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Papers by Halil Bashota

Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022

The purpose of this paper was to demonstrate how H G Wells' novella, The Time Machine examined th... more The purpose of this paper was to demonstrate how H G Wells' novella, The Time Machine examined the contemporary social, cultural, and political environment via a posthumanist perspective of far future. Adopting a qualitative research design, the study emphasized on critical and analytical techniques in the novella. The study was carried out with close reading method of the text, identifying sections which relate to posthumanism and the impact of technology in futuristic perspective. The data so identified was analyzed with the view to verify the theoretical underpinnings and the posthumanist perspective and examine the narrative rolling between myth and metaphor. The findings revealed how tremendous upheavals of the Industrial Revolution in the early eighteenth century influenced several aspects of society. It was evident that Wells was portraying and analyzing the futuristic and experimental changes that society was confronting, including technological advancement, its role, societal divisions, and inequality as society changes from Victorian England to a future time in 802,701. Implications for Research and Practice. The findings imply that despite the futuristic ambition to project technology to achieve innovative results, it may also replace humans; therefore, we should still de-mask that superstitious ambition to the extent that its role may still be restricted to supplementary means, whether personal or societal, and as tools that work for humans`benefit in proving their material goods. The study also implies how philosophical and scientific conception on the excessing role of the technology can serve for the human benefit.

Graphic novels “Wrinkles” and “Special Exits”- a comparative study, 2021

This paper examines a comparative analysis of two graphic novels: "Wrinkles" and "Special Exits",... more This paper examines a comparative analysis of two graphic novels: "Wrinkles" and "Special Exits", which consist of similarities as in style, theme and point of view, as well as the overall portrayal of main characters, Emilio and Rachel. Besides that, those two graphic novels have so many similarities; they also have parallels which differentiate them. The assisted care facility vs. home care. Wrinkles shows the life of the main character Emilio, with Alzheimer's in an assisted care facility, and the other novel portrays life experience at home. The other parallel pertain to the parent-child relationship; Wrinkles begins with the admission of Emilio to assisted care, upon the demand of his son, while, Special Exits portrays the relationship between a mother and daughter.

The purpose of this paper was to demonstrate how H G Wells' novella, The Time Machine examined th... more The purpose of this paper was to demonstrate how H G Wells' novella, The Time Machine examined the contemporary social, cultural, and political environment via a posthumanist perspective of far future. Adopting a qualitative research design, the study emphasized on critical and analytical techniques in the novella. The study was carried out with close reading method of the text, identifying sections which relate to posthumanism and the impact of technology in futuristic perspective. The data so identified was analyzed with the view to verify the theoretical underpinnings and the posthumanist perspective and examine the narrative rolling between myth and metaphor. The findings revealed how tremendous upheavals of the Industrial Revolution in the early eighteenth century influenced several aspects of society. It was evident that Wells was portraying and analyzing the futuristic and experimental changes that society was confronting, including technological advancement, its role, societal divisions, and inequality as society changes from Victorian England to a future time in 802,701. Implications for Research and Practice. The findings imply that despite the futuristic ambition to project technology to achieve innovative results, it may also replace humans; therefore, we should still de-mask that superstitious ambition to the extent that its role may still be restricted to supplementary means, whether personal or societal, and as tools that work for humans`benefit in proving their material goods. The study also implies how philosophical and scientific conception on the excessing role of the technology can serve for the human benefit.

The main aim of this topic is to provide a full-fledged analysis of the terminology used in the d... more The main aim of this topic is to provide a full-fledged analysis of the terminology used in the diplomatic field and to achieve this an in-depth analysis of two chapters from two books is elaborated, one is in Albanian Language and the other in English Language. The author of the book is the renowned scholar of diplomacy G. R. Berridge, Diplomacy Theory and Practice and the version in Albanian “Diplomacia, Teoria dhe Praktika”. To achieve a comparison of translation between the Albanian and English version it was necessary to carefully scrutinize and carry out a detailed analysis of translation aspects such as the Importance of Equivalence, Methods of Analysis, Grammatical Structure, Synchronic Approach and Diachronic Approach to the text and to draw the difference between the Political and Administrative Style. In addition to this it was of significant importance to make an ample lexical analysis of the key words and expressions. The misinterpretations of certain words in the diplo...

