NINTH BRNO CONFERENCE ON LINGUISTICS STUDIES IN ENGLISH 2021
PATTERNS AND VARIATION IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE DISCOURSE
Brno, 16-17 September 2021
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Thursday, 16 September 2021
9:15-9:30 – opening (General) Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova
9:30-10:30 – plenary lecture (Room 1) – Jarmila Tárnyiková
The multifaceted and whimsical nature of discourse
Chair: Renata Povolná
Session 1
Section A (Room 1) – Online discourse
Chair: Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova
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10:40-11:05 |
Enrique Lafuente-Millán |
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11:05-11:30 |
Isabel Herrando, Pedro Satústegui & Noelia Navas |
Disinformation and COVID in Spain: Disseminating (para)scientific knowledge through podcasts |
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11:30-11:55 |
Zeinab Gvarishvili & Nana Mazmishvili |
Tendencies of threatening techniques utilization in covid-19 related discourse in Georgian and English online news reports |
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11:55-12:20 |
Peter Bojo and Daniel Lančarič |
Structural reduction, a new phenomenon in an “old” language |
Section B (Room 2) – Discourse and grammar
Chair: Renata Jančaříková
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10:40-11:05 |
Mégane Lesuisse |
On the use of cardinal posture verbs as locative markers in English: From diachronic motives to conversational need |
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11:05-11:30 |
Tomáš Lorman |
The suffix -ish: A study of degrammaticalization |
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11:30-11:55 |
Yolanda Fernández-Pena |
An empirical characterisation of free-standing fragments in present-day written English discourse |
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11:55-12:20 |
Eva Nováková |
Where to shift Czech “vid”: Translation strategies applied to Czech aspectual prefixes |
12:30-13:20 – Poster session (Room 2)
Chair: Martin Adam
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12:30-12:40 |
Hana Atcheson |
Formulaic expressions in native and non-native writing: Comparative corpus study |
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12:40-12:50 |
Monika Gyuró |
Temporal referencing in the narratives of chronic patients |
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12:50-13:00 |
Franco Tondi |
British and American English: A reciprocal influence |
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13:00-13:10 |
Christopher Williams |
English fluency development in Czech students before and after their transition from grammar school to university |
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13:10-13:20 |
Oksana (Hanna) Lozynska |
The structure of macro-conceptual complex in a short story text |
13:20-14:10 – lunch
14:10-15:10 – plenary lecture (Room 1) – Marina Bondi
Exploring CSR discourse: Patterns and variation
Chair: Martin Adam
Session 2
Section A (Room 1) – Learner discourse
Chair: Renata Povolná
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15:20-15:45 |
Markéta Malá |
Hedging like a professional: A corpus-driven approach to interactional metadiscourse in English learner academic writing |
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15:45-16:10 |
Marie Lahodová Vališová |
Internal and external request modifications used by Czech university students in English as a foreign language |
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16:10-16:35 |
Věra Sládková |
Grammatical collocations in English essays written by Czech secondary school students |
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16:35-17:00 |
Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova & Renata Jančaříková |
Theme zones in learner academic discourse: Patterning and realisations |
Section B (Room 2) – Specialized/Professional discourse
Chair: Irena Headlandová Kalischová
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15:20-15:45 |
Magdalena Szczyrbak |
‘No, I’m not asking about domestic violence. I’m asking very specific questions about ...’ On the use of negation in expert witness cross-examination |
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15:45-16:10 |
Aleksandra Radovanović |
Possibility modals in English tourism discourse: Variation across three web registers |
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16:10-16:35 |
Azad Mammadov & Jamila Agamaliyeva |
Pragmatic function of ellipsis in political interview: A corpus-assisted conversation analysis |
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16:35-17:00 |
Elena Kulikova |
Precedential phenomena patterns and variation in advertising discourse |
17:00-17:10 – coffee break
Session 3
Section A (Room 1) – Sociolinguistic variation
Chair: Martin Adam
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17:10-17:35 |
Veronika Lovrits |
Adverse “native speaker” effects following Anglophones in the multilingual workplace |
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17:35-18:00 |
Giorgia Riboni |
“Even though we look different on the outside, our hearts beat the same”: Interracial adoption narratives in children’s books |
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18:00-18:25 |
Ellen Thompson & Cesar Medina |
Language attitudes of multilingual students toward African American English Vernacular |
Section B (Room 2) – Historical development
Chair: Radek Vogel
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17:10-17:35 |
Ljubica Leone |
Phrasal verbs and analogical generalization in Late Modern Spoken English |
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17:35-18:00 |
Costin-Valentin Oancea |
A tale of two characters: Regional patterns of phonological and morphosyntactic variation in late 19thand early 20th century American English |
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18:00-18:25 |
Aysel Mammadbayli |
The role of metaphoric mapping in the rhetorical structure theory based on the analysis of English fictional texts |
Friday, 17 September 2021
9:00-10:00 – plenary lecture (Room 1) – Carmen Pérez-Llantada
Register choice and patterns of interaction across text varieties
Chair: Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilova
Session 4
Section A (Room 1) – ELT
Chair: Radek Vogel
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10:10-10:35 |
Michaela Trnová |
Aspects of vocabulary knowledge in lower-secondary EFL coursebooks |
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10:35-11:00 |
Yasunori Matsuzono |
A process-genre approach to teaching TOEFL writing independent and integrated tasks |
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11:00-11:25 |
Mariangela Picciuolo |
From here to this. Exploring spatial deixis in EMI classrooms in F2F and ODL |
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11:25-11:50 |
Žaneta Voldánová |
The effect of pragmatics instruction on the development of English students’ writing skills: A review study |
Section B (Room 2) – Academic discourse
Chair: Irena Headlandová Kalischová
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10:10-10:35 |
Tereza Guziurová |
Frame markers in English as a lingua franca academic writing |
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10:35-11:00 |
Tatiana Szczygłowska |
Patterns of formulaicity in English academic discourse: An analysis of lexical bundles in a section-coded corpus of research articles on public health |
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11:00-11:25 |
Lilia Shevyrdyaeva |
Disciplinary patterns of metadiscourse in closely related disciplines: A comparative corpus-based study of research articles in ecology and genetics |
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11:25-11:50 |
Yuka Ishikawa |
A comparative study of metadiscourse markers in engineering abstracts written by graduate students and professional researchers |
11:50-12:00 – coffee break
Session 5
Section A (Room 1) – Learner discourse
Chair: Martin Němec
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12:00-12:25 |
Petra Huschová |
Request strategies in spoken learner discourse |
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12:25-12:50 |
Shin'ichiro Ishikawa |
Asian L2 English learners’ use of epistemic stance adverbials in different types of speech tasks |
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12:50-13:15 |
Sibel Söğüt |
How L2 learners convey evaluative meanings through that-clauses: Evidence from a learner corpus of argumentative essays |
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13:15-13:40 |
Petra Trávníková |
“It was not as bad as I thought it would be”: Politeness strategies in students’ self-reflection journals |
Section B (Room 2) – Discourse and genre on the move
Chair: Renata Jančaříková
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12:00-12:25 |
Zhuzhuna Gumbaridze |
The pragmatic category of modality in covid related media briefings |
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12:25-12:50 |
Vanessa Marcella |
Linguistic analysis on climate change discourse in American and European tweets |
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12:50-13:15 |
Anna Smajdor |
Case study as a self-promotional genre |
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13:15-13:40 |
Anna Vučićević |
Academic writing in English in Serbia: A case study of book reviews |
13:50 – conference closing (Room 1)