Migrations: Literary and Linguistic Aspects

Migrations focuses on the impact of migrations on English language, literature and language acquisition. Contributions to the volume bring together diverse methods and historical periods, spanning fields such as literature and cultural studies, film and theatre, general linguistics, sociolinguistics, and English language history. Migrations comprises stimulating essays on language contact, ELF, lexicology, mono-, bi-, multilingualism, exile literature, multicultural identity, migrant experience, colonialism, and war on terror. The variety of approaches underscores migration as an all-encompassing phenomenon, and provides the readers with a wide array of tools for further research. Appealing to experienced academics and students alike.

Ivo Fabijanić, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof., teaches Phonetics and Phonology, Lexicology, and Contact Linguistics at the University of Zadar. He has published several dozen papers on contacts between English, Russian and Croatian, and on some specific lexicological topics.

Lidija Štrmelj, Ph.D., Assist. Prof., teaches Intro to Linguistics, History of English and Intro to the Language of Shakespeare at the University of Zadar. She had dealt with and published on diachronic linguistics as well as some aspects of cognitive linguistics, such as conceptual metaphor.

Vesna Ukić Košta, Ph.D., is Assist. Prof. in the English department, University of Zadar. In her doctoral dissertation she explored Catholicism in the works of Irish women novelists. Her research centers on twentieth-century British and Irish fiction and poetry, and popular culture.

Monika Bregović holds a Ph.D. in Theatre Studies from the University of Zagreb. She is employed at the University of Zadar, where she teaches courses in Contemporary British Drama, Modern British Novel, and Shakespeare. She has published on performing arts, contemporary drama and theatre.