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Zlín Proceedings in Humanities Volume 3 Zlín Proceedings in Humanities This series includes volumes of proceedings from conferences and workshops inthe humanities that took place at Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic. 1. Theories in Practice: The First International Conference on English and American Studies (September 9, 2009) 2. Theories and Practice: The Second International Conference on English and American Studies (September 7–8, 2010) 3. Theories and Practices: The Third International Conference on Anglophone Studies (September 7–8, 2011) Theories and Practices Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Anglophone Studies September 7–8, 2011 Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic Edited by Roman Trušník Katarína Nemčoková Gregory Jason Bell Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně 2012 The publication costs of this volume were partly covered by the Zlín Region. Organizing Committee: Anežka Lengálová (chair) Gregory Jason Bell Dean Ronald Catchpole Hana Čechová Vladimíra Fonfárová Dagmar Machová Katarína Nemčoková Roman Trušník Reviewers: Ema Jelínková Ludmila Veselovská First Edition Arrangement copyright © Roman Trušník, Katarína Nemčoková, Gregory Jason Bell, 2012 Editors’ Note copyright © Roman Trušník, Katarína Nemčoková, Gregory Jason Bell, 2012 Papers copyright © Gregory Jason Bell, Šárka Bubíková, Miroslav Černý, Eva Čoupková, Lenka Drábková, Joseph Emonds, Jiří Flajšar, Pavlína Flajšarová, Vladimíra Fonfárová, Jana Javorčíková, Šárka Ježková, Jana Kozubíková Šandová, Ela Krejčová, Naděžda Kudrnáčová, Ivan Lacko, Dagmar Machová, Kateřina Nečasová, Katarína Nemčoková, Vojtěch Novák, Małgorzata Paprota, Jozef Pecina, Vladislav Smolka, Junichi Toyota, Roman Trušník, Ludmila Urbanová, Zuzana Urbanová, Ludmila Veselovská, Radek Vogel, Michaela Weiss, Bartosz Wójcik, Gabriela Zapletalová, 2012 All rights revert to the authors upon publication. Published by Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic ISBN 978-80-7454-191-9 Table of Contents Editors’ Note . 9 Roman Trušník, Katarína Nemčoková, Gregory Jason Bell Linguistics English Indirect Passives: Strong Evidence for a Sharply Bifurcated Lexicon . 13 Joseph Emonds The Status of the English Particle not and the Negative Adverb never . 31 Ludmila Veselovská On the Principled Connections between the Semantic Structure of Verbs of Locomotion in English and Their Syntactic Behaviour . 55 Naděžda Kudrnáčová Default Case in Coordinate Constructions . 65 Ela Krejčová The End-Weight and End-Focus Principles in Rhematic Subjects . 79 Vladislav Smolka On the Historical Development of English and German Modal Verbs . 87 Dagmar Machová Dialect Mixing as a Language Contact in the History of English. .95 Junichi Toyota Slovak Tongue, Canadian Mind: Discourse Analysis of Canadian-English Interference among Slovak Immigrants in Canada . 111 Jana Javorčíková Language Change and Variation in Present-Day Malaysia . 121 Miroslav Černý Information and Interpretation in Media Discourse . 129 Ludmila Urbanová Direct Forms of Presentation: Embedded Reported Discourse in British Newspaper Reports . 135 Zuzana Urbanová Intertextuality as a Discourse Strategy: Mass Culture in Printed Ads . 151 Katarína Nemčoková Political Discourse and its Features in Barack Obama’s 2011 Speech to the British Parliament . 159 Lenka Drábková Pragmatic Functions of Speaker-Oriented Boosters in Political Interviews . 169 Jana Kozubíková Šandová Keeping Your Own, Gaining Common Ground: Strict Father and Nurturant Parent Models in David Cameron’s Speeches on Social Services . 183 Małgorzata Paprota The Notion of Native Speaker and Its Relevance for English as an International Language ...................................................................191 Kateřina Nečasová Relationships and Identities in Conference Presentations: Czech Speakers Presenting in English . 197 Gabriela Zapletalová Academic Papers in English and the Distribution of Sentence Adverbials by Native vs. Non-native Writers. 209 Radek Vogel Syntactic Deviations and Mistakes in Learners’ Spoken English Language . 223 Šárka Ježková Literature and Cultural Studies James Fenimore Cooper and the Beginnings of Espionage Fiction . 235 Jozef Pecina The Power of Theory: David Mamet’s Oleanna ..................................241 Ivan Lacko Autumn and Garden in the Poetry of Stanley Kunitz . 249 Jiří Flajšar Young Adult Literature as a Tool for Survival: Alex Sanchez’s Rainbow Boys Series . 255 Roman Trušník Narrating as a Child, Reading as an Adult: Ways of Employing a Child Narrator in the American Novel . 263 Šárka Bubíková From Superman to Maus: Jews in American Comics . 