Contents
Plenary Lecture
Libuše Dušková
From the Heritage of Vilém Mathesius and Jan Firbas: Syntax in the Service of FSP
Part One - Linguistics
1    Martin Adam
Functional Macrofield Perspective?                                                                   27
2    Sigbjern L. Berge
The Grammatical Nature of the English Modal Auxiliaries: a Hypothesis                  35
3    Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova
Supplementive Clauses in Resolutions                                                               43
4    Jana Chamonikolasová and Jaroslava Stašková
Some Difficulties Facing Native Speakers of Czech and Slovak in Writing in
English                                                                                                       53
5    Jan Chovanec
Czeching Out Puns and Cliches in Football Reporting                                           61
6    Milan Ferenčík
Organization of Repair in Talk-in-Interaction and Politeness                                   69
7    Naďa Kudrnáčová
On the Semantics of English Verbs of Locomotion                                               79
8    Marcela Malá
Syntactic and Semantic Differences between Nominal Relative Clauses
and Dependent wh-Interrogative Clauses                                                            85
9    Markéta Malá
Semantic Roles of Adverbial Participial Clauses                                                  91
10  Danica Maleková
The Status of Term in the Context of Law Writing                                               99
11  Michaela Martinková
Spatial Concepts in wide and broad                                                                  107
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12  Daniel Pap
A Comparative Approach to English, German and Hungarian Verbal Particles           113
13  Renata Pípalová
On the Structural Aspect of Textual Hyperthemes                                                121
14  Renata Povolná
Some Discourse Items as Response Elicitors in English Face-to-Face and
Telephone Conversation                                                                                127
15  Vladislav Šmolka
Non-extraposed Subject Clauses                                                                      137
16  Tatyana Solomonik-Pankrasova
Semantics of Old English/eorÄ: from Pagan to Christian Tradition                         145
17  Kateřina Tomková
The Perception of Non-Native Pronunciation of English by Native Speakers             151
18  Ludmila Urbanová
English Conversation: Authentic and Fictional                                                    155
19  JanaVokáčová
A Comparative View of English, Czech, French and German Idioms                       163
20  Goran Wolf
Grammarians Assess the English Language                                                        173
Part Two - Methodology
1    Lucie Betáková
Health Education in English Language Classes: A Nightmare or a Challenge?           183
2    Melinda Dooly and Randall Sadler
Computers as Toolkits: Language E-learning through International Collaboration       189
3    Kateřina Dvořáková
Distinctive Features of the Waldorf Approach to Teaching Foreign Languages
at Lower Primary Level                                                                                 197
4    Jarmila Fictumová
E-learning for Translators and Interpreters: The Case of CMS Moodle                     201
5    Světlana Hanušova and Petr Najvar
Do the Early Birds Really Catch the Worm? Demystifying the Factor of Early Age
in Language Learning                                                                                   207
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6    Teodor Hrehovčík
What Do We Teach: Applied Linguistics or Language Teaching Methodology?         213
7    Stanislava Kasíková
Designing English Language Courses in Class Server                                           221
8    Hana Smíškova
Masaryk University Internationalization Project: Learner Beliefs and Expectations     227
9    Klára Szabó, Andrea Orosz and Mária Bakti
E-utopias: Cross-curricular Teaching through Multimedia CD-ROMs in Primary Education                                                                                                   235
Part Three - Translation
1    Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek
Strategies and Methods in Dealing with Culture Specific Expressions on the Basis
of Polish-English Translations of Certain Administrative and Institutional Terms       243
2    Jiří Rambousek
Unpublished Translations of Poe's The Raven by František Nevrla                          249
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