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“A Ruler Came and Knelt Before Him”: Hendiadys As a Means Of SILESIAN UNIVERSITY IN OPAVA FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES SILESIAN STUDIES IN ENGLISH 2012 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES 13th – 14th September 2012 EDITED BY MARKÉTA JOHNOVÁ AND MICHAELA WEISS OPAVA 2013 Publisher Silesian University in Opava Faculty of Philosophy and Science Institute of Foreign Languages Publisher‟s Address Slezská univerzita v Opavě Masarykova tř. 37 746 01 Opava Conference organizers Mgr. Markéta Johnová, Ph.D. Mgr. Lucie Kučerová, Ph.D. Mgr. Marie Tokařová Reviewers Mgr. Zuzana Buráková, Ph.D. Prof. PhDr. Jarmila Tárnyiková, CSc. Editors Mgr. Markéta Johnová, Ph.D. PhDr. Michaela Weiss, Ph.D. Copyright © 2013 Silesian University in Opava Faculty of Philosophy and Science Institute of Foreign Languages ISBN 978-80-7248-887-2 CONTENTS Editors‟ Note ....................................................................................................... 6 Markéta Johnová and Michaela Weiss I. LINGUISTICS Some Notes on the Presentational Capacity of Hendiadys-like Verbal Configurations ................................................................................................... 9 Martin Adam Sleeping Languages in the English Speaking World ....................................... .23 Miroslav Černý Czech Grammars in English ............................................................................ 33 Libuše Dušková Gender as an Identity Variable in Computer-Mediated Communication......... 52 Markéta Johnová On Modal Auxiliaries in Italian in Comparison with English ......................... 64 Eva Klímová Names of Mushrooms in the Current Usage ................................................... 76 Pavel Kolář Interviewing Strategies in Oral History .......................................................... 89 Lucie Kučerová Problems of Idioms Presentation in Translation Idiomatic Dictionaries ...... 102 Pavol Kvetko The Pragmatics of Politeness in Academic Blogging ................................... 117 Gabriela Miššíková Stratagems of Calques (Translating from English to Czech) ......................... 128 Václav Řeřicha The Hard News Report: The Beginning, Middle and End ............................ 137 Zuzana Urbanová 3 II. LITERATURE Changes in the Portrayal of Vampires – From an Outcast to Prince Charming and a Citizen ................................................................................................. 156 Diana Adamová Nature the Monster or Did Atwood Get It All Wrong: Representation of Nature in Alistair MacLeod‟s Short Stories ............................................. 166 Vladimíra Fonfárová Innocents on the Island: A Rousseauistic Reading of Lord of the Flies ....... 177 Radek Glabazňa Representation of the Orthodox Jewish Community in A. Goodman‟s Kaaterskill Falls and R. Goldstein‟s Mazel .................................................. 191 Stanislav Kolář Portia Coughlan: Contemporary Antique Tragedy ...................................... 211 Ivona Mišterová John Neal and Antebellum Sensational Fiction ............................................ 226 Jozef Pecina Terry McMillan: Learning to Breathe ........................................................... 234 Veronika Portešová The Uses of Intertextuality in Gay Young Adult Literature ......................... 248 Roman Trušník Gender Construction in Virginia Woolf‟s Orlando ...................................... 258 Michaela Weiss III. METHODOLOGY Drama Techniques and Brain-Based Learning in ELT in the 21st Century – Traditions and Perspectives .......................................................................... 270 Andrea Billíková and Mária Kiššová 4 Prague Model United Nations – Simulation Project Integrating Global Issues into Upper-Secondary Curriculum: A Case Study ........................................ 285 Jana Němečková Contributors ................................................................................................... 300 5 EDITORS‟ NOTE Markéta Johnová and Michaela Weiss The volume Silesian Studies in English 2012 presents selected papers from the 3rd International Conference of English and American Studies Silesian Studies in English – SILSE 2012, which took place on 13th – 14th September 2012 at the Institute of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University in Opava, the Czech Republic. As was the case with the preceding SILSE conferences, which took place in 2006 and 2009, there was no prescribed theme of the contributions. Scholars were invited to present their latest research in the fields of Linguistics, Literature and Methodology without being limited to a specific topic. Since the conference attracted many scholars both from the Czech Republic and