An International Symposium for doctoral students

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1 An International Symposium for doctoral students A Culture of Language 18 th 19 th October, 2012 Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic Thursday, 18 th October Venue: Moravian Museum, Dietrichsteinský palace (Dietrichstein Palace) Zelný trh Brno 13:30 Registration 14:00 Welcome address by Associate Professor Jana Chamonikolasová (the vice dean of the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University), Professor Ludmila Urbanová, and Associate Professor Pavel Drábek (Masaryk University) PLENARY LECTURES 14:30 15:20 15:25 16:15 Prof. Joachim Frenk (University of Saarland, Germany): Charles Dickens and Material Objects Prof. Richard Janney (University of Munich, Germany): Pragmatics and Cinema: Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange 16:15 16:45 Coffee break 16:45 17:35 17:40 18:30 Prof. Josef Jařab (Palacký University, Olomouc): The True Jazz Age Prof. Libuše Dušková (Charles University, Prague): A Centenary of the Prague English Studies 19:00 Symposium dinner Venue: SUNSET Restaurant (Cash bar) IBC Centrum Příkop 4, 9 th floorbrno

2 Friday, 19 th October Venue: Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts Department of English and American Studies (building G, 3 rd floor) Gorkého Brno TIME ROOM: G31 ROOM: G32 ROOM: SAC DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS CLASH OF CULTURES FILM STUDIES Chair: PhDr. Jitka Vlčková, Ph.D. Chair: Mgr. Tomáš Kačer, Ph.D. Chair: doc. PhDr. Tomáš Pospíšil, Dr. 1. Kloučková Veronika The Degree of Spokenness in Two Modes of CMC 1. Tomasz Gaczoł The Three Concepts of Fredric Jameson: Totality, Ideology and Historicism 1. Daniela Tecucianu The Question of Fidelity in Cinematic Adaptations Panel A 09:00 10:30 2. Lenka Stehlíková Some Thoughts on the Information Structure of Traffic Signs 2. Catalin Tecucianu Identity and Censorship in Nadine Gordimer s The Late Bourgeois World 2. Zrinka Serdarušić Cinema as Cultural Translation: Film Adaptations of Lolita 3. Pavel Reich The Use of Euphemisms as the Highest Form of Doublespeak in American Presidential Debates 4. Anna Polonska Directness and Indirectness in Drama: Speech Act Analysis 3. Zuzana Klímová Language as a Mirror of Cultural Syncretism and Hybridity 4. Ksenija Švarc The Trauma of Neo-Colonialism in the Contemporary Indian English Novel Eva Martić Film Adaptation of Tsotsi Power of Race and Power of Money 4. Dušan Kolcún Filmic Influences on Vietnam War Video Games 10:30 11:00 Coffee break

