardy’s A Pair of Blue Eyes in discussing certain peculiarities of narration. The numerous descriptions of people and scenes in the book are examined as basic building blocks used by the architecturally trained novelist to carry vital narrative information. This decision is approached by way of utilising ideas from the realms of phenomenology, cinema and photographic theory
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Counter Class and Counter Identity: Confrontations of Power in Tony Harrison's Poetry English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Younes Poorghorban
Tony Harrison is a contemporary British author whose poetry is highly influential in encountering the issue of identity and class struggles. As a working-class student, Harrison was subject to prejudice and discrimination for his working-class accent. This paper investigates two of his highly admired poems, “On Not Being Milton” and “Them & uz” from a cultural standpoint, mainly concentrated on John
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Since/Because Alternation: Insights from Clause Structures in Nigerian English English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Mayowa Akinlotan
The choice between since and because allows language users to provide rationality which is part of the cognitive functions of language. Different conditions have been shown to explicate this alternation, with little attention paid to the clausal weight. The present paper shows how expression of rationality is alternated between choosing a since or because, since both have the semantic capacity to do
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Análisis del discurso en la era digital. Una recopilación de casos de estudio – Book Review English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Eroulla Demetriou
Book details Title: Análisis del discurso en la era digital. Una recopilación de casos de estudio Editors: Belda-Medina, José and Casañ-Pitarch, Ricardo Publisher: Comares S.L., 152 pages Year of publication: 2020 ISBN: 978-84-9045-999-76
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Margaret Atwood’s "Oryx and Crake" as a Critique of Technological Utopianism English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Murat Kabak
While there are major works tracing the themes of belonging and longing for home in contemporary fiction, there is no current study adequately addressing the connection between dystopian novel and nostalgia. This paper aims to illustrate how the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood uses nostalgia as a framework to level a critique against technological utopianism in her dystopian novel Oryx and Crake (2003)
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Puritan Projections In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s "The Scarlet Letter" And Stephen King’s "Carrie" English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Maria Anastasova
It is considered that the Puritans that populated New England in the 17th century left a distinctive mark on the American culture. The article explores some projections of Puritan legacy in two American novels of different periods – Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) and Stephen King’s Carrie (1974). After establishing a connection between the Puritan writings and gothic literature, the
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Hiroshima, Mokusatsu and Alleged Mistranslations English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Boris Naimushin
This paper revisits the issue of the importance of context and critical thinking in translation and translation training by examining the linguistic controversy over the translation of the word mokusatsu in the statement of Japan’s Prime Minister Suzuki in response to the Potsdam Declaration. There is a widespread belief that the bombing of Hiroshima in August of 1945 was caused by a translation mistake
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Identity and Diasporic Trauma in Mira Jacob's "The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing" English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Jameel Alghaberi,Sanjay Mukherjee
This article explores the assimilation politics in Mira Jacob’s Novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing (2013). The intersection of memory, trauma, and mourning with reference to immigrant experience is discussed. In terms of assimilation, Barkan’s six stage model is critiqued, and diasporic ‘hybridity’ is proposed as an alternative to the notion of total assimilation. In the analysis of traumatic
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Gertrude Bonnin on Sexual Morality English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Tadeusz Lewandowski
This paper examines attitudes to sexual morality held by the Yankton Dakota author and activist Gertrude Bonnin (1876–1938), better known by her penname Zitkála-Šá (Red Bird in Lakota). Bonnin’s concerns encompass several themes: the victimization of Indian women, disintegration of Native courtship rituals, sexual threats posed by peyote use, and the predatory nature of Euro-American men. This critique
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Collocational Knowledge Uptake by University Students under Online Learning English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2021-05-24 Svetlana Danilina
The article discusses an experiment that looked into the acquisition of collocational knowledge in three university groups studying online, each subjected to different learning conditions: incidental acquisition, intentional acquisition, and intentional acquisition with an extra productive output (essay), the latter having been assessed for the amount and accuracy of target lexis usage in their texts
