Brno Studies in English
Volume 37, No. 1, 2011
ISSN 0524-6881
Contents
Linguistics
Martin ADAM: Towards a Syntactic-Semantic Typology of Presentation Scale Sentences
in Fiction Narratives  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Magdaléna BILÁ and Anna DŽAMBOVÁ: A Preliminary Study on the Function of Silent
Pauses in L1 and L2 Speakers of English and German  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Marta DYNEL: Stranger than Fiction? A Few Methodological Notes on Linguistic Research
in Film Discourse  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Ela KREJČOVÁ: “That’s an Interesting Question, Indeed, not Only for You and I”:
A (Non-Systematic) Fluctuation of Personal Pronoun Forms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Paul LENNON: Ludic Language: The Case of the Punning Echoic Allusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Judit NAGY: Metaphors of Weather in Canadian Short Prose  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Douglas PONTON: Getting Past the Gatekeepers: Membership and Identity in 5-Live’s ‘World
Football Phone-in’  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Barbara SOUKUP: Speaker Design in the Context of Southern American English: Process
Models and Empirical Evidence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Dita TRČKOVÁ: Multi-Functionality of Metaphor in Newspaper Discourse  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Ludmila ZEMKOVÁ: The Analysis of Gender Markers in Animals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Literary and Cultural Studies
Milena KOSTIĆ: Pop Culture in Mark Ravenhill’s Plays Shopping and Fucking and Faust
is Dead  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Iva POLAK: The One about Coyote Going West: Mimesis and Ethics in Multicultural Literary
Landscapes of Canada and Australia  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173