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British and American Studies / Xxv WEST UNIVERSITY OF TIMIŞOARA DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH BRITISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES / XXV TIMIŞOARA, MAY 21-23, 2015 CONFERENCE ORGANISERS Department of English, West University of Timişoara CONFERENCE COORDINATORS Hortensia Pârlog Luminiţa Frenţiu Loredana Pungă Reghina Dascăl Sponsored by West University of Timişoara; The Department of English; The British Council, Romania; Longman Romania; Oxford Educational Centre. CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Thursday, May 21 8:00 - 9:00 Registration and coffee 9:00 - 11:00 Paper presentations 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 Opening address – Conference Hall BCUT (University Library) Prof. Dr. Marilen Pirtea, Rector Dr. Dan Lazea, Vice-Rector Dr. Dana Percec, Dean, Faculty of Letters Dr. Nigel Townson, Director, British Council Romania Prof. Dr. Smiljana Komar, Secretary of ESSE Dr. Loredana Pungă, Head of the Modern Languages Department Prof. Dr. Hortensia Pârlog 12:00 - 13:00 Plenary lecture – Conference Hall BCUT (University Library) Professor David Crystal, Fellow of the British Academy, Honorary Professor of Linguistics at University of Wales, Bangor Language and the Internet 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break 14:00 - 16:30 Paper presentations 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break 17:00 - 19:00 Paper presentations 20:30 Cocktail Baza Sportivă nr.2 Politehnica Restaurant – 2, Păunescu Podeanu St Friday, May 22 9:30 - 11:30 Paper presentations 11:30 - 12:00 Coffee break 12.00 - 13:00 The ceremony of conferring an honorary doctorate on Professor David Crystal – Aula Magna 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break 14:00 - 16:00 Paper presentations 16:00 - 17:00 Plenary lecture – Hall A12 Professor David Crystal, Fellow of the British Academy, Honorary Professor of Linguistics at University of Wales, Bangor The Story of English in 100 Words 17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break 17:30 - 19:00 Paper presentations 20:00 Conference dinner Saturday, May 23 10:00 – 15:00 Outing to Bodrog Monastery; poetry reading by Ross Donlon and Stephen Tapscott Thursday, May 21, 9:00 - 11:00 BRITISH LITERATURE AMERICAN LITERATURE CULTURAL STUDIES GENDER STUDIES LANGUAGE STUDIES ELT Room: 328 Room: 330 Room: 521 Room: 522 Room: 201 Room: 523 Moderator: Pia Brînzeu Moderator: Cristina Chevereșan Moderator: Codruța Goșa Moderator: Reghina Dascăl Moderator: Loredana Pungă Moderator: Valentina Carina Mureșan Florentina Anghel Ludmila Martanovschi Julianna Borbély Uliana Kshenovskaya Marcela Malá Anca Cehan Human (In)Consistencies in Ian The Return of the (Prodigal) Son in Lordship and Bondage: Virtual Linguistic Personality - A Diachronic Change in the Use Monolingualism and Its Heritage McEwan’s Amsterdam Rita Dove’s and Luis Alfaro’s Portrayal of Evil in the Does Gender Make a Difference of Non-Finite Clauses in Written Adaptations of Oedipus the King Hannibal Series in the Use of Blogs? English Alina Daniela Suciu Uroš Mozetič Maurice N. Fadel Simona Lozovschi Gordana Dimković Valentina Carina Mureșan Collaborative Writing - Emily The Plays of Eugene O’Neill on the Crime Fiction and Religion The Multiple Other in Ana Telebaković From Question/Answer Interaction Gerard and Dorothea Gerard Slovene Stage: Contexts and Castillo’s So Far from God Phrase Structure Patterning for to Classroom Conversation Conditions Some English and Serbian Adverb Subclasses Simonetta Falchi Alina Ciobotaru Elena Butoescu Reghina Dascăl Claudia-Elena Stoian and Mihaela Cozma Davies’s Dickens Riding the Line between Macondo Eighteenth-Century Garden Ventriloquized Female Daniel Dejica Learner Multiple Identities in the and McOndo: Junot Diaz’s Own Manuals: Old Practice, New Voices: Nicholas Breton and Thematic Development in English Language Instruction Particular Brand of Magical Realism Professions the Countess of Online Institutional Tourism in The Brief and Wondrous Life of Pembroke Discourse: A Contrastive Study Oscar Wao Dana Crăciun Vesna Tripković-Samardžić Matúš Hrubovčák Chronicles of Deaths Foretold: Contradictions of Society in A Sociolinguistic Research into The Diaries of Virginia Woolf Tennessee Williams’s Plays Word-Formation Strategies and Sylvia Plath Thursday, May 21, 14:00 –16:30 BRITISH LITERATURE AMERICAN LITERATURE CULTURAL STUDIES LANGUAGE STUDIES TRANSLATION STUDIES Room: 328 Room: 330 Room: 522 Room: 201 Room: 523 Moderator: Ileana Șora Moderator: Terence Craig Moderator: Maurice N. Fadel Moderator: Brian Imhoff Moderator: Carla Fusco Dumitriu Erika Ada Jelena Dostanić Peter Gaál-Szabó Alina Bugheșiu Titela Vîlceanu More than Human: The Mad All the Faces of Love in the Novel African American Religiosity from a Proper Names and Multilingual Puns Doing Cross-Cultural Pragmatics Scientists of H. G. Wells Love by Toni Morrison