abroad, the resulting volume provides a representative sample of the current state of research, mainly in the Central Europe. Following the structure of the conference, the current volume has been divided into three main sections with 11 papers in the Linguistics section, 9 in the Literature section, and 2 in Methodology. The Chicago Manual of Style was chosen as the reference style for the proceedings; papers on linguistics and methodology use the author-date system, whilst the literary papers use footnotes. When it comes to electronic sources, the access dates are not provided, as all the links were checked by the editors to be fully functional at the time of publishing. While the last volume was published in print and on CD, following the latest trends and allowing for a better accessibility of the papers, the current proceedings are published in print, and they have also been made available in a PDF format on the Institute of Foreign Languages webpage. Similarly to previous years, the volume does not include all the papers that were presented at the conference. While some participants did not meet the deadlines for submitting their papers, others did not 6 reach the required quality standard and their contributions were not accepted for publishing. We would like to express our thanks to the Institute of Foreign Languages, which partially funded the publishing of this volume. Our thanks also go to the organizers for their hard work in preparation of the conference, as well as the participants, who created an excellent atmosphere and made the conference a memorable and successful event. 7 I. LINGUISTICS SOME NOTES ON THE PRESENTATIONAL CAPACITY OF HENDIADYS-LIKE VERBAL CONFIGURATIONS Martin Adam ABSTRACT: Exploring the Firbasian theory of functional sentence perspective (FSP), the present paper attempts to throw light on the Presentation sentences that contain hendiadys-like verbal pairs (A ruler came and knelt before him). The main question posed is whether such constructions can be considered verbal hendiadys, thus representing one communicative unit, or rather two separate verbs operating in two distinctive dynamic semantic scales. The principal aim of the analysis will be to discuss the potential capacity of such configurations to present a context-independent subject on the scene, i.e. to express appearance/existence with explicitness or sufficient implicitness. KEY WORDS: FSP, Firbas, presentation, scale, hendiadys, verb, existence appearance 1. PAPER OBJECTIVES The present corpus-based paper proposes to throw light on the structure and the function of the Presentation sentences (Pr-sentences) that contain pair verbal configurations in predication (cf. A ruler came and knelt before him). As a matter of fact, these sentences typically fall into one of the most frequent types of sentences implementing the Presentation Scale (Pr-Scale), i.e. those which feature a rhematic subject in preverbal position. The principal question discussed is whether such constructions are capable of presenting a context-independent phenomenon on the scene, i.e. to express appearance/existence with explicitness or with sufficient implicitness. On top of that, the paper will investigate the syntactic semantic nature of such verbal pairs, attempting to conclude whether they represent one communicative unit (and so one dynamic semantic scale) or rather two separate verbs operating in two distinctive dynamic semantic scales. Methodologically anchored in the theory of functional sentence perspective (FSP) and drawing on the findings presented especially by Firbas (1992), Svoboda (2005, 2006) and Dušková (1998, 2005), the paper deals with the register of fiction narrative and New Testament 9 narrative. For the purpose of analysis two fiction texts (novels) are used: C. S. Lewis‟ (1950) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (in the corpus abbreviated N) and D. Lodge‟s (1979) Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses (C). The biblical subcorpus contains the following New Testament books of narrative character (Kohlenberger 1997): The Gospel of Luke (L), The Gospel of Matthew (M), The Book of Acts (A), The Book of Revelation (R), and a part of The Gospel of John (J). As to the statistic data, the whole corpus under examination consists of 207,366 words; within the corpus, there are 11,395 basic distributional fields, which are technically counted as finite clauses; non-finite clauses are regarded as separate communicative units within the basic distributional fields. Out of all the basic distributional fields in the corpus, 488 instances of sentences that implement the Presentation Scale were identified, which represents 8.2%. Apparently, a low number of the basic distributional fields in the corpus follow the general
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