SBORNÍK PRACÍ FILOZOFICKÉ FAKULTY BRNĚNSKÉ UNIVERZITY
STUDIA MINORA FACULTATIS PHILOSOPHICAL UNIVERSITATIS BRUNENSIS
S 6, 2000 — BRNO STUDIES IN ENGLISH 26
CONTENTS LINGUISTICS
Jana CHAMONIKOLASOVÁ, On the Capacity of Different Word Classes to Signal Prosodic
Prominence...................................................................................................................5
Naděžda KUDRNÁČOVÁ, Impulsivity and Suppressed Quantization in Body Part
Motion Verbs..............................................................................................................13
Renata POVOLNÁ, Some Notes on Spatial and Temporal Adverbials with Regard to Functional
Sentence Perspective (Based on Conversational Texts from the LLC)  ......................27
Ludmila URBANOVÁ, Accentuation in Authentic English Conversation....................................57
LITERATURE
Milada FRANKOVÁ, The Mercurial Time of Jeanette Winterson's Prose ..................................65
Lucie JANOUŠOVÁ, Chatwins' Hill............................................................................................75
CULTURAL STUDIES
Stephen HARDY, Placiality: The Renewal of the Significance of Place in Modern
Cultural Theory ..........................................................................................................85
Tomáš POSPÍŠIL, The Right Thing and After: The Construction of African American Identity
in Recent American Film..........................................................................................101