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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…

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. …

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…

Communication in a foreign language, as an inevitable component of modern human life, often makes speakers experience anxiety, which may sometimes lead to avoidance of communication. This paper explores whether the students of Italian language…

Orhan Veli Kanık was a Turkish poet who is the founder of Garip Movement together with some other eminent Turkish poets. He is known for his innovative poetry with a style closer to free verse and his unique voice, and depth of emotion underlying his…

Charles Sanders Peirce, the father of American semiotics and pragmatism, insisted that educational institutions be places for learning and not merely instruction. If Peirce‘s argument is accepted, then it is necessary to redefine the role of…

Düşüncede berraklık ve açıklık arayışının önemli kriter olduğu günümüz felsefesinde şiir irrasyonelliğe kaynaklık eden esin ve ilhamın membaı, müphemliğin ve bulanıklığın ifade alanı olarak görülmektedir. Alman filozofu Martin Heidegger ise aksini…

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad ‘V.S. Naipaul’ is one of the most popular postcolonial authors of the contemporary world. V.S Naipaul is an Indo-Trinidadian British Writer that focuses on the idea of British Empire’s Colonialism. He mentions about colonial…

The significance of verb semantics and aspectual distinctions of verbs within a specific language is obvious and relevant, as much to language acquisition (Andersen and Shirai 1996; Aksu-Koc 1978 and 1998; Gôkmen 2003 and 2004; Gôkmen and Lee …

Language is alive; it lives and continuously develops. If we say this it means that discussions about language will continue as long as human beings exist. Every new thing builds up its own language and terminology. However, it is difficult to say…