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Dear Colleagues,
Please find below the preliminary program of the upcoming conference.
I kindly ask you to review it and send any comments or suggestions to our traditional conference e‑mail address.
Your feedback will help us finalize the schedule and ensure that the program meets the expectations of all participants.
Thank you very much for your cooperation, and I look forward to seeing you at the conference.
Please, send us your feedback till 11th August 2025.
Thank you very much!
Best regards,
BCLSE 2025 organising team
bclse@ped.muni.cz
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ELEVENTH BRNO CONFERENCE ON LINGUISTICS STUDIES IN ENGLISH 2025
Where theory meets practice: Advances in English linguistics
Brno, 8-9 September 2025
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Monday, 8 September 2025
8:30-9:55 – registration (Room 50)
(11:00 till the end of the conference on 4th floor)
10:00-10:15 – opening (Room 50) Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova
10:15-11:10 – plenary lecture 1 (Room 50) – Milan Ferenčík
How to do things with pragmatics in public space: Using public signage as a resource for learning pragmatics
Chair: Renata Povolná
Session 1
Section A (Room 57) – The impact of AI affordances on university language teaching and learning
Chair:
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11:20-11:50
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Barbora Faktorová
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A pilot study on the linguistic impact of AI-powered automated feedback on EFL student writing
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11:50-12:20
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Xiaibo Liang
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An impact investigation of the enabling of AI to the improvement of postgraduates' academic writing capabilities
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12:20-12:50
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Jane Johnson
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Language for learning: Identifying scaffolding in EMI lectures with AI-assisted corpus annotation
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Section B (Room 58) – Implications of genre analysis in academic writing
Chair:
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11:20-11:50
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Tatiana Szczygłowska
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“According to theory, it is unwise to use ‘introductory it’ in academic writing, but…”. Section-specific variations of the structure in public health research articles
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11:50-12:20
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Tereza Guziurová
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Intertextuality in English as a lingua franca academic writing: Forms and rhetorical functions of citations in research articles
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12:20-12:50
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Erkan Külekçi
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Making research matter: A study of pedagogical implications in open access ELT articles in System
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Section C (Room 59) – Pragmatics research enhancing communicative competence in higher education
Chair:
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11:20-11:50
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Petra Trávníková
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A pragmatic approach to self-presentation in student reflective writing
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11:50-12:20
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Žaneta Voldánová
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The benefits of pragmatics instruction for university EFL students’ writing development
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12:20-12:50
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Khalid Elasri
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Enhancing intercultural competence in higher education: A conversation analysis approach to teaching interactional communication
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12:50-14:00 – lunch
Session 2
Section A (Room 57) – Advances in linguistics
Chair:
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14:00-14:30
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Peter Grundy
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The pragmatics of icons and second language teaching
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14:30-15:00
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Jarmila Tárnyikova
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A functional view of economy in discourse
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15:00-15:30
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Petra Peldová
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Local grammar of unclear(ity)
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Section B (Room 58) – Revisiting academic discourse analysis
Chair:
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14:00-14:30
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Zuzana Nádraská
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Single-word quotations in academic research articles: An inter-disciplinary approach
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14:30-15:00
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Ping He
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More informal? The diachronic change of the schematic structures and stance taking strategies in academic writing
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15:00-15:30
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Daniel Gerrard
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Establishing a presence: Self-mention in L2 (Czech) doctoral and expert writing in linguistics
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Section C (Room 59) – New insights in analysing specialised discourse
Chair:
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14:00-14:30
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Lenka Kopečková
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Decent citizens or the ugly neighbours? Framing and agenda-setting of the Georgian muslim minority in Western digital news
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14:30-15:00
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Ivana Kapráliková
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The role of emotional framing and implicit power dynamics in business negotiation discourse
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15:00-15:30
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Efthymia Garidi
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Anger in the comments: Emotionalised user discourse on news media posts in English and Greek
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15:30-15:45 – coffee break
Session 3
Section A (Room 57) – Advances in construction grammar
Chair:
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15:45-16:15
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Masaru Kanetani
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The R-over-Q strategy and its meaning in English
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16:15-16:45
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Kensei Sugayama
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On the PP object construction in English
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Section B (Room 58) – Discourse markers in L2 English
Chair:
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15:45-16:15
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Silvie Válková
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The use of discourse markers among Czech university students (English-Czech interface)
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16:15-16:45
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Mohammad Alenezi
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Patterning discourse-pragmatic markers in Kuwaiti English
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Section C (Room 59) – Exploring linguistic landscapes
Chair:
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15:45-16:15
