Conference programme
Programme
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
ELEVENTH BRNO CONFERENCE ON LINGUISTICS STUDIES IN ENGLISH 2025
Where theory meets practice: Advances in English linguistics
Brno, 8-9 September 2025
Monday, 8 September 2025
8:30-9:55 – registration (Room A1)
(11:00 until the end of the conference on 4th floor)
10:00-10:15 – opening (Room A1)
10:15-11:10 – plenary lecture 1 (Room A1) – 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 A41) – The impact of AI affordances on university language teaching and learning
Chair: Silvie Válková
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11:20-11:50 |
Barbora Faktorová |
A pilot study on the linguistic impact of AI-powered automated feedback on EFL student writing |
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11:50-12:20 |
Xiaibo Liang |
An impact investigation of the enabling of AI to the improvement of postgraduates' academic writing capabilities |
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12:20-12:50 |
Christopher Williams |
No teacher, no problem? ChatGPT as a speaking practice partner |
Section B (Room A43) – Implications of genre analysis in academic writing
Chair: Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova
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11:20-11:50 |
Tatiana Szczygłowska |
“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 |
Tereza Guziurová |
Intertextuality in English as a lingua franca academic writing: Forms and rhetorical functions of citations in research articles |
Section C (Room A45) – Linguistics research enhancing communicative competence in higher education
Chair: Radek Vogel
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11:20-11:50 |
Petra Trávníková |
A pragmatic approach to self-presentation in student reflective writing |
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11:50-12:20 |
Žaneta Voldánová |
The benefits of pragmatics instruction for university EFL students’ writing development |
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12:20-12:50 |
Ulrike Tabbert |
Enhancing Iraqi EFL learners’ ability to analyse poetic language by using the framework of Textual Stylistics |
12:50-14:00 – lunch
Session 2
Section A (Room A41) – Advances in linguistics
Chair: Renata Jančaříková
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14:00-14:30 |
Peter Grundy |
The pragmatics of icons and second language teaching |
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14:30-15:00 |
Petra Peldová |
Local grammar of unclear(ity) |
Section B (Room A43) – Revisiting academic discourse analysis
Chair: Christopher Williams
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14:00-14:30 |
Zuzana Nádraská |
Single-word quotations in academic research articles: An inter-disciplinary approach |
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14:30-15:00 |
Ping He |
More informal? The diachronic change of the schematic structures and stance taking strategies in academic writing |
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15:00-15:30 |
Daniel Gerrard
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Establishing a presence: Self-mention in L2 (Czech) doctoral and expert writing in linguistics |
Section C (Room A45) – New insights in analysing specialised discourse
Chair: Helena Worthington
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14:00-14:30 |
Lenka Kopečková |
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 |
Ivana Kapráliková |
The role of emotional framing and implicit power dynamics in business negotiation discourse |
15:30-15:45 – coffee break
Session 3
Section A (Room A41) – Advances in construction grammar
Chair: Lenka Kopečková
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15:45-16:15 |
Masaru Kanetani |
The R-over-Q strategy and its meaning in English |
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16:15-16:45 |
Kensei Sugayama |
On the PP object construction in English |
Section B (Room A43) – Discourse markers in L2 English
Chair: Renata Povolná
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15:45-16:15 |
Silvie Válková |
The use of discourse markers among Czech university students (English-Czech interface) |
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16:15-16:45 |
Mohammad Alenezi |
Patterning discourse-pragmatic markers in Kuwaiti English |
Section C (Room A45) – Exploring linguistic landscapes
Chair: Radek Vogel
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15:45-16:15 |
Shamlan al-Qenaie |
Mapping sounds in the commercial linguistic landscape of Kuwait: A workable solution |
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16:15-16:45 |
Chaowei Pang |
Negotiating culture and authenticity: The English linguistic landscape in the forbidden city |
17:30-18:45 – city walk
19:15-22:00 – conference dinner
Tuesday, 9th September 2025
Session 4
Section A (Room A41) – Advances in ELT
Chair: Christopher Williams
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9:00-9:30 |
Alexey Tymbay |
Merging language theory with classroom practice for teaching effective communication in a foreign language |
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9:30-10:00 |
Colin Rundle & Forrest Nelson |
Introducing the CEFR & a language portfolio in a Japanese university: Local responses to a global challenge |
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10:00-10:30 |
Yasemin Kırkgöz |
Insights from pre-service teachers on the future of Global English |
Section B (Room A43) – AI applications in applied linguistics
Chair: Tereza Guziurová
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9:00-9:30 |
Ming Liu |
Embracing technology: A study on machine translation tool adoption in English academic writing among Chinese STEM postgraduates |
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9:30-10:00 |
Xuchuan Chen |
Chinese university students’ dynamic perceptions of GenAI in English learning: An inquiry based on visual metaphors |
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10:00-10:30 |
Reima Al-Jarf |
AI translation of contrastive, emphatic negation in Arabic discourse |
Section C (Room A45) – New developments in cognitive linguistics
Chair: Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova
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9:00-9:30 |
Piotr Mamet & Anna Majer |
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 |
Radek Vogel |
Metonymically motivated metaphors in conceptual and terminological frames in emerging social science terminologies |
10:30-10:50 – coffee break
10:50-11:45 – plenary lecture (Room A1) – Ruth Breeze
Researching emotions in discourse: How can corpus linguistics help?
Chair: Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova
Session 5
Section A (Room A41) – Insights into L2 discourse
Chair: Renata Povolná
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12:00-12:30 |
Petra Huschová |
Possibility modal verbs in learner academic discourse: Insights from Czech learners of English |
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12:30-13:00 |
Michaela Čakányová |
The subjunctive mood in Czech ESL classrooms: Taught, acquired, or ignored? |
Section B (Room A43) – Bridging research and practice in the teaching of grammar
Chair: Renata Jančaříková
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12:00-12:30 |
Jaroslav Emmer & Kateřina Klementová |
Towards a functional and corpus-informed approach to the present perfect |
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12:30-13:00 |
Mihaela Zamfirescu & Cosmin Bădulețeanu & Diana Ștefan-Dinescu |
Modulating negation with intensional operators |
12:45-13:00 – coffee break
Session 6
Section A (Room A41) – Information processing
Chair: Radek Vogel
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13:00-13:30 |
Vladislav Smolka & Renáta Timková |
Identification of rhematic subjects by Slovak and Czech students in English and in their native languages |
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13:30-14:00 |
János Nagy |
Communicative dynamism of dialectal elements in translation |
Section B (Room A43) – Applications of linguistic theory
Chair: Helena Worthington
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13:00-13:30 |
Rong Xiao |
Discursive construction of wartime memory on the official website of IWM: Combining multimodal discourse analysis and topic modeling |
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13:30-14:00 |
Ahmad Kareem Salem Al Wuhaili |
Ideological depiction of loss in Four Faces of Loss |
14:00 - Conference closing (Room A41)
BOOK OF ABSTRACTS
MASARYK UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
Brno, Masaryk University, 8-9 September 2025
ELEVENTH BRNO CONFERENCE
ON LINGUISTICS STUDIES IN ENGLISH 2025
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