2018 UBT International Conference, Oct 27, 2018

A whole portrayal of the most brilliant echoes against the unbearable shown racist feelings on th... more A whole portrayal of the most brilliant echoes against the unbearable shown racist feelings on the black population is without any doubt pretty well mirrored in the American novel `I know why the caged bird sings` by Maya Angelou. The sad echoes of extremely loneliness, the feeling of being under evaluated, of being disregarded as human beings, are depicted in a marvelous way in this novel. Maya had not a pleasant childhood at all. She was the sister of Bailey whose parents were divorced. They were sent to St. Louis. From this moment, the very realistic feelings about her life have been shown throughout the whole novel. First of all, the author puts the emphasis on the unbearable oppression of racism so freely shown on the blacks, the humiliation that she has to go through almost all her life, the unpleasant situations that she has to experience. That is why this book is an ode to the cosmopolitan echoes which are hidden in almost every single word of throughout the whole novel. The whole novel is an autobiographical story of Maya`s life. She struggles about one of the worst evils present even nowadays in a great number of countries all around the world. She feels imprisoned inside the metal bars which symbolize her stress, pain, complete dissatisfaction with the idea how bad and harmful can human beings be. Her living in one and only one place, hat is the frequent movement from one place to another also causes her an enormous stress, because she raises her voice against the planned dislocation of the black people from one place to another, thus not having a stable living place. She also writes about her own dissatisfaction of her physical look, beginning with her teeth. Still, this is a wonderful novel which deals with the extremely harmful deformities of a lot of societies in the so called ``our modern world``.

2018 UBT International Conference, 2018

The main aim of this paper is to provide an in depth analysis regarding some of the underlying tr... more The main aim of this paper is to provide an in depth analysis regarding some of the underlying translation aspects of Brother Grimm Fairy Tales. The paper will closely elaborate and make comparison to translation between English version and Albanian version. Due to the fact that translation in itself is a multidisciplinary field of study, its reasonable tackling and profoundly analyzing some of the core stylistic features of this genre as well as carry out an elaboration of lexical components will a special emphasis on synonymy, phraseology and metaphors. Undoubtedly, the paper also incorporates and interweaves methods of translation, aspects related to equivalence in translation and the qualities of a translator needed to translate literature for children, which is quite peculiar compared to other genres. Owing to the fact that it vastly copes with analysis of lexical and translation traits of the respective piece, the method of research employed in this paper it is basically a qua...

2017 UBT International Conference, Oct 28, 2017

The main aim of this topic is to provide a full-fledged analysis of the terminology used in the d... more The main aim of this topic is to provide a full-fledged analysis of the terminology used in the diplomatic field and to achieve this an in-depth analysis of two chapters from two books is elaborated, one is in Albanian Language and the other in English Language. The author of the book is the renowned scholar of diplomacy G. R. Berridge, Diplomacy Theory and Practice and the version in Albanian "Diplomacia, Teoria dhe Praktika". To achieve a comparison of translation between the Albanian and English version it was necessary to carefully scrutinize and carry out a detailed analysis of translation aspects such as the Importance of Equivalence, Methods of Analysis, Grammatical Structure, Synchronic Approach and Diachronic Approach to the text and to draw the difference between the Political and Administrative Style. In addition to this it was of significant importance to make an ample lexical analysis of the key words and expressions. The misinterpretations of certain words in the diplomatic terminology may aggravate and take the shape of a conflict. So, contribution in this aspect of translation appears to be essential and in relevance to contemporary problematic.

