20.500.12556/DKUM-21473 A comparative analysis of adjectives in the novel The Great Gatsby and the historical text A History of Women Primerjalna analiza pridevnikov v romanu The Great Gatsby in zgodovinskem besedilu A History of Women The theme of this graduation thesis is a comparative analysis of adjectives in the novel The Great Gatsby and the historical text A History of Women. The purpose was to theoretically define and classify adjectives according to position, formation, grading, and semantic grouping; and to use this theory for a comparative analysis. Therefore, the main structure of theoretical part of the thesis is based on Biber’s Grammar of spoken and written English, and Blaganje’s Modern English Grammar. The principal object was to find out differences between adjectives in literary and non-literary texts, in this case between the novel The Great Gatsby and the historical text A History of Women. The results showed that in the selected sample of seven pages of both texts there are 51% more adjectives in The Great Gatsby than in A History of Women, and that in both texts attributive adjectives predominate. A History of Women has 1% more of attributive adjectives than The Great Gatsby. The research was carried out manually, while the statistical results are shown in graphs made by a computer. The methods used in thesis are the descriptive method and causal non-experimenting method. Tema tega diplomska dela je primerjalna analiza pridevnikov v romanu The Great Gatsby in zgodovinskem besedilu A History of Women. Namen je bil teoretično definirati in razvrstiti pridevnike, glede na položaj pridevnikov, sestavo pridevnikov, stopnjevanje pridevnikov in semantične razdelitve pridevnikov; in nato to teorijo uporabiti v empiričnem delu diplomskega dela, za primerjalno analizo. Osrednja sestava teoretičnega dela diplomskega dela temelji na Biberjevi Grammar of spoken and written English in po Blaganje Modern English Grammar. Glavni cilj je bil poiskati razlike med pridevniki v literarnem in neliterarnem besedilu, v tem primeru med romanom The Great Gatsby in zgodovinskim besedilom A History of Women. Rezultati kažejo, da je v sedmih straneh obeh tekstov 51% več pridevnikov v The Great Gatsby kot pa v A History of Women, in da v obeh tekstih prevladujejo atributivni pridevniki (imajo vlogo, da pripisujejo), s tem da je v A History of Women za 1% več takšnih pridevnikov kot pa v The Great Gatsby. Raziskava je bila narejena ročno, samo statistični rezultati so prikazani v grafih, narejeni s pomočjo računalnika. Uporabljeni sta deskriptivna in kavzalna neeksperimentalna raziskovalna metoda. position of adjectives formation of adjectives grading of adjectives semantic grouping of adjectives a comparative analysis of adjectives in The Great Gatsby and A History of Women položaj pridevnikov sestava pridevnikov stopnjevanje pridevnikov semantična razdelitev pridevnikov primerjalna analiza pridevnikov v The Great Gatsby in A History of Women true true false [J. Romanić] Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Diplomsko delo 2011-11-28 06:59:15 2012-02-28 15:16:39 2022-04-14 10:37:18 2023-12-28 03:31:55 2011 0 Celje 0 0000-00-00 NiDoloceno NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 811.111(043.2) 18975240 URN:SI:UM:DK:3UAIYRVL UNI_Romanic_Jasmina_2011.pdf UNI_Romanic_Jasmina_2011.pdf 1 D885FF86F27ABBF224C9809C1AAD764F bdf02e6d56ef268081096c4d6af38c3d513e3a9903e5b81400ce71807688b6af de86130f-7c05-11eb-bb7a-00155d0001ca 20.500.12556/dkum/141a231d-8fc3-4739-a503-2a9a62d5d9d6 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=27244 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0