Contents
Preface (Ludmila Urbanová)                                                                                               3
Conference opening speech (Jan Pavlík)                                                                            7
Part One - Linguistics
1    Jaroslav Peprník
English and the Czechs - Plenary lecture                                                                       11
2   Libuše Dušková
A side view of syntactic constancy of adverbials between English and Czech                 19
3    Ludmila Urbanová
Some thoughts on the phatic communion and small talk in fictional dialogues               35
4   AlešKlégr
The Czech conditional by and its correlates in English. A parallel corpus study              43
5   Naděžda Kudrnáčová
External temporal specification in English verbs of motion                                            53
6   Jan Čermák
A typological and quantitative perspective on consonant groups in late Old and
early Middle English                                                                                                      59
7   Jaroslav Peprník
The semantics of food in Czech and English                                                                  65
8   Renata Povolná
Comment clauses in English face-to-face conversation                                                   71
9   Jan Chovanec
The uses of the present tense in headlines                                                                       83
10  Renata Pípalová
Towards paragraph typology                                                                                         93
11   Renata Kamenická
Between tentativeness and certainty: Research into one aspect of translator
behaviour                                                                                                                     103
12  Vladislav Šmolka
Subject clauses and related structures                                                                           111
13 Martin Adam
Some problems of FSP of a religious text                                                             117
14  Jana Hejlková
Some sociolinguistic aspects of professional dialogues                                           125
15  Jan Vomlela
Gender and animal nouns in selected web pages devoted to animal keeping and breeding                                                                                                         137
Part Two - Methodology
16  Eva Tandlichová
EFT coursebook in learner-centred learning and teaching                                        145
17  Zuzana Horaničová
The influence of cognitive psychology in a second language Instruction                     153
18  Radka Perdová
Primary and lower-secondary learners' beliefs about foreign language learning           157
19  Lucie Betáková
Teaching practice as a motivational factor                                                            165
20  Světlana Hanušova
Students' and graduates' views on ELTE study programmes in the Czech Republic     171
21   Natalie Orlova
Teaching American little-c culture to prospective teachers of English                        179
22  Petra Lexová
The difficulties of evaluating English courses for the public                                     185
23  Anna Hlavňová
He who hesitates will be lost                                                                              189