This article elaborates key aspects of imagist poetry of the twentieth century American poets E. ... more This article elaborates key aspects of imagist poetry of the twentieth century American poets E. Pound, A. Lowell and H. Doolittle. Twentieth century imagism belongs to a literary movement in American modern era that is characterized by a tendency to break from the past of traditional literary styles, to a movement that reflects the simplicity, clarity and precision of reflective images. It covers a period from imagism to symbolism, a period of free expression, direct topics as well as images as an exact description. The study remains with highest relevance, despite that there is a wide range of articles, papers, analysis and books about American studies, yet it is a gap in specific topics and authors.


2017 UBT International Conference, Oct 28, 2017

Shakespeare is known in the world literature as one of the most influential writer that the Engli... more Shakespeare is known in the world literature as one of the most influential writer that
the English theatre has ever had. Therefore, the topic of this article aims to delve into the Shakespeare`s ethos in the spotlight of social communication and language. Furthermore, this study covers the main characteristics of Shakespeare influential works, aiming to illustrate some of the most important features of his masterpieces through a detailed and separated review on Shakespeare, with a critical analysis of their characters, including their performance in the stage, concept of identification with the world, as well as, the communication and relationship; their behavior, habits, and what is the most important his ethos. Respectively, this paper is designed to provide different analysis, comparisons, and elaborations from various authors and literary critics on English literature and wider with the purpose of providing a more colorful view on
Shakespeare`s ethos and his interaction to the public.

Keywords: ethos, interpersonal relations, concept of identification, social communication.


2017 UBT International Conference, Oct 28, 2017

UBT International Conference. 46., 2019

This article elaborates key aspects of the imagist poetry of twentieth century American poets E. ... more This article elaborates key aspects of the imagist poetry of twentieth century American poets E. Pound, A. Lowell and H. Doolittle. Twentieth century Imagism belongs to a literary movement in American modern era that is characterized by a tendency to break from the past of traditional literary styles, to a movement that reflects the simplicity, clarity and precision of reflective images. It covers a period from imagism to symbolism, a period of free expression, direct topics as well as images as an exact description. The study remains with highest relevance, despite that there is a wide range of articles, papers, analysis and books about American studies, yet it is a gap in specific topics and authors.

Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022

The purpose of this paper was to demonstrate how H G Wells' novella, The Time Machine examined th... more The purpose of this paper was to demonstrate how H G Wells' novella, The Time Machine examined the contemporary social, cultural, and political environment via a posthumanist perspective of far future. Adopting a qualitative research design, the study emphasized on critical and analytical techniques in the novella. The study was carried out with close reading method of the text, identifying sections which relate to posthumanism and the impact of technology in futuristic perspective. The data so identified was analyzed with the view to verify the theoretical underpinnings and the posthumanist perspective and examine the narrative rolling between myth and metaphor. The findings revealed how tremendous upheavals of the Industrial Revolution in the early eighteenth century influenced several aspects of society. It was evident that Wells was portraying and analyzing the futuristic and experimental changes that society was confronting, including technological advancement, its role, societal divisions, and inequality as society changes from Victorian England to a future time in 802,701. Implications for Research and Practice. The findings imply that despite the futuristic ambition to project technology to achieve innovative results, it may also replace humans; therefore, we should still de-mask that superstitious ambition to the extent that its role may still be restricted to supplementary means, whether personal or societal, and as tools that work for humans`benefit in proving their material goods. The study also implies how philosophical and scientific conception on the excessing role of the technology can serve for the human benefit.

Graphic novels “Wrinkles” and “Special Exits”- a comparative study, 2021

This paper examines a comparative analysis of two graphic novels: "Wrinkles" and "Special Exits",... more This paper examines a comparative analysis of two graphic novels: "Wrinkles" and "Special Exits", which consist of similarities as in style, theme and point of view, as well as the overall portrayal of main characters, Emilio and Rachel. Besides that, those two graphic novels have so many similarities; they also have parallels which differentiate them. The assisted care facility vs. home care. Wrinkles shows the life of the main character Emilio, with Alzheimer's in an assisted care facility, and the other novel portrays life experience at home. The other parallel pertain to the parent-child relationship; Wrinkles begins with the admission of Emilio to assisted care, upon the demand of his son, while, Special Exits portrays the relationship between a mother and daughter.

