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This paper tries to give an insight into political reasoning through the theoretic framework of cognitive linguistics. Through an analysis of conceptual metaphors used in the corpus of inaugural speeches of American presidents, we will show how the…

This paper attempts to trace how Shakespeare‘s Othello reflects the deeprooted Eurocentric ideology of the Elizabethan people and show how such views created distinctions like self vs. other, master vs. slave, civilized vs. savage, white vs. …

Shakespeare is a most active participant in so-called intercultural theatre. This essay tries to determine the position of Shakespeare in intercultural discussions which consist of the two important issues: cultural equality and authenticity. Most of…

Sezai Karakoç, has been one of the leading poets of the modern Turkish poetry since 1950. However, he is not only a poet with his intellectual identity but also the idea of resurrection has an important place in the history of the Turkish thought.…

Ovaj rad istraņuje zavisne veze reĦeniĦnih Ħlanova u arapskom jeziku primarno iskazane promjenom flektivnih formi i interpretira ih u kontekstu tradicionalnog, izvorno arapskog koncepta zavisnosti reĦeniĦnih elemenata ili konstituenata, ali i u…

The theoretical approach the paper is based on is cognitive lexical semantics and its view that a word’s conventional meaning is a just a prompt for the process of meaning construction. The paper looks at the problem of deciding on the right…

In norm-dependent countries, where English is being taught as a foreign language, the main attention is mostly being paid to the native speaker teacher of English language as the ultimate teaching resource. In such countries, native speaker‘s norm…

In social cognitive theory, teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs have been associated with positive teaching behaviours and student outcomes (Bandura, 1997). Since efficacy affects the effort teachers invest in teaching, the goals they set and their…

Today the Media is almost inseparable from our daily lives. For the new generations what is seen on the screen is more relevant than what is seen outside. The Media has also become one of the main components in second language acquisition (SLA) and…

With the advancement in science and technology everything has taken a different shape. Reading literature that was once considered to be a major source of entertainment and knowledge has now been transformed into screen literature by television,…