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Factors of language shift from chakma to bengali: A study on the Chakma-speaking people
(Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University, 2013-12)
Language shift has become a common phenomenon in the countries where there is more than one speech community. In such countries the dominant language gradually engulfs the minor languages. As Bangladesh comprises different ...
Exploring the involvement of the characters with regards to: the pre-revolutionary atmosphere, during and after the French revolution in Dickens’ a Tale of Two Cities, Hugo’s Les Misérables and Baudelaire’s selective poems
(BRAC University, 2013-12)
Historical fictions are a genre of literature through which the writers often take an attempt
to express the social conditions of a past age while blending that historical context with their own imagination. This paper ...
Myth and meaning in Ulysses: Homer, Tennyson and Joyce
(BRAC University, 2013-08)
This is an attempt to decode the change in meanings in adaptations of Ulysses over the ages. The basis is set on the theory of myth provided by Roland Barthes. There are additional concepts that aid the argumentation as ...
A comparative analysis of Chakma and English Vowels
(BRAC University, 2013-12)
This study examines that a comparative analysis of English and Chakma vowel phonemes with
which different features of these two languages comes out. In this study the similarities and
dissimilarities of Chakma vowels ...
Several strategies of teaching vocabulary to beginner level students
(BRAC University, 2013-04-11)
The futile struggle for self-determination in Naipaul's protagonists
(BRAC University, 2013-08)
The paper is an attempt to study V.S. Naipaul’s The Mimic Men, Guerrillas and A Bend in the River through the lenses of some of the most prominent postcolonial thinkers like Frantz Fanon, Homi K. Bhabha , Simon Gikandi and ...
Making news at the sports bit
(BRAC University, 2013-12)
Nationalist Identity in Postcolonial Bengali Literature (1850-Early 1900s)
(BRAC University, 2013-11)
Identity is one of the central areas of interest in literature, particularly postcolonial literature.
Postcolonial literature and literary theories deal with the issue of identity, the dimensions of
identity and identity ...
Colonial representation in Robinson Crusoe, Heart of Darkness and A Passage to India
(BRAC University, 2013-04)
Representation can be defined as the presentation of an object, individual, idea or entity not by drawing it as it is but by “representing” it or preparing it in a new structure or a new form. The discourse of colonialism ...
Implementation of CALL in the EFL classroom : teachers' perspective and attitudes in developing CALL-based classroom
(BRAC University, 2013-08-07)
This dissertation illustrates about what teachers perspectives and attitudes towards implementation of CALL in EFL classroom of the English medium and Bangla medium secondary schools of Bangladesh. By investigating from ...