Brno Studies in English
Volume 36, No. 1, 2010
ISSN 0524-6881
Contents
Linguistics
Marina DOSSENA: Dialect and Vernacular Features in Late Modern English Correspondence:
Beginnings of a Quest  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Libuše Dušková: Syntactic Construction, Information Structure and Textual Role:
An Interface View of the Cleft Sentence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Jesús Fernández-Domínguez: N+N Compounding in English: Semantic Categories
and the Weight of Modifiers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Irena Headlandová Kalischová: Intonation in Discourse: Why Do Czech Speakers
of English Not Always Use It to Enhance the Meaning?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Leonhard LIPKA: Observational Linguistics, Neologisms, Entrenchment, and the Tea Party
Movement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
María Martínez Lirola and Bradley Smith: Contextual Functions of Predicated Themes
in Written Text: Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) as Dialogue with
Apartheid South Africa  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Dagmar SAGEDER: Terminology Today: A Science, an Art or a Practice? Some Aspects on
Terminology and Its Development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Literary and Cultural Studies
Katarina LABUDOVÁ: Power, Pain, and Manipulation in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
and The Year of the Flood  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Dominika Lewandowska: Scotland as a Space of the Imagi-nation in Alasdair Gray’s Poor
Things  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Andrew Madigan: Salinger’s Nascent Buddhism: Non-Dualism, Siddha and Wu Wei
in ‘Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut’  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
David MALCOLM: “It is America I can’t contain”: Poetry and Identity in Anne Stevenson’s
Correspondences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Ivona Mišterová: Translation and Performance: the Presentation of Shakespeare in Pilsen
in the Context of Social and Political Events in the 20th
and 21st
Centuries  . . . . . . . 175
Klara Szmańko: Representations of History in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man  . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Reviews
Jan CHOVANEC: Sally Johnson and Astrid Ensslin (eds.) Language in the Media . . . . . . . . . 205
Pavel DRÁBEK: Zdeněk Stříbrný and Zdeněk Beran (eds.) Tušivá rozpomnění: Jezerní básníci
[Shadowy Recollections: The Lake Poets]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Marta DYNEL: Neal R. Norrick and Delia Chiaro (eds.) Humor in Interaction  . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Stephen HARDY: Paul Cobley (ed.): The Routledge Companion to Semiotics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221