Brno Studies in English
Volume 38, No. 1, 2012
ISSN 0524-6881
Contents
Linguistics
Małgorzata Jedynak and Joanna Pytlarz: The Issue of Gender in Multiple Language
Acquisition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Pille Põiklik: Recontextualisation of the Second Amendment and Supreme Court Decisions
in The New York Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Zuzana URBANOVÁ: Direct and Free Direct Forms of Representation in the Discourse
of Newspaper Reports: Less Frequent Phenomena  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Literary and Cultural Studies
Lorene M. BIRDEN: Layers of Naming and Responsibility in Saki’s Short Stories  . . . . . . . . . . 55
Anna GRMELOVÁ: “We Murder to Dissect”: Enjoyment of Beauty versus Theoretical
Rigour in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Ihsen Hachaichi: “There is Sex in Mind”: Scientific Determinism and the Woman
Question in Lady Audley’s Secret  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Agnieszka ŁOBODZIEC: Toni Morrison’s Discredited Magic – Magical Realism in Beloved
Revisited  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Pramod K. NAYAR: The “Disorderly Memsahib”: Political Domesticity in Alice Perrin’s
Empire Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Tomáš POSPÍŠIL: As Crippled As It Gets: Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun
(1939; 1971)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Robert TINDOL: The Star-Trek Borg as an All-American Captivity Narrative  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Piotr ZAZULA: “To Love Silence and Darkness:” Uneasy Transcendence in Louise Glück’s
Poems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Reviews
David WEBER: Bas Aarts: Oxford Modern English Grammar  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179