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London's Burning: Structuralist Readings of the Urban Inferno in the 1950's British Literature of Multi-culturalism English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Tadd Graham Fernée
This article examines a literary triangle treating a modern re-imagining of the Dantean Inferno in Caribbean migrant experience. Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners advanced a stylistic and intellectual revolution in post-World War II British literature, inspiring Colin MacInnes’ Absolute Beginners in the founding literary texts of contemporary British multi-cultural society. It followed the template
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Enhancing Student Motivation in ESP by Increasing the Level of Engagement: A Proposed Model English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Albena Stefanova,Georgi Zabunov
The article considers the opportunity to enhance student motivation in the acquisition of English for specific purposes by increasing the level of learner engagement. The authors propose to use an interdisciplinary approach by applying tools that have been approved in marketing theory and practice for the management of consumer involvement in the purchasing process and adapting them to teaching ESP
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Layered Temporalities – Between Modernism and Postmodernism - in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Adriana-Elena Stoican
The discussion approaches Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Lowland, aiming to trace the author’s positioning in relation to modern and postmodern assumptions. The argument follows the main character’s (Gauri) transnational trajectory, as she crosses frontiers in a journey that also spans large temporal dimensions. Gauri’s unconventional choices are to be interpreted in relation with her permanent interest
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The Intertextual Use of Greek Mythology in Agatha Christie’s Detective Fiction English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Tatiana Ternopol
This study investigates the intertextual use of Greek mythology in Agatha Christie’s short stories Philomel Cottage, The Face of Helen, and The Oracle at Delphi, a short story collection The Labours of Hercules, and a novel, Nemesis. The results of this research based on the hermeneutical and comparative methods reveal that A. Christie’s intertextual formula developed over time. In her early works
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Differences in Research Abstracts written in Arabic, French, and English English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Abdelmajid Bouziane,Fatima Ezzahra Metkal
The proliferation of publications, mainly the digital ones, makes it necessary to write well-structured abstracts which help readers gauge the relevance of articles and thus attract a wider readership. This article investigates whether abstracts written in three languages, namely Arabic, French and English, follow the same patterns within or across languages. It compares 112 abstracts in the areas
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On Translated Plagiarism in Academic Discourse English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Diana Yankova
Cross-language plagiarism is increasingly being accorded the interest of academics, but it is still an underresearched area. Rather than displaying linguistic similarity or identity of lexemes, phrases or grammatical structures within one language, translated plagiarism is viewed as the theft of ideas involving two languages. Two instances of translated plagiarism will be discussed - lifting a text
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Moroccan Students’ Attitudes Towards Local and Foreign Languages: The Role of Self-Directed and Language Policy Forces English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Abdelmajid Bouziane
Ths article contributes to the hot debate on language preferences and choice at schools and society at large in Morocco from an empirical perspective. It investigates the Moroccan students’ attitudes towards the languages they use in their daily interactions and those that are widely used in the Moroccan education system and attempts to explain whether these attitudes are driven by intrinsic forces
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Evaluating the Performance of a New Text Rhythm Analysis Tool English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Elena Boychuk,Ksenia Lagutina,Inna Vorontsova,Elena Mishenkina,Olga Belyayeva
The paper assesses and evaluates the performance of the ProseRhythmDetector (PRD) Text Rhythm Analysis Tool. The research is a case study of 50 English and 50 Russian fictional texts (approximately 88,000 words each) from the 19th to the 21st century. The paper assesses the PRD tool accuracy in detecting stylistic devices containing repetition in their structure such as diacope, epanalepsis, anaphora
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The 23rd Language: Official EU Status for Irish as Portrayed in the Republic of Ireland's English-Language Press English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2020-06-30 Antony Hoyte-West
Irish became the 23rd official language of the European Union (EU) in 2007. Due to a lack of qualified translators and interpreters, it is currently subject to a derogation which restricts its use in the EU institutions, a situation which aims to be remedied by 2022. Yet the Irish language represents a unique case even within the Republic of Ireland itself. Under British rule, centuries of repression