3 LINGUISTIC CHANGE AND CREATIVITY LANGUAGE AND BODY FEMALE AUTHOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITING Chair: doc. PhDr. Naděžda Kudrnáčová, CSc. Chair: Mgr. Tomáš Kačer, Ph.D. Chair: doc. Mgr. Pavel Drábek, Ph.D. Panel B 11:00 12:00 1. Barbora Charvátová Language Users as Creative Designers of Meaning: Linguistic Creativity in American Television Series 2. Lenka Glaubaufová The Passive Voice in English from a Pragmatic Point of View 3. Kristína Urbančíková Linguistic Transformation of English Gender 1. Markéta Dudová The Incurable Heathcliff: The Language of Medicine in Wuthering Heights 2. Eike Kronshage More in Countenance than Language. Physiognomic Language in Foreign Cultural Surroundings in Charlotte Brontё s The Professor and Villette 3. Kamil Michta A Culture of Language, a Laguage of Culture: Nietzsche's Mnemotechnics in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians 1. Marcela Sekanina Vavřinová Margery Kempe and Religion as Performance 2. Martina Bílá Subjectivity and the Form of Representation in The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 3. Lucie Seibertová Helen Keller and the Authorship of Her Works 12:00 13:30 Lunch NARRATOLOGY LINGUISTIC STRATEGIES AND LANGUAGE PLANNING AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING Chair: doc. Mgr. Pavel Drábek, Ph.D. Chair: Mgr. Martin Drápela, Ph.D. Chair: Mgr. Martina Horáková, Ph.D. Panel C 13:30 14:30 1. Eva Malková Introduction Patterns in Ian McEwan 2. Merima Murica The Iraq War in Contemporary American Young Adult Fiction: The American Soldier as the Traumatized Anti-Hero 3. Péter Kristóf Makai The Language of Neurotypicals and Autists: Portrayal of Neurological Difference in Claire Morrall s The Language of Others 1. Olga Zvyeryeva Verbal/Non-Verbal Realization of the Role Child in English-Speaking Siblings Discourse 2. Assel Akzhigitova Language Planning in Public Linguistic Space: the Case of Metropolises 3. Aliya Aimoldina The Role of English as a Language of Intercultural Business Communication in Kazakhstan 1. Jiří Šalamoun Mixing the High and the Low: Caucasian Characters Speaking African American English in Two Novels by Ishmael Reed. 2. Jan Beneš Zora Neale Hurston s Experiments: Tracing the Portrayal of Romantic Relationships in Under the Bridge, Muttsy, and Monkey Junk 3. Marta Werbanowska Reclaiming the Commodified Body: Saartje Baartman and Josephine Baker in the Poetry of Elizabeth Alexander

4 METADISCOURSIVE FEATURES AND THE ROLE OF HEDGES NON-NATIVE DISCOURSE LITERATURE ON THE MOVE Chair: Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D. Chair: Mgr. Martin Drápela, Ph.D. Chair: Mgr. Renata Kamenická, Ph.D. Panel D 14:40 15:40 1. Tereza Malčíková Metadiscourse in Undergraduate Textbooks and Research Articles Compared 2. Marcela Sudková The Expression of Interpersonal Metadiscourse in Czech and English Academic Texts. A Contrastive Study 3. Martina Malášková The Role of Hedging in Reader Writer Interaction in Research Articles 1. Alena Vašíčková Design and Compilation of a Corpus of Non-Native Legal English Texts 2. Ana Monika Pirc Construction Grammar and Non-Native Discourse 3. Jan Pikhart On Non-Native Speaker Communication from a Genre Perspective 1. Barbara Pausch Anglo-Canadian Short Story Anthologies in German(y), Nana Msakhuradze Translation Peculiarities of Modal Verbs in Georgian and English Political Discourses 3. Tina Laco From Play to Performance: Social and Cultural Implications of Eugene O Neill s and John Osborne s Plays 15:40 16:10 Coffee break Closing comments by Professor Ludmila Urbanová and Jeffrey A. Vanderziel, Department Head in Room G32 COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN ENGLISH THE POWER OF LANGUAGE Chair: PhDr. Jarmila Fictumová Chair: Mgr. Martina Horáková, Ph.D. Panel E 16:10 16:50 1. Jarmila Dezortová English-Czech Comparative Studies 2. Petr Sudický Investigating Academic Writing in the ELF Context: A Comparative Study of Dissertation Abstracts 1. Gabriela Jeleńska-Krajewska Sky Woman and the Importance of Words: Reflections on Native American Creation Stories 2. Veronika Pituková The Power of Language in American Hard-boiled Detective Fiction

5 Panel F 17:00 17:40 INTENSIFICATION, EVALUATION AND COHESION Chair: James Thomas, M.A. 1. Jaromír Haupt Overheated Pigs and Bugs in The Sun: Warming up the Science News Reader through Evaluation 2. Petra Zmrzlá A Comparison of Cohesive Devices in Research Articles LINGUISTIC VARIETIES OF ENGLISH Chair: prof. PhDr. Ludmila Urbanová, CSc. 1. Miroslav Ježek Modern RP(s): the Sources of Innovation in the British Standard Pronunciation Accent 2. Mateusz Sarnecki A Corpus Study into Prepositional Complementation of Adjectives Across Selected Varieties of English