Challenges of Anglophone language(s), literatures and cultures / edited by Alena Kačmárová and Bavjola Shatro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kačmárová, Alena, editor.

Shatro, Bavjola, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages in contact--English-speaking countries.

Languages in contact.

Civilization.

English-speaking countries--Civilization.

English-speaking countries.

Physical Description:

xxi, 316 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

This book explores scholarly challenges within the fields of Anglophone language, literature, and culture. The section focusing on language details issues falling within two areas: namely, language contact and the language-culture relationship, and stylistic and syntactic perspectives on the English language. The literature part investigates twentieth-century American, English, and Australian literature, dealing with both poetry and prose and discussing topics of identity, gender, metafiction, postmodern conditions, and other relevant theoretical issues in contemporary literature. The culture part treats theoretical approaches in cultural studies that are vital in today's cultural context, especially in Central European universities, the Irish language and culture, and contemporary cultural phenomena inspired by the growing ubiquity of technological intrusions into various fields of cultural production. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Language

Chapter 1 Introducing FSPML 2.0M: A Markup Language for Multilevel Tagging of Functional Sentence Perspective / Martin Drápela Drápela, Martin 3

Chapter 2 Changing Vocabulary in a Changing Culture: A Study of Contemporary Culture-related Vocabulary / L'uboš Dudík Dudík, L'uboš 21

Chapter 3 Skopos and Translating Slovak Tourist Texts into English / Jonathan Gresty Gresty, Jonathan 33

Chapter 4 The Development of the Usage of Address Forms in a Business Conversation in American English / Alena Kacmárová Kacmárová, Alena 49

Chapter 5 Lexico-grammatical Features of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in Slovak and French Academic Settings / Diana Krajnáková Krajnáková, Diana 69

Chapter 6 Representation of Sexes in Occupational Lexicon: Asymmetry across Languages / Marcela Michálková Michálková, Marcela 89

Chapter 7 Syntactic Complexity of English Spoken and Written Text Types / Rita Rafajlovicová Rafajlovicová, Rita 109

Chapter 8 Figurative Language: The Analysis of Nautical Metaphors in English and Polish / Agnieszka Uberman Uberman, Agnieszka 133

Part II Literature

Chapter 9 Self-Referentiality and Fiction Writing in Martin Amis's Money / Loran Gami Gami, Loran 157

Chapter 10 Tears behind the Laughter in Alexis Wright's Carpentaria / Jana Šcigulinská Šcigulinská, Jana 173

Chapter 11 The Meaning of the Self in Contemporary American and Albanian Poetry (being a woman in the poetry of Marge Piercy and Natasha Lako) / Bavjola Shatro Shatro, Bavjola 197

Chapter 12 The Visual and the Verbal in Storytelling (writers' (un)controlled deployment of narrative dynamism in semi-visual/hybrid novels and short stories) / Marek Tomášik Tomášik, Marek 219

Part III Culture

Chapter 13 The Age of Fragmented Narratives: Challenges for the Traditional Role of Cultural Conceptualization and Social Cognition in Digital Culture / László Imre Komlósi Komlósi, László Imre 247

Chapter 14 Invisible Revelations: Apocalyptic Technologies, Zombie Artefacts and the End(s) of History / Marcin Mazurek Mazurek, Marcin 265

Chapter 15 Irish Language and Identity: Revitalization and Protection / Anna Slatinská Slatinská, Anna, Jana Pecniková Pecniková, Jana 279

Chapter 16 Theory, Damned Theory: Approaches to Cultural Studies / James Sutherland-Smith Sutherland-Smith, James 295.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1443817511

9781443817516

OCLC:

964293984

Publisher Number:

99970294149