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FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE 2015 Seventh Annual International Conference on Anglophone Studies
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
3 – 4 September 2015
DAY 1 – Thursday
3 September
11:00
Guided tour of the historic 21 Building, the former headquarters of Bata Shoes, organized by Jason Bell meeting point: in front of the conference venue (= University Centre, building U13)
12:00
Registration
14:00
Commencement – room 131
14:15
First keynote speech – room 131 Textual Meaning and Literary Interpretation: The Role of Stylistics Lesley Jeffries – University of Huddersfield, UK
15:15 – 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 – 17:10
First section – rooms 540/548/549/550
17:10 – 17:30
Coffee break
17:30 – 18:30
Second keynote speech – room 131 Narratology, Cognitive Literary Theory and the Lyric Eva Zettelmann – University of Vienna, Austria
18:30
15:30
Reception
Linguistics A, Chair: Radek Vogel
room 548
Sensing and Saying in the Interventionist Discourse Marek Hampl - University of Žilina, Slovakia Pragmatic Wording in Political Commentary: Selected Website Headline Strategies Alan Dykstra - Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia Analysis of Design Description Anna Štohanzlová - Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Conventional and Creative Hyperbolic Expressions in the Language of Television Series Barbora Thiella - Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
15:30
Linguistics B, Chair: Lenka Drábková
room 540
Between Presentation and Quality Vladislav Smolka – University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Pre-vocalic Glottalization and Voice Assimilation in Czech and Slovak Jakub Bortlík - Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Czech Learners’ Ability to Pronounce Schwa in English Words Jaroslava Ivanová - University of Pardubice, Czech Republic Linking Adverbials in Academic Discourse: Corpus-based Analysis of Student and Professional Writing Andrea Ryšavá - Palacký University, Olomuc, Czech Republic
15:30
Literature A, Chair: Jan Suk
room 549
The Vanished World of Jews: Melvin Jules Bukiet’s Stories of an Imaginary Childhood Stanislav Kolář – University of Ostrava, Czech Republic The Concept of ‘Station’ in James Fenimore Cooper’s Novel The Headsman Michal Peprník – Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic “The Slave-holders in This Country Are Men of Kind and Humane Tempers”: Antebellum Plantation Romances and the Myth of the Old South Jozef Pecina – University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Slovakia Shakespeare’s London: Glimpses of London Landmarks in William Shakespeare’s Plays Ivona Mišterová – University of West Bohemia, Plzeň, Czech Republic
15:30
Cultural Studies, Chair: Jason Bell
room 550
Repetition Compulsion, Symbolization Compulsion, Adaptation: The Role of Art in Working through Collective Trauma in South Africa Ewald Mengel – University of Vienna, Austria Personal Failure or a Structural Problem? Approaches to Poverty in Britain in a Historical Perspective Alice Tihelková – University of West Bohemia, Plzeň, Czech Republic Challenging Tradition: The Flag Debate in New Zealand Peter Barrer – Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia The Multilayered Quality of American Culture Alena Smiešková – Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia
Reception
DAY 2 – Friday 9:00 – 10:40
Second section – rooms 540/549
10:40 – 10:55
Coffee break
10:55 – 12:35
Third section – rooms 540/548/549/550
12:35 – 12:45
Draw for prizes offered by Oxford University Press
12:45 – 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 – 15:10
Fourth section – rooms 540/549
9:00
Linguistics C, Chair: Lesley Jeffries
4 September
room 540
Inclusion vs. Exclusion of Hypernym in Subordinate Terminological Items: The Problem of Semantic Dispersion and Transparency Radek Vogel - Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Technology and Technological Progress in New English Lexis Ľuboš Dudík - Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia Salt Expressions in English and Taiwanese Southern Min Shelley Ching-yu Hsieh-Depner - National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Introduction and Identification Chains in Ian McEwan's Novels Eva Malková - Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
9:00
Literature B, Chair: Jozef Pecina
room 549
Creating Identities According to Diana Abu-Jaber’s Arab American Literary Recipes Zuzana Tabačková – Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia “Girl”: Quadruply Oppressed Asma Hussein – Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Experiencing Immigration and Its Economic and Emotional Fallout in Selected Works of Hispanic American Literature Magdalena Hanusková – University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Language of African Literature Ryszard Wolny – Opole University, Poland