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Shamlan al-Qenaie
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Mapping sounds in the commercial linguistic landscape of Kuwait: A workable solution
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16:15-16:45
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Chaowei Pang
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Negotiating culture and authenticity: The English linguistic landscape in the forbidden city
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17:30-18:15 – city walk
19:00-21:30 – conference dinner
Tuesday, 9th September 2025
Session 4
Section A (Room 57) – Advances in ELT
Chair:
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9:00-9:30
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Ulrike Tabbert
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Enhancing Iraqi EFL learners’ ability to analyse poetic language by using the framework of Textual Stylistics
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9:30-10:00
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Colin Rundle & Forrest Nelson
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Introducing the CEFR & a language portfolio in a Japanese university: Local responses to a global challenge
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10:00-10:30
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Yasemin Kırkgöz
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Insights from pre-service teachers on the future of Global English
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Section B (Room 58) – AI applications in applied linguistics
Chair:
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9:00-9:30
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Christopher Williams
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No teacher, no problem? ChatGPT as a speaking practice partner
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9:30-10:00
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Xuchuan Chen
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Chinese university students’ dynamic perceptions of GenAI in English learning: An inquiry based on visual metaphors
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10:00-10:30
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Reima Al-Jarf
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AI translation of contrastive, emphatic negation in Arabic discourse
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Section C (Room 59) – New developments in cognitive linguistics
Chair:
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9:00-9:30
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Piotr Mamet & Anna Majer
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Architecture as a source domain of metaphors in Business English: A cognitive study based on Robert Patterson’s compendia of banking, finance and accounting terms
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9:30-10:00
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Jelena Kirejeva
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Conceptualising Russian culture as the Enemy: An emotion-centered perspective
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10:00-10:30
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Radek Vogel
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Metonymically motivated metaphors in conceptual and terminological frames in emerging social science terminologies
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10:30-10:50 – coffee break
10:50-11:45 – plenary lecture (Room 50) – Ruth Breeze
Researching emotions in discourse: How can corpus linguistics help?
Chair: Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova
Session 5
Section A (Room 57) – Multimodal discourse analysis of specialised discourse
Chair:
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12:00-12:30
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Charles Ononiwu
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Power, politics, and active citizenship: A multimodal analysis of political cartoons from Nigeria’s and Finland’s 2023 elections
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12:30-13:00
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Rong Xiao
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Discursive construction of wartime memory on the official website of IWM: Combining multimodal discourse analysis and topic modeling
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Section B (Room 58) – Insights into L2 discourse
Chair:
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12:00-12:30
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Petra Huschová
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Possibility modal verbs in learner academic discourse: Insights from Czech learners of English
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12:30-13:00
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Michaela Čakányová
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The subjunctive mood in Czech ESL classrooms: Taught, acquired, or ignored?
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Section C (Room 59) – Bridging research and practice in the teaching of grammar
Chair:
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12:00-12:30
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Jaroslav Emmer
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Towards a functional and corpus-informed approach to the present perfect
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12:30-13:00
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Mihaela Zamfirescu
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Modulating negation with intensional operators
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12:45-13:00 – coffee break
Session 6
Section A (Room 57) – Developments in translation studies
Chair:
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13:00-13:30
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János Nagy
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Communicative dynamism of dialectal elements in translation
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13:30-14:00
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Vladislav Smolka & Renáta Timková
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Identification of rhematic subjects by Slovak and Czech students in English and in their native languages
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14:00-14:30
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Ming Liu
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Embracing technology: A study on machine translation tool adoption in English academic writing among Chinese STEM postgraduates
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Section B (Room 58) – Applications of language theory in classroom practice
Chair:
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13:00-13:30
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Sarah Dobiášová
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Crafting engaging ESP study materials using language corpora
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13:30-14:00
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Alexey Tymbay
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Merging language theory with classroom practice for teaching effective communication in a foreign language
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14:00-14:30
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Hammad Alshammari
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Assessing the assessments: Misalignment between practice tests and authentic reading skills in Saudi EFL contexts
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Section C (Room 59) – Literary discourse research and its application
Chair:
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13:00-13:30
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Ahmad Kareem Salem Al Wuhaili
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Ideological depiction of loss in Four Faces of Loss
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13:30-14:00
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Gunay Alizada
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The representation of Harry Potter books in English media texts
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14:30 - Conference closing (Room 57)
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