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Framing the Identity of an Ideal Primary School Teacher of English English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2020-06-30 Oleksandr Kapranov
The article presents a study that aimed to examine how primary school teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) framed the identity of an ideal EFL teacher. The specific research aim was to identify and classify frames associated with the identity of an EFL primary school teacher in the corpus of reflective essays of approximately 1000 words about an ideal EFL teacher in Norwegian primary school
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A Lost Lady: A Narrative of Manifest Destiny and Neocolonialism English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2020-06-30 Ammar Aqeeli
The greatly examined story of A Lost Lady usually depicts Mrs. Forrester’s success in meeting and adapting to the challenges of a changing world, a world characterized by materialism and self-fulfilment. However, the overlooked story, one far more disturbing than the privileged story in the text, is the narrative of oppressed groups of people of other races and the lower class. Drawing on some aspects
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The Motivation of University Students of International Relations to Learn English English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2020-06-30 Zarina Markova,Dessislava Yaneva
This article reports on the findings of a study investigating the motivation of Bulgarian undergraduates of International Relations to learn English as a second language (L2). First, we consider language learning motivation in the context of three influential theoretical developments in research on motivation. Then, we report on a small-scale survey aiming to define the motivational profile of students
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The Politics and Aesthetics of Storytelling in Diana Abu-Jaber’s "Crescent": A Strategic Implementation of an Old Folkloric Arab Tradition English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2020-06-30 Ishak Berrebbah
This paper discusses the politics and multi-functionality of storytelling in Diana Abu-Jaber’s novel Crescent (2003). I argue that the strategic use of storytelling places Crescent as a complex hybrid text that projects the nature, and development, of Arab American literature in the contemporary era. In addition to having the practice of storytelling as an apparatus to project identity in Crescent
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English Mnemonic Lexicon: Constituent Structure and Verbalization Potential English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2020-06-30 Irina Tivyaeva,Olga Syomina
This paper presents a study of the system of lexical devices used by English speakers to verbalize their personal memory experiences. The approach presented in the paper presupposes inclusion of non-narrative structures into the spectrum of language forms conveying mnemonic meanings and extends the latter so as to encompass the meanings of encoding, storage, retrieval and loss. The research is based
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Creating the Authorial Self in Academic Texts: Evidence From the Expert’s Style of Writing English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2020-06-30 Tatiana Szczygłowska
This paper reports on an analysis of stance expressions in a 439,490-word corpus of Ken Hyland’s academic prose, encompassing 64 single-authored texts from journals, edited collections and his own monographs. Using WordSmith Tools 6.0, the study aims to find out how this expert academic writer creates his authorial self through stance mechanisms. The results reveal that Hyland’s authorial participation
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Editor's Note: Garuba, I. O. (2019). The Ageing Poet and Death Anxiety: Art as Existential Therapy in John Pepper Clark’s "Of Sleep and Old Age". English Studies at NBU, 5(2), 268-283. DOI: 10.33919/esnbu.19.2.5 English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2020-06-30 Stanislav Bogdanov
For the benefit of our readers, we are publishing this Editor's Note to assert that the version published on 30 December 2019 in English Studies at NBU, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2019, is the authoritative and only version of record.Garuba, I. O. (2019). The Ageing Poet and Death Anxiety: Art as Existential Therapy in John Pepper Clark’s "Of Sleep and Old Age". English Studies at NBU, 5(2), 268-283. DOI:
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English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Teacher's Perceptions and Use of Mobile Devices and Applications English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2019-12-30 Elias Bensalem
This paper reports on a study of how a group of tertiary level EFL teachers perceived and used mobile devices in their teaching and personal learning. One hundred and fifty teachers (66 female, 84 male) from public universities in Saudi Arabia completed an online questionnaire. Results showed that the majority of participants used mobile devices and applications in their teaching and learning. Survey
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Milton’s Two-Handed Engine as a Conceptual Metaphor English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2019-12-30 Robert Tindol
One of the longstanding mysteries of English poetry is the identification of the “two-handed engine” from John Milton’s 1638 poem “Lycidas,” with which Saint Peter threatens to “strike once, and strike no more” the clergy who have been remiss in their duties. A new way of looking at the image is to read the entire passage with George Lakoff and Mark Turner’s theory of conceptual metaphors in mind.