The purpose of this paper was to demonstrate how H G Wells' novella, The Time Machine examined th... more The purpose of this paper was to demonstrate how H G Wells' novella, The Time Machine examined the contemporary social, cultural, and political environment via a posthumanist perspective of far future. Adopting a qualitative research design, the study emphasized on critical and analytical techniques in the novella. The study was carried out with close reading method of the text, identifying sections which relate to posthumanism and the impact of technology in futuristic perspective. The data so identified was analyzed with the view to verify the theoretical underpinnings and the posthumanist perspective and examine the narrative rolling between myth and metaphor. The findings revealed how tremendous upheavals of the Industrial Revolution in the early eighteenth century influenced several aspects of society. It was evident that Wells was portraying and analyzing the futuristic and experimental changes that society was confronting, including technological advancement, its role, societal divisions, and inequality as society changes from Victorian England to a future time in 802,701. Implications for Research and Practice. The findings imply that despite the futuristic ambition to project technology to achieve innovative results, it may also replace humans; therefore, we should still de-mask that superstitious ambition to the extent that its role may still be restricted to supplementary means, whether personal or societal, and as tools that work for humans`benefit in proving their material goods. The study also implies how philosophical and scientific conception on the excessing role of the technology can serve for the human benefit.

The main aim of this topic is to provide a full-fledged analysis of the terminology used in the d... more The main aim of this topic is to provide a full-fledged analysis of the terminology used in the diplomatic field and to achieve this an in-depth analysis of two chapters from two books is elaborated, one is in Albanian Language and the other in English Language. The author of the book is the renowned scholar of diplomacy G. R. Berridge, Diplomacy Theory and Practice and the version in Albanian “Diplomacia, Teoria dhe Praktika”. To achieve a comparison of translation between the Albanian and English version it was necessary to carefully scrutinize and carry out a detailed analysis of translation aspects such as the Importance of Equivalence, Methods of Analysis, Grammatical Structure, Synchronic Approach and Diachronic Approach to the text and to draw the difference between the Political and Administrative Style. In addition to this it was of significant importance to make an ample lexical analysis of the key words and expressions. The misinterpretations of certain words in the diplo...

2018 UBT International Conference, Oct 27, 2018

A whole portrayal of the most brilliant echoes against the unbearable shown racist feelings on th... more A whole portrayal of the most brilliant echoes against the unbearable shown racist feelings on the black population is without any doubt pretty well mirrored in the American novel `I know why the caged bird sings` by Maya Angelou. The sad echoes of extremely loneliness, the feeling of being under evaluated, of being disregarded as human beings, are depicted in a marvelous way in this novel. Maya had not a pleasant childhood at all. She was the sister of Bailey whose parents were divorced. They were sent to St. Louis. From this moment, the very realistic feelings about her life have been shown throughout the whole novel. First of all, the author puts the emphasis on the unbearable oppression of racism so freely shown on the blacks, the humiliation that she has to go through almost all her life, the unpleasant situations that she has to experience. That is why this book is an ode to the cosmopolitan echoes which are hidden in almost every single word of throughout the whole novel. The whole novel is an autobiographical story of Maya`s life. She struggles about one of the worst evils present even nowadays in a great number of countries all around the world. She feels imprisoned inside the metal bars which symbolize her stress, pain, complete dissatisfaction with the idea how bad and harmful can human beings be. Her living in one and only one place, hat is the frequent movement from one place to another also causes her an enormous stress, because she raises her voice against the planned dislocation of the black people from one place to another, thus not having a stable living place. She also writes about her own dissatisfaction of her physical look, beginning with her teeth. Still, this is a wonderful novel which deals with the extremely harmful deformities of a lot of societies in the so called ``our modern world``.

