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

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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.

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) -- 1 Introduction -- 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) -- 1 Introduction -- 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 -- References -- TOWARDS BRITISH OR AMERICAN ENGLISH: TRANSLATION FROM LITHUANIAN TO ENGLISH ACROSS GENRES (Ramunė Kasperavičienė)

1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology -- 3 Differences between British and American English -- 4 Results -- 4 Conclusions -- COGNITIVE-ONTOLOGICAL APPROACH TO METAPHOR (Zhanna Maslova & Denis Minakhin) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Cognitive-ontological approach to metaphor -- 2.1 Ontological systems -- 2.2 Mythological image and mythological metaphor -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- POLITICAL DISCOURSE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN BRITAIN Ildikó Némethová -- 1 Introduction -- 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 -- References -- 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 Introduction -- 1.1 Dimensions of emotion and opinion -- 2 Materials and methods -- 3 Analyses -- 3.1 Qatada corpus -- 3.2 Baby corpus -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- 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

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