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English Translation of the Short Story "Tabernakul" by Jurica Pavičić
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Katarina Reljić This BA thesis aims to translate a piece of Croatian literature into the English language. Using the translation of the short story “Tabernakul” by Jurica Pavičić, the thesis addresses the process of translating a rather culturally marked piece, more specifically, the issues regarding the translation of a literary work which incorporates elements of a variant of colloquial Croatian spoken in and around the city of Split. After a brief introduction to Pavičić and the context of in...
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English-Medium Instruction at the Faculty of Engineering in Rijeka: Conditions, Commitment and Commitment and Competencies
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Elisa Velčić Janjetić In the last decades we have witnessed the widespread use of English in all domains of human achievement, among which in academia. There has been a noticeable increase in English-medium instruction (EMI) in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and beyond. The present study is concerned with EMI implementation at one of the constituent institutions of Rijeka University, i.e. the Faculty of Engineering (TFRI). A comprehensive analysis of the existing conditions, commitment and competencies...
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Epiphany in James Joyce's a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Kristijan Grgurić The main focus of this thesis is explaining the notion of epiphany in James Joyce's novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, how the epiphanies in the novel affect the development of the protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, their relation to Joyce's theory of aesthetics, as well as the development and shift in the narrative aspect of the novel. In the first part of the thesis, I will introduce the character of Stephen Dedalus, the protagonist of the novel, contextualizing his line of thought,...
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Erasmus Student's Experiences of English-Medium Instruction at the University of Rijeka
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Marina Dadasović This thesis focuses on attitudes and experiences of international students who participated in the Erasmus Programme at the University of Rijeka (UNIRI) in the academic year 2014/ 2015. English-medium instruction (EMI) at UNIRI is still rather unexplored and calls for more research and better understanding. The data presented here show that incoming students are generally satisfied with different aspects of their studies in Rijeka, including quality of courses offered, lecturers teaching and...
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Errors in Machine Translation from Croatian to English: a Corpus-based Approach
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Dario Zagorec A once heavily flawed method of translation, machine translation has improved and continues to improve every day. However, with the plethora of errors that machine translation systems make, machine translation is undeniably inferior to human translation. This paper analyzes a corpus of texts translated by Google Translate for different types of errors. The results show that Google Translate committed an abundance of lexical, morphosyntactic and stylistic errors, highlighting the limitations...
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Estetika modernoga romana. Roman Uzglavlje od trave Natsumea Sosekija u kontekstu poetike europskoga modernizma
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Ira Popović U prvome djelu prikazuju se povijesne okolnosti u kojem nastaje roman Uzglavlje od trave te se tako nastoji staviti roman u kontekst vremena. Japan se nalazi na počecima svoje modernizacije te se pojedinci na različite načine nose s njom. U vremenu gdje čovjek osjeća da se svijet oko njega ruši, mijenja i uništava, Natsume Soseki stvara “lijepi roman”, roman koji progovara o traženju i značenju umjetnosti – poezije, slikarstva, glazbe, kiparstva, kaligrafije, književnosti,......
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