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Difficulties in Identifying and Translating Linguistic Metaphors: A Survey and Experiment among Translation Students English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2019-12-30 Charlène Meyers
A survey of twelve translation students in 2017 revealed that they tend to find translating figurative and metaphorical language difficult. In addition, an experiment also conducted in 2017 showed similar results. During the first phase of this experiment, two trained researchers coded metaphorical items in a text from the New Scientist following the Metaphor Identification Procedure Vrije Universiteit
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Morocco e-Readiness Assessment: University Contribution English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2019-12-30 Abdelmajid Bouziane, Rachid Elaasri
The main purpose of this study is to explore the critical issues that impede an effective implementation of information communication technology (ICT) as related to higher education (HE) in Morocco. An e-readiness survey based on Harvard e-readiness assessment framework is administered in order to check the role of university in getting Morocco e-ready. First, a diagnosis is done at the level of preparedness
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Echoes of the Infernal Machine: 1940s French and English Literature of Resistance and Collaboration as a Revolution in the Mythic Imagination English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2019-12-30 Tadd Graham Fernée
This article comparatively examines French and English literature based on two novels published in 1947, Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano and Jean-Louis Curtis’ The Forests of Night. Both novels employ the mythic device to construct narratives on the twilight of the British Empire and the German occupied French Vichy regime, respectively, depicting experiences of resistance and collaboration on the
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Metadiscourse, Writer Identity and Reader Construction among Novice Arabic-Speaking ESL Writers English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2019-12-30 Christina A DeCoursey
This study used qualitative analyses to explore novice ESL writers’ concepts of writers, readers and texts. Metadiscourse studies tabulate frequencies of discourse markers in order to characterise the different ways novices and experts, native-speakers and non-native speakers, construct themselves as writers, engage with their readers, and guide readers through their text. But the picture created by
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Attitudes towards Democracy in Bulgaria: The Importance of Social Inequalities English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2019-12-30 Zhivko Minkov
This research is an attempt to examine the developmental relationship between democracy and the socioeconomic conditions in Bulgaria. The assumption is that one of the factors contributing to the negative attitude towards democracy in Bulgaria is the high level of social inequality. After discussing the relevance of studying democracy and socioeconomic conditions from a developmental perspective, the
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The Ageing Poet and Death Anxiety: Art as Existential Therapy in John Pepper Clark’s Of Sleep And Old Age English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2019-12-30 Issa Omotosho Garuba
Death anxiety refers to the human experience of death awareness and the accompanying inescapable disquiet it provokes. It is a phenomenon in human existence which has attracted substantial studies from existential and psychological perspectives. Noting that every individual experiences this anxiety at some point in life, largely as a result of the awareness of the inevitability of death, the manner
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Age and Gender Differences in Evaluating the Pedagogical Usability of E-Learning Materials English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2019-12-30 Liubomir Djalev, Stanislav Bogdanov
The purpose of the study is to examine the pedagogical usability of interactive e-learning materials for foreign language practice. It is based upon two studies of the expected between-group and within-group differences among participants in the educational process. The sample consists of two groups – lecturers and students, a total of 100 participants, each evaluating four materials specifically prepared
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Mirroring the society, mirroring its hospitals: Hyginus Ekwazi's poetry and the challenge of nation-building English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Solomon Awuzie
Anglophone African poetry has become a significant medium through which African society from the year 2000 to date is mirrored. The younger Anglophone African poets, widely referred to as the poets of the third-generation, have always used their poetry as means to respond to both historical and current socio-political circumstances that tend to distinguish Africa from the rest of the world. Their poetry
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Emotions vocabulary and the reconceptualisation of emotions in Ann Radcliffe’s “The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents” English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Elena Andonova-Kalapsazova
