Communication across generes and discourses : Sixth Brno Conference on Linguistics studies in English, Brno, 11-12, September 2014 : conference proceedings / editors, Martin Adam, Radek Vogel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adam, Martin, 1975- editor.

Vogel, Radek, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics--Congresses.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Brno : Masarykova University, [2015]

Summary:

These conference proceedings contain papers presented at the Sixth BrnoConference on Linguistics Studies in English entitled Communication acrossGenres and Discourses. The conference was organised by the Departmentof English Language and Literature of the Faculty of Education of MasarykUniversity and was held on 11-12 September 2014.

Contents:

Intro

Introduction

CONTENTS

ENGLISH-SLOVAK LANGUAGE CONTACT: THE CASE OF LEXICAL BORROWINGS (Klaudia Bednárová-Gibová)

1 Lead-in: English as a lingua franca of the present-day world

2 Borrowing as a linguistic term

3 Reasons for borrowings in the language

4 Critical reception of borrowings

5 Analysis

5.1 Research rationale

5.2 Quantitative analysis

5.3 Qualitative analysis

6 Conclusion

Appendix

REALIZATION OF IMPOLITENESS STRATEGIES IN AMERICAN TV SERIES: ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK (Mariya Fedyna)

1 Introduction

2 The data

3 Brown and Levinson's Politeness Theory

4 The evolution of the notion of impoliteness

5 Models of impoliteness

6 Analysis: impoliteness in interaction

6.1 The interaction between prison offi cials and inmates

6.2 The interaction between prison inmates

7 Conclusions

SYNTACTIC FUNCTIONS OF NON-FINITE VERB FORMS IN A LEARNER CORPUS OF CZECH STUDENTS (Libuše Hornová)

2 Corpus description

3 Aims and methods

4 Language analysis

5 The infi nitive

6 Gerund

7 - ing and -ed participles

8 Conclusions

References

DISCOURSAL FUNCTIONS OF IDEATIONAL, INTERPERSONAL AND RELATIONAL IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS (Zuzana Hrdličková)

2 The functions of a language

2.1 Vocabulary as an analogue of the world

3 Classifi cation of idioms from the pragmatic point of view

3.1 Ideational and relational idioms

4 Functions of idiomatic expressions

5 Formal aspects of idiomatic expressions

6 Material and methods

7 Results and discussion

8 Conclusion

TOWARDS BRITISH OR AMERICAN ENGLISH: TRANSLATION FROM LITHUANIAN TO ENGLISH ACROSS GENRES (Ramunė Kasperavičienė)

2 Methodology

3 Differences between British and American English

4 Results

4 Conclusions.

COGNITIVE-ONTOLOGICAL APPROACH TO METAPHOR (Zhanna Maslova &amp

Denis Minakhin)

2 Cognitive-ontological approach to metaphor

2.1 Ontological systems

2.2 Mythological image and mythological metaphor

3 Conclusion

POLITICAL DISCOURSE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN BRITAIN Ildikó Némethová

2 Politics and political discursive practices

3 Britishness as political identity

3.1 Britishness and the European project

3.2 British party attitudes to European integration

4 Conclusion

SPEAKING SKILLS PRACTICE AT ESP INSTRUCTION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS IN BRATISLAVA (Zuzana Ondrejová)

EMOTION AND OPINION IN BRITISH ONLINE NEWSPAPERS (Petra Peldová)

1.1 Dimensions of emotion and opinion

2 Materials and methods

3 Analyses

3.1 Qatada corpus

3.2 Baby corpus

4 Conclusions

THE MARKED WORD ORDER AS A SYNTACTIC MEANS OF EMPHATIC EXPRESSION IN CHOSEN LITERARY SAMPLES (Jana Richterová)

1 Introduction: the English word order - marked and unmarked

2 The thematic variations as an object of choice

3 Comparison with Czech: word order within the theory of translation

4 The samples analysed

4.1 Analyses - part 1

4.2 Analyses - part 2

5 Application in the teaching process

SENTENCE STRUCTURES OF CZECH AND ENGLISH LEGAL TEXTS (Alice Rubášová)

2 Analysis of introductory sections

3 Analysis of judicial opinions

PHRASEOLOGY: A LINK BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE (Jelisaveta Safranj)

2 Levels of phraseological unit cultural peculiarities

3 Native speaker phraseological competence

3.1 Phraseological deviation

3.2 Creative variation

4 Conclusion.

AN EMERGING VARIETY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: SOME ISSUES AROUND THE COMPLEXITY OF THE EURO-ENGLISH (Dagmar Sageder)

1 Legal language

2 Euro-English - supranational legal language in the European Union

COMPARATIVE CZECH-ENGLISH ANALYSIS OF WRITTEN ENGLISH (KAPA): TRANSFORMING LINGUISTIC EXPERTISE INTO A PRACTICAL EAP COURSE (Radek Vogel &amp

Martin Adam)

1 Current approaches to ELT, especially to teaching EAP

2 The need for a comparative grammatical and lexicological approach

3 The aims of the comparative course

3.1 Theoretical background and methodology

3.2 Lexical interference

3.3 Syntactic interference

3.4 Errors, mistakes and interference

3.5 Course structure

4 Selected differences between Czech and English language phenomena

4.1 Selected lexical interferences

4.2 Selected syntactic interference

4.3 Syntactic tendencies typical of on-native (Czech-authored) formal written English

5 Conclusions.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9788021079717

8021079711