Brno Studies in English
Volume 35, no. 1, 2009
iSSn 0524-6881
CONTENTS
the Fiftieth Anniversary of Brno Studies in English (Preface). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
ludmila urBAnoVá: in honour of Josef Vachek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
LINGUISTICS
Miroslav BáZliK: Common errors Committed in translating (not only) legal
documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Marta dYnel: Where Cooperation Meets Politeness: revisiting Politeness Models in View
of the gricean Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
isabel erMidA: When the trails go Cold: British Press narratives on Maddie . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
María Martínez lirolA: immigration news in the Free Press: linguistic and Visual
Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
LITERARy ANd CULTURAL STUdIES
Aylin AtillA: Between the Acts: A Step Beyond the traditional historical novel . . . . . . . . . . 77
Klára BiCAnoVá: the dangers of Wit: re-examination of C.S. lewis's Study of a Word . . . 87
Anna CeterA: translating the translated: the evergreen Classics Storm the Publishing
Market Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
rainer eMig: reverse translation ­ Perverse translation? the Strategies of Alexander
McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies'Detective Agency novels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
roy goldBlAtt: Work as a Mode of Assimilation in twentieth-Century Jewish American
literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
JankaKAŠČÁKOVÁ:"MyFlowerlessOnes":RepresentationsofUnmarriedWomen
intheShortStoriesofKatherineMansfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
dagmar PegueS: regional Aesthetics: the Formation of identities and Stereotypes
in the Fiction of grace King and Kate Chopin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
ŞebnemTOPLU:Woman'sThirdAge:The Seven Sisters by Margaret drabble . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
REvIEwS
Jan ChoVAneC: Anthony J. liddicoat: An Introduction to Conversation Analysis . . . . . . . . 185
Stephen P. hArdY and Michael M. KAYlor: Martin Procházka: Transversals . . . . . . . . . . 189