10:55
Linguistics D, Chair: Jaroslava Ivanová
room 540
The Struggle with Language - Translating Military Ranks Ladislav Chaloupský – Independent Scholar Mixing the Codes: English Constructions in Czech Sentences by Contemporary Czech Youth Vojtěch Duda - Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Theoretical Linguistic Aspects of Intercultural Communication in Practice Marcel Pikhart - University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic From Theory to Practice – Designing a Curriculum for Interpretation Studies Pavol Šveda - Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
10:55
Linguistics E, Chair: Shelley Ching-yu HsiehDepner
room 548
The Syntax and Polarity Sensitivity of ‘Degree’ Pseudo-partitive Constructions in English and Romanian Mihaela Tanase-Dogaru and Mihaela Zamfirescu - University of Bucharest, Romania Can PPIs in Romanian Scope under Negation? A Comparative Analysis of English and Romanian Mihaela Zamfirescu - University of Bucharest, Romania Passivization of Verbo-nominal Structures in English Marcela Minaříková and Dagmar Machová - Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic
10:55
Literature C, Chair: Petr Vinklárek
room 549
Rortian Irony and the Poetics of Plenitude in Some Contemporary American Poetry Kacper Bartczak – University of Lodz, Poland Poetry Says the Unsayable: Childhood in the Poetry of Grace Nichols Pavlína Flajšarová – Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic The American Suburb as a Long Poem Jiří Flajšar – Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic From Presidential Inauguration to Class Jana Kašparová – University of West Bohemia, Plzeň, Czech Republic
10:55
Literature D, Chair: David Livingstone
room 550
Poetics of In-between – Forced Entertainment, Performance and/as Pedagogy Jan Suk – University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic In Search for Presence through Absence – Performance as Utopia, Longing and Discovery Ivan Lacko – Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia Feminism and Poetry/Poetry and Feminism: The Interventions of Shakespeare’s Sisters Aleksandra Nikčević-Batrićević – University of Montenegro, Montenegro and Aleksandra V. Jovanović – University of Belgrade, Serbia Is Canadian Literature American? CanLit within Hemispheric American Studies Lucia Otrísalová – Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
Lunch break 13:30
Linguistics F, Chair: Dagmar Machová
room 540
A Note about Bare Infinitives in English Ludmila Veselovská - Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Germanic Genitive in English: Influence of Old Norse Anna Kozánková and Petra Charvátová - Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Exponents of the Third Person Singular Present Tense Morpheme in English: A Case Study of Jonathan Swift Lucie Langerová - Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic The Other Europeans above and below the Line in the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian Malgorzata Paprota - Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland Cohesion in Comics: Exploring Intra-panel Ties Petr Vinklárek - Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic
13:30
Literature E, Chair: Roman Trušník
room 549
The Role of Nature in Willa Cather’s My Ántonia Hana Stoklasová – University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Flights of Fancy: Contemporary Literary Treatments of William Shakespeare David Livingstone – Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Colonisation as a Historical Fact and Literary Metaphor in Irvine Welsh’s Marabou Stork Nightmares Markéta Gregorová – Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Eye of the Storm: A. L. Kennedy’s Fiction Ema Jelínková – Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Revisiting the Mad Scientist and Recognizing the Work of Minds in H.G. Wells’s “The Chronic Argonauts” Veronika Briatková – Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
INTERNET ACCESS Wireless connection WiFi connection is available at the conference venue. Please use the following SSID and password. SSID: UMJL Password: conference
Computers The conference participants may use computers in the ground floor of the University Centre, using the following username and password. Username: umjl1 – umjl16 (the computers are numbered 1-16, please use the number of the computer you are at) Password: knihovna Should you have any problems with the connection, do not hesitate to ask us for help.
