6th Nitra Conference on Discourse Studies

Conference Program
DAY 1 – March 19, 2015
8.00-9.00 Registration, ground floor
9.00-9.20 Conference opening

Plenary Session 1
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Where: Sieň Konštantína Filozofa, 3 floor

9.20-10.00 Pragmatic and discourse phenomena in classical rhetoric - Michael Burke

10.00-10.40 Constructing the other: the role of linguistic opposition - Lesley Jeffries

10.40-11.00 Discussion and coffee break

Section 1 Section 2
Discourse analysis/ variety of discourse types Media discourse
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Where: Sieň Konštantína Filozofa, 3 floor Where: Uniklub, ground floor

11.00-11.20 Crossing the Borders: US and THEM Distinction in Web-news Headlines Emerging Political Expressions in Arab Spring Media – Reima Al-Jarf
on Immigration – Barbora Blažková

11.20-11.40 Personal shifts and alternations in coach register in sport discourse – Je ne suis pas Charlie: Metadiscourse of impoliteness following the ´France´s 9/11´
Daniela Slančová, Terezia Slančová in selected print media – Milan Ferenčík

11.40-12.00 Stance-taking and Identity Construction in Supervisor-Supervisee Slurs, insults, and threats in the campaign for status: Yanomamo and urban-
Interaction – Rami Deli American cultural contexts - Adam Croom

12.00-12.20 Conceptualizing the Metaphors in the Narratives of Drug Abusers – Minority language use in the case of Macedonia: a principal political arrangement
Monika Gyuro or a context-bound challenge? – Nenad Markovikj, Zoran Ilievski

12.20-12.40 Conceptual Metaphors in Ukrainian Prime Ministers’ Discourse Vision for Sustainable Development: Pragmatic Strategies of Media Political
Involving Renewables – Oleksandr Kapranov Competitive Encounters - Samuel Alaba Akinwotu

12.40-13.00 Metaphoric conceptualizations of Ebola in The New York Times and The New York
Daily News – Dita Trčková

13.00-14.30 Lunch
 Plenary Session 2
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Where: Sieň Konštantína Filozofa, 3 floor

14.30-15.10 Cultural cognition and conceptual horizons for socially situated discourse - László Imre Komlósi

15.10-15.50 Corpora, cognition and steam: towards a new mainstream in stylistics - Dan McIntyre

Section 3 Section 4
Discourse analysis and ESL/ELT applications
Discourse variety/genre(s) Where: Uniklub, ground floor
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Where: Sieň Konštantína Filozofa, 3 floor

15.50-16.10 Slamming in 140 Characters or Fewer: Indexing the Other through EFL (English as a Foreign Language) Learners’ Reflections and Discourse Analysis of
Parody on Twitter – Kathryn Showers-Curtis Informative Speeches – Dean Dawson

16.10-16.30 Evaluation in book reviews – Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova Exploring the L2 abstracts of the Master´s theses at the Faculty of Civil
Engineering: discourse analysis of professional English texts – Jolana Tlukova

16.30-16.50 On some language means enhancing the interactive character of Hedging Among Advanced L2 Users Of English: Epistemic Evidential And
research articles – Renata Povolná Judgement Verbs – Jacinta Edusei

16.50-17.10 Identity Construction of a Chinese International Student in Canada---A Foreign language students’ intercultural communicative competence diagnostics
Discourse Analysis of Diary – Jing Cui in the Republic of Kazakhstan – Markhabat Kassymbekova

17.10-17.30 The Genre Of The Conference Abstract In English And Ukrainian The development of Vocational Foreign Language Competence for ESP students:
Academic Discourses: Theoretical And Applied Aspects – Svitlana The case of Kazakh National Agrarian University students – Zhanar Zhyltyrova
Markelova

17.30-17.50 Demotivational poster as a new creolized text – Tatsiana Svishchuk The Impact of the Representation of Marriage in Algerian Children’s Fiction on
children’s identity construction: A Discursive Analytical Analysis – Bakhta
Abdelhay

17.50-18.10 Ethno-cultural peculiarities of the Indians in the discourse of a myth – Semantic changes of English loanwords in Japanese – Kazuyuki Yamaguchi
Nurgul Saparkhojayeva

19.00 Conference dinner

DAY 2 – March 20, 2015
Plenary Session 3
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Where: Sieň Konštantína Filozofa, 3 floor

9.00-9.40 A new literary Slovak English - Mark Lencho

9.40-10.20 How Can Students Find their Academic Discourse? Student Choices in BA / MA Theses in Germany and World-Wide - Josef Schmied

10.20-10.40 Discussion and coffee break

Section 5 Section 6
General/Miscellaneous General/Miscellaneous
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Where: Sieň Konštantína Filozofa, 3 floor Where: Uniklub, ground floor

10.40-11.00 Ways of term formation in linguistic discourse –Olha Ivashchyshyn, Iconicity as a means of maximizing the impact of public service advertisement
Lesya Myslovska texts: diachronic perspective – Anna Ovodova

11.00-11.20 Usages of may and will in Chinese and German Student Writings: A The role of discourse markers in rhetorical questions – Anita Schirm
corpus-based Comparison - Jessica Küchler

11.20-11.40 The typological characteristic of pseudonyms in different languages Identity, Inconsistency: Translating Pronouns and Proper Names from 12th
(Kazakh, Russian and English) – Nurgul Saparkhojayeva Century Japanese in Torikaebaya Monogatari – Annabelle Bruno

11.40-12.00 Occupation for Justice and Knowledge: Observations on the ongoing Enhanced or Lessened? Impoliteness Translation in Professional Subtitles versus
extra-institutional politics of defiance and subversion by the students of Fansubs - Anita Żytowicz, Anna Klein
the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in R. Macedonia – Aleksandar
Takovski

12.00-12.20 Rediscovering cross-cultural semantic universals – Václav Řeřicha Cultural symbols in the linguistic landscape of the Baltic States – Solvita Poseiko

12.20-12.40 Acknowledgements in Scientific Discourse – Anna Balyuk How We Experience Stories. Reading fiction across the cultures – Libor Práger

12.40-13.00 Influence of democratization on semantic processes in cultural sphere of Modern

English language – Yuliya Shtaltovna

13.00-14.20 Lunch
 Section 7 Section 8
General/Miscellaneous General/Miscellaneous
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Where: Sieň Konštantína Filozofa, 3 floor Where: Uniklub, ground floor

14.20-14.40 Proverbs as discourse strategy in Yoruba cultural interactions – Taiwo Register, Genre and Style in Relation to ESL/EFL – Jan Pikhart
Ehineni Skype

14.40-15.00 Ellipsis in noun phrase in the Macedonian language – Blagojka Online Political Commentary: pragmatic strategies for connecting with readers –
Zdravkovska-Adamova Skype Alan Dykstra

15.00-15.20 Developing students' critical discourse analysis skills – Perizat Principles of text relationships’ development: Centering theory in practice – Alena
Yelubayeva Skype Poncarová

15.20-15.40 Functions and effects of Discourse Markers in humorous discourse – Connotation and denotation in the discourse of marginal sublanguages – Peter
Anna Nagy Skype Toporkov

15.40 Conference closing

17.00 Sightseeing: Nitra Castle and Diocese Library