| Title: | Dramatic Present for Deception of Perception |
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| Authors: | ID Simreich, Anja (Author)
ID Jurančič, Klementina Penelope (Mentor) More about this mentor...  |
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| Files: |  MAG_Simreich_Anja_2017.pdf (1,68 MB)
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PID: 20.500.12556/dkum/20404601-9481-4e7e-a6c4-90c4132f7b76
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Master's thesis/paper |
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| Typology: | 2.09 - Master's Thesis |
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| Organization: | FF - Faculty of Arts
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| Abstract: | The main subject of my master’s thesis is to discuss the topic of English tenses and their relation to time. In order to develop a clearer understanding of the topic, four tenses (the Present simple, Present Continuous, Past simple and Past continuous) that were later used for the analysis in the empirical part, and the time and tense differences were presented theoretically. All four tenses were thoroughly described and supported with examples. For the empirical part and further analysis, the following books were used: The Front by Patricia Cornwell, In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant, and The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason. With the help of these novels, the use of tenses and their compatibility with time were analysed. Special focus was put on dramatic present. We wanted to see if the time and tense in the stories were compatible and what happened with the reader’s perception if other tenses, especially the Past simple, were used.
The results have shown that all three novels are mainly written in the Present Simple regardless of the time when the story happened. Such story where dramatic present is a predominant tense is given more sense of drama and acts more vividly. For this reason, the reader is not aware of the real time of the happening. Their perception is deceptive because time and tense are not consistent. |
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| Keywords: | time, present simple, progressive tenses, past simple, dramatic present, perception of reception, sense of drama, immediacy |
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| Place of publishing: | Maribor |
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| Publisher: | [A. Simreich] |
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| Year of publishing: | 2017 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-68251 |
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| UDC: | 811.111'366.58(043.2) |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 23688712 |
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| NUK URN: | URN:SI:UM:DK:KUVQ3UJ4 |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 06.03.2018 |
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| Views: | 1639 |
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| Categories: | FF
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