SBORNÍK PRACÍ FILOZOFICKÉ FAKULTY BRNĚNSKÉ UNIVERZITY STUDIA MINORA FACULTATIS PHILOSOPHICAE UNIVERSITATIS BRUNENSIS S 4, 1998 — BRNO STUDIES IN ENGLISH 24 ______________ CONTENTS Ludmila URBANOVÁ, Professor Jan Svartvik — a new doctor honoris causa from Masaryk University.......................................................................................................7 Addenda and corrigenda to the Bibliography of Josef Vachek in BSE 23 (Josef Hladký)..............9 LINGUISTICS Jan FIRBAS, On some basic issues of the theory of functional sentence perspective V (Some more thoughts on Marie Luise Thein's critique of the theory) ........................11 Josef HLADKÝ, Notes on reduplicative words in English ...........................................................33 Naděžda KUDRNÁČOVÁ, Intentionaľity of action in body part movements ..............................79 Renata POVOLNÁ, Some notes on spatial and temporal adverbials in English conversation......87 Ludmila URBANOVÁ, Impersonality in radio interviews as a manifestation of semantic indeterminacy............................................................................................................109 Jitka VLČKOVÁ, Language and ideology: 'Nationalism' and racial coding in Australian personal advertisements ............................................................................................119 LITERATURE Milada FRANKOVÁ, The Anti-Irish Stereotype in Molly Keane's Black Comedy...................129 Anna GRMELOVÁ, 'The Prussian Officer' in the Context of D.H. Lawrence's Short Fiction ..........141 Steve HARDY, The Significance of Place in the Fictions of Raymond Williams and Iain Sinclair........................................................................................................147 REVIEWS The New Oxford Dictionary of English (Josef Hladký) ..............................................................159