Confeence Programme 2015 - From Theory to Practice 2015

TENTATC
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.