Communication Across Genres and Discourses

Sixth Brno Conference on Linguistics Studies in English. Brno, 11–12 September 2014. Conference proceedings

Martin Adam, Radek Vogel, Martin Adam, Radek Vogel

• Publisher: Masarykova univerzita
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9788021079229
• eBook ISBN:
  9788021079717
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

These conference proceedings contain papers presented at the Sixth Brno Conference on Linguistics Studies in English entitled Communication across Genres and Discourses. The conference was organised by the Department of English Language and Literature of the Faculty of Education of Masaryk University and was held on 11-12 September 2014. The Conference was dedicated to current trends and developments in English linguistics studies with a focus on communication in various genres and discourses. The contributions deal with a wide range of linguistic topics, such as discourse analysis, stylistics, translation studies, pragmatics, genre analysis, hybrid types of discourse, and multi-media communication.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• CONTENTS
• ENGLISH-SLOVAK LANGUAGE CONTACT: THE CASE OF LEXICAL BORROWINGS (Klaudia Bednárová-Gibová)
• REALIZATION OF IMPOLITENESS STRATEGIES IN AMERICAN TV SERIES: ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK (Mariya Fedyna)
• SYNTACTIC FUNCTIONS OF NON-FINITE VERB FORMS IN A LEARNER CORPUS OF CZECH STUDENTS (Libuše Hornová)
• DISCOURSAL FUNCTIONS OF IDEATIONAL, INTERPERSONAL AND RELATIONAL IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS (Zuzana Hrdličková)
• TOWARDS BRITISH OR AMERICAN ENGLISH: TRANSLATION FROM LITHUANIAN TO ENGLISH ACROSS GENRES (Ramunė Kasperavičienė)
• COGNITIVE-ONTOLOGICAL APPROACH TO METAPHOR (Zhanna Maslova & Denis Minakhin)
• POLITICAL DISCOURSE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN BRITAIN Ildikó Némethová
• SPEAKING SKILLS PRACTICE AT ESP INSTRUCTION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS IN BRATISLAVA (Zuzana Ondrejová)
• EMOTION AND OPINION IN BRITISH ONLINE NEWSPAPERS (Petra Peldová)
• THE MARKED WORD ORDER AS A SYNTACTIC MEANS OF EMPHATIC EXPRESSION IN CHOSEN LITERARY SAMPLES (Jana Richterová)
• SENTENCE STRUCTURES OF CZECH AND ENGLISH LEGAL TEXTS (Alice Rubášová)
• PHRASEOLOGY: A LINK BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE (Jelisaveta Safranj)
• AN EMERGING VARIETY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: SOME ISSUES AROUND THE COMPLEXITY OF THE EURO-ENGLISH (Dagmar Sageder)
• COMPARATIVE CZECH-ENGLISH ANALYSIS OF WRITTEN ENGLISH (KAPA): TRANSFORMING LINGUISTIC EXPERTISE INTO A PRACTICAL EAP COURSE (Radek Vogel & Martin Adam)