FOURTH BRNO CONFERENCE ON LINGUISTIC STUDIES IN ENGLISH 2010
Interpretation of Meaning in Spoken and Written Discourse
Brno, 16-17 September 2010
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Thursday, 16th September 2010
9.00-10.00 – registration (information desk, ground floor)
10:00-10:15 – opening (room 50)
10:15-11:15 – plenary lecture – Gabriela Miššíková (room 50)
Cooperation and politeness in literary discourse
11:15-11:30 – coffee break
Session 1
Section A: pragmatics (room 57)
CHAIR: Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova
11:30-11:50 – Manuel Padilla Cruz – Interjections and explicatures
12:00-12:20 – Oleg A. Alimuradov, Natalia S. Alimuradova, Maria A. Karatyshova – The
strategic structure of compliment discourse
12:30-12:50 – Renáta Tomášková – Structural and cognitive stereotyping in lifestyle
magazines for women
Section B:
semantics and pragmatics (room 58)
CHAIR: Radek Vogel
11:30-11:50 – Magdalena Szczyrbak – Monologic Concessive schemata in dialogic discourse
– On the interactional nature of judicial argumentation
12:00-12:20 – Martin Adam – Transitional verbs operating in the presentation scale
sentences within fiction narratives: An attempt at a dynamic and a static semantic
analysis
12:30-12:50 – Jaromír Haupt – Palpated, phonendoscoped, x-rayed and tomographed: The
structure of science news in good shape
13:00-14:30 – lunch
14:30-15:30 – plenary lecture – Henry G. Widdowson (room 50)
The pretext of interpretation
15:30-15:40 – coffee break
Session 2
Section A: academic and literary discourse (room 57)
CHAIR: Renata Povolná
15:40-16:00 – Barbara Schiftner – Coherence relations in advanced English learner writing
16:10-16:30 – Melanie Marcinkowski – Modality in academic discourse: Meaning and use of
epistemic verbs in research articles
16:40-17:00 – Jolana Kaštovská – Lists of three and more items in contemporary prose
fiction
Section B:
grammar and semantics (room 58)
CHAIR: Martin Adam
15:40-16:00 – Pavel Kolář – Three dictionaries – the semanticizing process
16:10-16:30 – Vladislav Smolka – Word-order as a means of resolving ambiguity
16:40-17:00 – Jelisaveta Safranj – Word order in English and Serbian
Section C: applied linguistics (room 59)
CHAIR: Helena Havlíčková
15:40-16:00 – Makrina Zafiri – Bridging the gap between reading, writing, listening and
speaking skills in tertiary education. The case of the students of Architecture at
the University of Thessaly in Greece
16:10-16:30 – Alan Dykstra – Metadiscourse strategies: EFL academic writing students’ uses
and perceptions
16:40-17:00 – Lucie Betáková – Teacher initiation move within classroom discourse
17:10-17:30 – coffee break
Session 3
Section A: academic discourse (room 57)
CHAIR: Renata Jančaříková
17:30-17:50 – Radek Vogel – Lexical cohesion in popular vs. theoretical scientific texts
18:00-18:20 – Irena Hůlková – Conjunctive adverbials in academic written discourse –
A corpus analysis based on sociolinguistic approach
18:30-18:50 – Lenka Slunečková – ESP students and the mysteries of English word order
Section B:
semantics (room 58)
CHAIR: Martina Malášková
17:30-17:50 – Gabriel Barbulet – A possible conversational analysis model from the
perspective of slang usage in prison movies – Frank Darabont’s The Green
Mile
18:00-18:20 – Milada Pavlovová – Vocabulary layers in musical discourse
18:30-18:50 – Ben Van Nguyen – Formation of combining forms and pronunciation of
derivative words
Section C: applied linguistics (room 59)
CHAIR: Helena Havlíčková
17:30-17:50 – Reima Al-Jarf – Effect of background knowledge on auditory comprehension in
interpreting courses
18:00-18:20 – Dagmar Sieglová and Tamah Sherman – Defining self through language
18:30-18:50 – Evangelos Kourdis and Makrina Zafiri – Book illustrations as intersemiotic
translation in second language teaching in primary schools
20:00
– conference dinner
Friday, 17th September 2010
9:15-10:15 – plenary lecture – László I. Komlósi (room 50)
Linguistic context and discourse environment for interpreted meanings:
Meaning construction via contextualization
10:15-10:30 – coffee break
Session 1
Section A: pragmatics (room 57)
CHAIR: Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova
10:30-10:50 – Andrei Levitsky – Focusing as the discourse strategy of information
representation
11:00-11:20 – Renata Jančaříková – Crime news: Conveying social views and attitudes via
the victim-criminal dichotomy
11:30-11:50 – Monika Gyuró – Coherence in court arguments
12:00-12:20 – Petra Zmrzlá – Now as a discourse marker in spoken English
Section B:
internet discourse (room 58)
CHAIR: Radek Vogel
10:30-10:50 – Šárka Hastrdlová – Considering politeness strategies in Internet relay chat
opening sequences
11:00-11:20 – Šárka Ježková – Turn taking devices in on-line asynchronous communication
11:30-11:50 – Alena Hradilová, Hana Katrňáková and Libor Štěpánek – Semantic, pragmatic
and intercultural aspects of students’ communication through
videoconferencing (spoken) and Facebook (informal written English)
12:00-12:20 – Markéta Johnová – Gendered talk: Taboo language in chatroom
12:30-12:45 – coffee break
Session 2
Section A: pragmatics (room 57)
CHAIR: Martin Adam
12:45-13:05 – Jana Adámková – Vagueness in British political interviews
13:15-13:35 – Zuzana Urbanová – Reported language in discourse: An overview
13:45-14:05 – Tatiana Tkačuková – Politeness strategies during cross-examination
Section B:
academic discourse (room 58)
CHAIR: Renata Povolná
12:45-13:05 – Alejandro Parini – Language and gender in EFL academic writing: Context
and variation in epicene pronominal choice
13:15-13:35 – Vladimíra Ježdíková – Contrastive and resultive conjuncts in English academic
prose
13:45-14:05 – Martina Malášková – Hedging in research articles: Humanities and social
sciences compared
14:15-15:45 – lunch
Session 3
Section A: sociolinguistics (room 57)
CHAIR: Renata Povolná
15:45-16:05 – Lucie Kučerová – Studs Terkel: Fact vs. truth in oral history interviews
16:15–16:35 – Jana Švárová – On the structure and use of compliments in present-day
English
16:45-17:05 – Jana Svobodová – Threat perception in the speeches of G.W. Bush and B.
Obama – A comparison
17:15-17:35 – Věra Zouharová – Personal and preferred partner characteristics in personal
advertisements: With regard to appearance
17:45-18:05 – Zuzana Kozáčiková – The use of non-finite syntactic constructions in written
discourse
Section B:
translation (room 58)
CHAIR: Tatiana Tkačuková
15:45-16:05 – Geoffrey Maroko – Thesis writing: Forms of author identification and
their communicative purposes in selected disciplines
16:15-16:35 – Martin Mačura – Defective constructions in the translations rendered by rulebased and statistical automated translation systems
16:45-17:05 – Renata Šimůnková – Modal expressions of necessity and their non-modal
counterparts
17:15-17:35 – Martin Němec – Equivalent translation theory as the key for modern
translations?
17:45-18:05 – Lida Cope – Collaborative discourse and learner identity formation in a dual
language immersion classroom
18:15-18:30 – conference closing