L2 learners may try to pick up the unknown word’s meaning from a dictionary. Many different factors, such as how important the meaning of the word is in the passage, the number of unknown words, and the reason the students are working on it, etc., affect the frequency of the student’s use of the dic…

Erving Goffman’s emphasis on impression management in everyday life means that for the most part persons offer only partial or incomplete glimpses of themselves. Indeed, under specifiable conditions self-presentations may take the form of a negational self. If negational selves exist at the person o…

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effects of Article 113 of the Albanian Criminal Code on women. This article appears to be gender neutral, but it’s enforcement affects women disproportionately and face them with forms of indirect gender discrimination. Through monitoring of Tirana Judicia…

In the aftermath of Cold War, the system of United Nations (UN) Peace Missions assumed new proportions, by adjusting the nature of political developments, which characterized the international relations stage in this period. In the peace-keeping agenda of these missions, special focus was given to i…

The complicated, troubled and tragic events of a wealthy family from Vlorë, Albania, which a century ago expanded its business to Italy, in Brindisi and Trieste, and whose grand land tenures and financial properties in Albania were nationalized by Communism after the Second World War. Hence the life…

Our times are often referred to as the new world order with its new economy. What this means is that capitalism has been restructured on a global scale, and people of widely different cultural and linguistic backgrounds have been thrown into contact more than ever before. Cultural contact may occur …

Pyetësori i Spiro Floqit i hartuar më 1956, është i treti pas pyetësorit të E. Çabejt të hartuar më 1943 dhe pyetësorit të M. Domit dhe E. Çabejt të hartuar më 1953. Pas tij më 1979 është hartuar pyetësori i ADGJSh-së. Pra, në periudhën ndërmjet viteve 1944-1997 janë hartuar katër pyetësorë dialekto…

The desire to belong in a individual culture means to possess a clear vision for the world, a road map that guides its followers towards the proper understanding of the planet’s past present and future. An established mythology of apparent national identities in the Balkans is somewhat unnaturally r…

Tourism represents an aggressive and growing industry which is gaining fast impact and importance in national and local economies. This new shape that the touristic product and touristic sector is gaining makes necessary a deep understanding of influencing factor and the range of impact this shape c…

Ndryshimet në jetën ekonomike, politike e shoqërore të vendit tonë pas viteve ‘90 u pasqyruan gjerësisht edhe në gjuhë, në mënyrë të veçantë në leksik. Ajo që bie në sy, në këtë periudhë, janë përmasat shqetësuese që mori dukuria e huazimit për shkak të hyrjes së pakontrolluar të fjalëve të huaja në…

Topika e përcaktorëve të njëpasnjëshëm përbën padyshim një çështje me interes të veçantë, e cila është hulumtuar nga disa albanologë shqiptarë. Studimet e deritanishme sintaksore janë përqendruar në dy aspekte kryesore: a) në analizën dhe shpjegimin e modeleve të renditjes së dy përcaktorëve të njëp…

Legal principles, legal values, and legal norms are essentially part of the same notion. Often in legal literature, legal principles are considered to be legal norms, general legal norms, legal values etc. In fact, legal principles are just legal norms that different from the latter are legal norms …