LLCE2020 Accepted abstracts

Stereotyping in the Classroom: The Aargau and the Zürich Swiss Dialects

Jessica Rohr, Purdue University, the U.S.A;     Abstract: This paper investigates speakers’ attitudes towards two Swiss German dialects and the stereotypes that arise thereof in the classroom. Stereotyping is linked to peer interactions in the classroom (Wolfe & Spencer,...
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The Acquisition of Idioms: Learning through Origins versus Extended Contexts

Wing Mun Tsui, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong;           Abstract: Idiom acquisition is often considered as one of the most challenging aspects of learning a second language primarily because the meaning of an idiom...
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The Analysis of Deixis in “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn” Polysemiotic Text

Airidas Kairys, Vilnius University in Kaunas, Lithuania;       Abstract: This paper analyses the polysemiotic text of the animated film “The Adventures of TIntin: The Secret of the Unicorn’” in terms of deixis. The Lithuanian dub and the English original are...
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The Borrowing of American Stand-up Comedy and Jocular Techniques into Taiwan

Yi-Ting Yang, National Taiwan Normal University;         Abstract: The influence of American humor has spread into Taiwan’s entertainment industry, particularly the practice of stand-up comedy, affecting the nation’s educational and sociopolitical views....
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THE DIACHRONIC OVERVIEW OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPEAN CLASSIC FAIRY TALE: ADAPTATION ISSUES

Prof. Lola Bobodzhanova & Mamleeva Alfiya, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia;     Abstract: This paper discusses the ways a classical fairy tale has been changing over the centuries. Some academicians have researched the ways how tale-tellers...
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The effects of mobile learning on EFL vocabulary acquisition

Rastislav Metruk, University of Žilina, Slovakia;       Abstract: Mobile learning (m-learning) seemed to have secured its place in the realms of language education as mobile devices can be regarded as useful, portable, accessible, and personalized tools which aid the...
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The foreigner phenomenon in the novel Material Fatigue by Marek Šindelka

Jakov Sabljić & Tina Varga Oswald, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek;         Abstract: The foreigner phenomenon has so far been discussed in various fields of humanities and social sciences. The knowledge about foreigners is not an...
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THE IMAGE OF DREAM IN THE NOVEL THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE BY MICHEL FABER

Agata Buda, Kazimierz Pulaski University of Technology and Humanities in Radom, Poland;     Abstract: The paper discusses different images of dream in the postmodern literary work The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber – the author who was born in the Netherlands, spent...
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THE IMAGE OF SHIP IN ROMANTIC POETRY: REINTERPRETING COLERIDGE’S ‘RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER’ AND SHELLEУ’S ‘VISION OF THE SEA’

Prof. Inna Makarova, Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Technology, Russia;     Abstract: The image of Ship, along with World Tree and Rosa Mundi, is rightly considered to be one of the three most popular topoi of Western European culture since the ancient times up to the...
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The internal diversification of Kashubian as a factor impeding the standardization of the language

Rafał Gołąbek, University of Technology and Humanities in Radom, Poland;    Abstract: The article addresses the problem of the internal diversification of Kashubian as a factor hindering the process of bringing about a standard variety in the language. Kashubian, a West Slavic...
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