The article undertakes the analysis of Ann Radcliffe’s novel The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents (1797) from a history of literary emotions perspective which, I argue, yields insights into the attitudes towards emotions embedded in Radcliffe’s works. A reading of the novel from such a perspective also complements the critical studies of the artist’s engaging with the eighteenth-century
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Vicarious learning in the translation classroom: how can it influence students’ self-efficacy beliefs? English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2019-06-01 María del Mar Haro Soler
This action research study aims to analyse the ways in which vicarious learning, one of the sources of self-efficacy beliefs according to Social Cognitive Theory, can materialise in the translation classroom. To achieve this aim, a mixed methodological approach was adopted based on the following techniques: the interview, the survey, classroom observation and focus groups. Results show that vicarious
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Looking for heteroglossia and chronotope in New York and London: Pacino and Loncraine’s adaptations of "Richard III" English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Mohammad Reza Hassanzadeh Javanian
The relationship between a cinematic adaptation and its literary source has sparked scholarly debates in the field of adaptation studies. Developed by the Russian literary critic, Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975), dialogism can shed new light on the adaptation-source tie as it highlights the mutual interaction between the two sides. The present study argues that Al Pacino and Richard Loncraine’s versions
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Emotions across the essay: What second-language writers feel across four weeks’ writing a research essay English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Christina A. DeCoursey, Aliaa N. Hamad
Pekrun’s (2000, 2006) questionnaire-based model of academic emotions is widely used. However, Appraisal analysis of qualitative data offers richer detail. This study used Appraisal analysis to assess the subjective attitudes realised by students across four weeks during which they wrote an essay. Results indicate that judgments and appreciations were nearly as frequently-realised as emotions, and the
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Deen (Faith) and Donya (the Secular): Al-Ghazālī’s the “Alchemy of Happiness” English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Ali Mirsepassi, Tadd Graham Fernée
The 11th -12th century Abbasid philosopher al-Ghazālī is the center of controversy today in Western societies seeking to understand Islamic radicalism. The article initially examines the al-Ghazālī debate, split between popular images of al-Ghazālī as a fanatical enemy of rational thought, and scholarly depictions of a forerunner of postmodernism. After analyzing a principle example of the latter tendency
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Internationalisation of Higher Education in Europe - Book review English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Boris Naimushin
Book Details: Title: The Internationalisation of Higher Education in Europe Book Author: Elena Blagoeva-Hazarbasanova Publisher: New Bulgarian University, 160 pages ISBN: 9789545357954
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Attitudes towards plagiarism in academia English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Irena Vassileva, Mariya Chankova
This contribution probes into the attitudes towards plagiarism in academia as it details the results of a questionnaire study within the larger framework of a joint Bulgarian-German research project on plagiarism in academia. The questionnaire focused on investigating the scope of the notion of plagiarism as Bulgarian academics understand it and second, looking into the availability of a system of
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Issues in Bulgarian Sign Language Interpreting English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2018-12-20 Slavina Lozanova
The article discusses the current state of sign language interpreting in Bulgaria. It analyzes a range of historical, social and professional issues regarding policymaking, sign language education and methodology. Presented here are three interrelated factors influencing the interpreting practice in the country such as limited knowledge about the linguistic status of Bulgarian Sign Language, traditions
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Academic teaching in Translation and Interpreting in Russia: Student expectations and market reality English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2018-12-20 Evgeniya Malenova
The purpose of this study is to develop a framework for translator and interpreter competence in an ever-changing professional environment and provide recommendations to improve academic teaching in translation and interpreting in Russian universities in order to meet the needs of the language industry. To this end, the author discusses the results of three surveys carried out in 2017-2018. In the
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The graduation paper in Translation Studies: Nuances of critical thinking English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2018-12-20 Iulia Bobăilă, Manuela Mihăescu, Alina Pelea
Critical thinking skills play a vital role in a knowledge society and have a direct influence on the quality of teaching and learning. We aim at highlighting the way in which the graduation paper in Translation Studies can become an excellent opportunity to encourage students to test the applicability of key concepts from this field and to tackle research systematically. Based on our experience of
