Contemporary youth in South Africa are facing political, racial and economic inequalities. Despite this, ‘style surfing'' dominate youth culture both locally and internationally. Young people are influenced by current fashions and identity formations t...

This study focuses primarily on architectural and interior design in Edgar Allan Poe''s Gothic fiction. Poe''s Gothic is one of ciphers and codes, octagonal red rooms and decaying walls. A fantasia of entrapment that exceeds the ordinary limited space....

As the term omphalos appears rarely, yet periodically, Derrida would mark it as the “inaccessible topos” that it is. From early uses by Hesiod and Herodotus to describe the Oracle at Delphi in Ancient Greece it has been incorporated into a modern, Hege...

This study is concerned with the design of a separate General English syllabus for English Literature students. It aims at providing students with opportunities to undertake a specialized study of English Language and Literature. The course is structur...

Rabindranath Tagore’s contribution to different genres of literature with equal efficiency was a wonder. Attempting any one of the genres could have been enough for his establishment as a literary figure in the world platform. His thoughts on village d...

The language of education in multilingual societies has always attracted a lot of concern from educators and language planning specialists because of the complexity of language use in such contexts. The case of West Africa is particularly complicated b...

В книге рассматриваются некоторые вопросы поэтики и типологии романтической прозы Н.Готорна в контексте взаимодействия русской и американской литературных традиций на протяжении почти полутора столетий. Особый акцент сделан на типологии и эволюции обра...

This qualitative study explores the impact of a proposed Hybrid Dynamic Assessment (HDA) model on the essay writing of English Language Learners (ELL). The proposed model is rooted in Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory (SCT) concept of Zone of Proximal De...

Virtual war is omniscient. What one perceives around oneself is ‘Militarism’, ‘Peace Operation’, ‘War on Terror’, ‘Mutually-assured Destruction’ (righteously abbreviated as MAD); war in its old garb has become non-functional and is replaced by this tot...

The main focus of this book, which is of the most important and most frequent speech acts used in multicultural settings, is the speech act of apology. It investigates native Persian-speaking ESL university students' apology strategies based on Cohen a...