The paper presents a novel approach to collaborative design of educational software with students, one that asks the participants for the formation and use of fictional characters – design alter egos – as a means towards eliciting requirements and design ideas. In order to evaluate the suggested approach, we conducted 12 collaborative design sessions with the participation of 54 undergraduate u...

Paradoxically, villainous characters in film, literature, and video games can be very popular. Previous research the traditions of cognitive media theory affective disposition has assumed that inspire positive engagement only when audiences discount villains’ immorality by focusing on traits or mitigating circumstances. Challenging this assumption, we argue with a conventionally immoral persona...

The aim of the study is to establish communicative and pragmatic features gossips. object phatic communication characters in English fictional discourse. scope article establishing gossip personages’ material for research includes entries from dictionaries dialogic fragments involving spreading special linguistic methods used include definition analysis applied respective nominative units; comp...

In Oliver Parker’s film adaptation (2002) of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance Being Earnest (1895), Cecily’s fictional diary features two Victorian paintings: John Everett Millais’ Knight Errant (1870) and Melhuish Strudwick’s Acrasia (1888). my paper, I would like to explore how these visual references contribute the viewers’ understanding plot characters, what is suggested by their application ab...

The objective of this study is to explore Alex Michaelides’ novel Silent Patient (2019) evaluate the representation impact childhood abuse on young adults’ personalities in general and main character i.e. Alicia particular. This research qualitative it analyzes text light Sandor Ferenczi’s theory trauma Sigmund Freud’s personality theory. Moreover, textual analysis used as a method keenly analy...

This study investigates Bina Sharif’s play My Ancestor’s House in the light of narratologicalnotion action as a character trait. Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan (2002) insinuates that fictional characters are propelled by two types actions: one-time actions and habitual actions. Routinized activities betray their constant qualities which relabeled static dimensions. These fossilized aspects, degrees, beg...