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Education in Localization: How language service providers benefit from educational partnerships English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2018-12-20 Carreen Schroeder
The purpose of the research was to examine whether or not partnerships between language services organizations and institutions of higher education have a positive impact on students, the educational institutions, partnering companies, and on the language services industry as a whole. We interviewed key educational institutions within the United States as well as a select few in Europe who closely
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Alice in the Wonderland of Science: Intertextual Figures in Scientific Articles English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2018-06-30 Charlène Meyers
Since numerous scientific and mathematical concepts can unsurprisingly be found in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the book itself has been a great source of inspiration for many scientists. This paper gives an overview of how Alice finds her way into scientific articles. More precisely, it discusses intertextual figures that refer to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in a corpus of 29 scientific
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Rethinking Inversion in English Syntax English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2018-06-30 Ellie Boyadzhieva
The article deals with some internal theoretical controversies in the concept and the use of the term inversion in English syntax as used in some descriptive and most pedagogical grammars of Modern English. The analysis focuses mainly on the formation of interrogative and emphatic negative structures in English by applying some basic concepts of generative grammar. The aim of the analysis is to explain
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Bridging Difference through Classroom Misunderstandings English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2018-06-30 Jason Blake
Cultural misunderstandings often arise because of the unstated assumptions or “background books” that each of us has. In the classroom, such misunderstandings can make for uncomfortable moments, but they can also lead to fruitful teaching experiences for teacher and student alike. Using a variety of examples that arose while teaching a module called “Canadian Culture” at a Slovenian university, I argue
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Female 'Weight' in the Nigerian Fiction: Iyayi's ‘Violence’ and Ibezute's ‘Dance of Horror’ English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2018-06-30 Emmanuel Okereke
This article is a masculinist examination of Festus Iyayi’s Violence and Chukwuma Ibezute’s Dance of Horror. The article despises the ideological stance of some feminists – that women are unfairly treated in society and in literature by men. It explores women’s relationship with men and contends that every woman is in control of her man and society around her. The article shows how women use marriage
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A Psychoanalytic Reading of Tanure Ojaide’s Poetry English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2017-12-31 Solomon Awuzie
Psychoanalysis as a literary theory has helped to improve understanding about “human behaviour and human mental functioning.” This is achieved through its perception of the human race as neurotic. However, with its application in poetic interpretation, poetry is perceived as an expression of displaced neurotic conflict: a consoling illusion, symptom, socially acceptable phantasy or substitute gratification
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Continental Perceptions of Englishness, ‘Foreignness’ and the Global Turn — Book Review English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2017-12-31 Ellie Boyadzhieva
Copyright © 2017 Ellie Boyadzhieva Continental perceptions of Englishness, ‘foreignness’ and the global turn Book review by Ellie Boyadzhieva is an open access article distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Permissions
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Tolerance or a War on Shadows: John Milton’s Paradise Lost, the English Civil War, and the kaleidoscopic early modern frontier English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2017-12-30 Tadd Graham Fernée
This article comprises two sections. The first analyses John Milton’s Paradise Lost in terms of the frontier dividing Providence and Chaos. Chaos is represented in violent images of the colonial world, the English Civil War, and Scientific Revolution cosmology. Providence intends to justify the ways of God in history. Milton’s retelling of the traditional Biblical Fall allegorises the 17th century
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Every Turn of the Wheel: Circular Time and Cordelia’s Revolt: from William Shakespeare to the British Enlightenment English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2017-05-31 Tadd Graham Fernée
This article argues that William Shakespeare’s King Lear anticipates core political dynamics of the English Civil War (1641-49), and philosophical tenets of the British Enlightenment in John Locke and David Hume. It analyzes three principle and competing paradigms of public authority in King Lear: theodicy, nature, and the autonomy of thought. The play is historically contextualized within the 16th