273 Michaela Weiss The British Influence on the Development of Florida, 1763–1783 . .283 Gregory Jason Bell A Joy in Fear: The Passion for Fear in Joanna Baillie’s Plays Orra and The Dream ..........................................................289 Eva Čoupková Iain Banks’s Use of the Gothic . 295 Vojtěch Novák Diaspora in the Poetry of Fleur Adcock . 303 Pavlína Flajšarová Canadian Grim: Life Cycle in Alistair MacLeod’s “As Birds Bring Forth the Sun” . 309 Vladimíra Fonfárová “I Am a Natural Dancer”: The Leitmotif of Dance in Jean Binta Breeze’s Afro-Jamaican Poetry . 317 Bartosz Wójcik Editors’ Note Roman Trušník, Katarína Nemčoková, Gregory Jason Bell The present volume, the third in the Zlín Proceedings in Humanities book series, contains selected papers from “Theories and Practices: The Third International Conference on Anglophone Studies,” held on September 7–8, 2011, and hosted by the Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic. Since our proud but comparatively humble beginnings in 2009 when we attempted to open a dialogue primarily among Czech and Slovak scholars, our conference has grown in size, diversity and respectability and has gained firm footing on the Central European scene as a conference that documents the most current research trends in the region. In order to accommodate scholarly interest in all aspects of the English-speaking world, this year we chose to widen the conference’s focus from the traditional “English and American Studies” to “Anglophone Studies.” While the conference itself hosted scholars from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Lithuania, the United States and Sweden, not all participants’ papers found their way into the proceedings. The success of the conference has afforded us, as editors, the enviable yet difficult task of picking and choosing the best and also best fitting contributions, all the while keeping in mind the goal of producing a representative record of current research primarily from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The welcomed presence of papers from other countries infuses the proceedings with global perspectives. There can be no better reward for editors of a series of proceedings than to havetheir efforts bear fruit. Thus, as editors, we have been pleased to see articles from our previous two volumes cited in other scholarly publications. This volume, like the previous ones, is published as a print volume and distributed primarily to libraries, both in the Czech Republic and abroad, while being simultaneously released in PDF format on the Internet (http://conference.uaa.utb.cz/tp2011) for easy indexing, searching, and sharing among scholars worldwide. The form and format of the proceedings remain faithful to what worked bestin the previous two volumes. The volume is divided into two sections: linguistics inthe broadest use of the term, and literature and cultural studies. While some articles are highly theoretical, others are more practical, often with a pedagogical overlap. We also adhered to the same format as in previous volumes, using both systems defined in the current edition of The Chicago Manual of Style: papers on linguistics use the author- date system, while papers on literature and cultural studies make use of footnotes. In electronic sources, we give access dates only in cases when we were unable to verify the sources in August 2012. While the ink on this volume is still drying, participants from around the globe will once again be gathering in Zlín to continue the ongoing discussion begun three years ago. However, before we increase our scholarly footprint yet again, we wish to take this 10 Theories and Practices opportunity to thank all of the participants, organizers and many others whose efforts made our third annual conference not only a reality but a great success. Our thanks are also extended to the rector of Tomas Bata University in Zlín and to the Zlín Region for their continued financial support and encouragement. Linguistics English Indirect Passives: Strong Evidence for a Sharply Bifurcated Lexicon Joseph Emonds Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Faculty of Humanities, Department of English and American Studies, Mostní 5139, 760 01 Zlín, Czech Republic. Email: [email protected] Abstract: Previous studies of the English passive have not recognized a distinct subtype where the auxiliary is not simply be or get, but a transitive grammatical verb, in particular have, get, want, need, see or hear. These “indirect passives,”as I name them, are shown here to be verbal and not adjectival, and to not consist of embedded passive clauses containing traditionally analyzed simple passives, such as reduced relatives or other types of “small clauses.” Rather, indirect passives are structurally parallel to the traditional (“direct”) passives, except that their auxiliaries are transitive rather than intransitive verbs that