2018 UBT International Conference, 2018

The main aim of this paper is to provide an in depth analysis regarding some of the underlying tr... more The main aim of this paper is to provide an in depth analysis regarding some of the underlying translation aspects of Brother Grimm Fairy Tales. The paper will closely elaborate and make comparison to translation between English version and Albanian version. Due to the fact that translation in itself is a multidisciplinary field of study, its reasonable tackling and profoundly analyzing some of the core stylistic features of this genre as well as carry out an elaboration of lexical components will a special emphasis on synonymy, phraseology and metaphors. Undoubtedly, the paper also incorporates and interweaves methods of translation, aspects related to equivalence in translation and the qualities of a translator needed to translate literature for children, which is quite peculiar compared to other genres. Owing to the fact that it vastly copes with analysis of lexical and translation traits of the respective piece, the method of research employed in this paper it is basically a qua...

2017 UBT International Conference, Oct 28, 2017

The main aim of this topic is to provide a full-fledged analysis of the terminology used in the d... more The main aim of this topic is to provide a full-fledged analysis of the terminology used in the diplomatic field and to achieve this an in-depth analysis of two chapters from two books is elaborated, one is in Albanian Language and the other in English Language. The author of the book is the renowned scholar of diplomacy G. R. Berridge, Diplomacy Theory and Practice and the version in Albanian "Diplomacia, Teoria dhe Praktika". To achieve a comparison of translation between the Albanian and English version it was necessary to carefully scrutinize and carry out a detailed analysis of translation aspects such as the Importance of Equivalence, Methods of Analysis, Grammatical Structure, Synchronic Approach and Diachronic Approach to the text and to draw the difference between the Political and Administrative Style. In addition to this it was of significant importance to make an ample lexical analysis of the key words and expressions. The misinterpretations of certain words in the diplomatic terminology may aggravate and take the shape of a conflict. So, contribution in this aspect of translation appears to be essential and in relevance to contemporary problematic.

This article elaborates key aspects of imagist poetry of the twentieth century American poets E. ... more This article elaborates key aspects of imagist poetry of the twentieth century American poets E. Pound, A. Lowell and H. Doolittle. Twentieth century imagism belongs to a literary movement in American modern era that is characterized by a tendency to break from the past of traditional literary styles, to a movement that reflects the simplicity, clarity and precision of reflective images. It covers a period from imagism to symbolism, a period of free expression, direct topics as well as images as an exact description. The study remains with highest relevance, despite that there is a wide range of articles, papers, analysis and books about American studies, yet it is a gap in specific topics and authors.


2017 UBT International Conference, Oct 28, 2017

Shakespeare is known in the world literature as one of the most influential writer that the Engli... more Shakespeare is known in the world literature as one of the most influential writer that
the English theatre has ever had. Therefore, the topic of this article aims to delve into the Shakespeare`s ethos in the spotlight of social communication and language. Furthermore, this study covers the main characteristics of Shakespeare influential works, aiming to illustrate some of the most important features of his masterpieces through a detailed and separated review on Shakespeare, with a critical analysis of their characters, including their performance in the stage, concept of identification with the world, as well as, the communication and relationship; their behavior, habits, and what is the most important his ethos. Respectively, this paper is designed to provide different analysis, comparisons, and elaborations from various authors and literary critics on English literature and wider with the purpose of providing a more colorful view on
Shakespeare`s ethos and his interaction to the public.

Keywords: ethos, interpersonal relations, concept of identification, social communication.


2017 UBT International Conference, Oct 28, 2017

UBT International Conference. 46., 2019

This article elaborates key aspects of the imagist poetry of twentieth century American poets E. ... more This article elaborates key aspects of the imagist poetry of twentieth century American poets E. Pound, A. Lowell and H. Doolittle. Twentieth century Imagism belongs to a literary movement in American modern era that is characterized by a tendency to break from the past of traditional literary styles, to a movement that reflects the simplicity, clarity and precision of reflective images. It covers a period from imagism to symbolism, a period of free expression, direct topics as well as images as an exact description. The study remains with highest relevance, despite that there is a wide range of articles, papers, analysis and books about American studies, yet it is a gap in specific topics and authors.