Co-Cultural Perspective in the 1950s in Romanian Advertisements in Translation. Ways of and 60s Achieving Common Ground Dragoș Ivana Simona Catrinel Avarvarei Catherine MacMillan Emese Boksay-Pap Daniel Dejica and Claudia The Perils of Sentimental Philosophy Frontier Crossing as The European Union as a Totalitarian How Many Languages Do You Stoian in Mary Hays’s Memoirs of Emma (Re)Interpretation of the Quest for Nightmare: Dystopian Visions in the Need? Language Teachers’ Approach Properties and Qualities of Courtney Identity Discourse of UKIP to Their Multilingual Students’ Ways Translated Technical of Solving Linguistic Problems Documentation into Romanian Anna Kędra-Kardela Irina Elena Grigore Robert Manning Ruxandra Vișan Nada Marija Groselj The Experience of the Uncanny: The Art of Simulation and America, Romania, Holocaust Linguists, Romglish and “Verbal When Style Outshines the Reading E. Bowen’s Short Story Manoeuvring: S.I.M.U.V.A.C. and History and Holocaust Politics Hygiene” Content: Translating P. G. “Coming Home” “Wag the Dog” Wodehouse Ileana Șora Dimitriu Oana-Raisa Stoleriu Dana Vasiliu Andrea Csillag Mariana Neagu Anticipating the Future: Utopia in Strings of Life: Memory as Myth in Investigating the Changing Nature of Metaphors of Happiness in English Changes and Challenges in Two Nadine Gordimer’s Fiction Porter’s Miranda Stories Feminine Identity: a Sherlockian and Russian Translations of the Same Target Conundrum Text Irina Rață Claudia Doroholschi Luminița Frențiu “Only the Gods are real.” Mythopoeic Biography and Emplotment in Verbal and Non-verbal Dimension in Neil Gaiman’s Andrew Graham Dixon’s Caravaggio Communication in the Victorian Era American Gods Thursday, May 21, 17:00–19:00 BRITISH LITERATURE AMERICAN LITERATURE GENDER STUDIES LANGUAGE STUDIES TRANSLATION STUDIES Room: 328 Room: 330 Room: 522 Room: 201 Room: 523 Moderator: Alice Bailey Cheylan Moderator: Stephen Tapscott Moderator: Michaela Mudure Moderator: Brian Mott Moderator: Daniel Dejica Alice Bailey Cheylan Alexandru Budac Eliana Ionoaia Sophia Huber Aba-Carina Pârlog Ford Madox Ford: Travel Writing in The Blue and the White. Visual Women and Industry in the Victorian African American Vernacular English Formal (Non-)Equivalence Provence Narrative in Steve Erickson’s Days Industrial Novel in Selected Literary Works Between Stations Claudia Novosivschei Cristina Chevereşan Hildegard Klein Hagen Nadina Cehan Sudrutai Arunsirot America Is a Democracy Whereas “They Can’t Silence Me!”: A Brief Female Sex Tourism in the Caribbean Kingsley Amis, the Prescriptivist A Systemic Functional Grammar Australia Stayed a Bureaucracy History of “Pinoys” – a “Fair Trade” or a New Kind of Approach to Translation Error Colonial Exploitation? – Tanika Analysis: A Case Study of Thai EFL Gupta’s Sugar Mummies and debbie Learners tucker green’s trade. Mojca Krevel Loredana Bercuci Alina Ilief-Martinescu Brian Imhoff Diana Oțăt Time Being on Time: A Postmodern Grief and Trauma in Joan Didion’s Postfeminism in Chick Lit Novels Advances in Language and Cognition Developing Students’ Multi-layered Tale The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) Translation Competences – An and Blue Nights (2011) Applied Computer-Assisted Method Tim Haner Șerban-Dan Blidariu Adriana Raducanu Cristina Mihaela Zamfir Carla Fusco Frankenstein and the Rhetoric of The Role of Education in a Slave’s Interrogating Urban Spaces: Kali and Internal Representation, Frame and The Translation of Italian Dishes in Shakespearean Tragedy Path toward Freedom: the Cases of the Writer in Two Contemporary Context in the Dynamics of Business American Restaurants: the Difficult Frederick Douglass and Topsy Detective Novels Interactions: An NLP Perspective Balance between Identity and Integration Friday, May 22, 9:30-11:30 BRITISH LITERATURE AMERICAN LITERATURE GENDER STUDIES LANGUAGE STUDIES CULTURAL STUDIES Room: 328 Room: 521 Room: 522 Room: 201 Room: 523 Moderator: Isabelle Schwartz- Moderator: Uroš Mozetič Moderator: Hildegard Klein Moderator: Henryk Kardela Moderator: Robert Manning Gastine Hagen Aleksandra Kędzierska Ingrida Zindziuviene Michaela Mudure Brian Mott Dan Horaţiu Popescu In the Autumn of Life: S. Heaney’s New Forms of the Contemporary The Gerard Sisters and Romania The Semantic Prosodies and The River-Metaphor in Patrick Human Chain American Novel Associations of Spanish nervioso and Leigh Fermor’s Between the Woods English nervous and the Water Joshi Rakesh Chandra Terrence Craig Anca Iancu Hans Sauer Mirela Lăpugean Symbolist Tradition and T.S. Eliot’s American Journalism and Literature Crossing Cultures: Gendered Binomials in some English Translations Post 9/11 America: In Search of a Theory of Objective Correlative Subsuming British Colonialism Identities of Contemporary of the Lotus Sutra Narrative American Immigrant Women Elisabeta Simona Catană Aurelija Daukšaitė Adela Livia Catană Daria Protopopescu
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