14th ESSE Conference Programme (You will receive a printed copy in your conference bag.) 1 Plenary Lectures Anne Fogarty Modernist Aftermaths?: Joyce Effects in Contemporary Irish Fiction Scala, Moravské náměstí 127/3 Wed 14:30–15:30 Marta Mateo The sound of English literature in musical translation Scala, Moravské náměstí 127/3 Thu 13:30–14:30 Alfred Thomas Shakespeare's Bohemia: Religious Toleration in an Age of Confessional Polarization Scala, Moravské náměstí 127/3 Fri 13:30–14:30 Josef Schmied Functional Linguistic Approaches to Non-Native Academic Writing: Global Comparisons of Abstracts, Theses and Articles Scala, Moravské náměstí 127/3 Sat 13:30–14:30 Parallel Lectures Stefania Nuccorini PL01 The Lexicographical Management of English. Usage, Authority and Stance (1961-Present Day) Room N51, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Fri 9:00–10:00 Elena Seoane PL02 A Register Approach to Morphosyntactic Variation in World Englishes Room N41, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Thu 9:00–10:00 Jan Chovanec PL03 The Multimodal Poetics of Football, Language and the Media Room 200, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Sun 9:00–10:00 Izabela Szymańska PL04 Norms and Strategies in Translating Children’s Literature. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in Polish Room N41, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Fri 9:00–10:00 Anthony Johnson PL05 Texts in Time and Time in Texts: Embodied Cultural Moments in Literature and Language Room N21, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Sat 9:00–10:00 Jean-Rémi Lapaire PL06 Choreographers of Speech: Social Space as Performance Space Room N51, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Thu 9:00–10:00 Maurizio Calbi PL07 Shakespeare and Contemporary Media Culture Scala, Moravské náměstí 127/3 Sat 9:00–10:00 Martin Procházka PL08 A Dialogue Between the East and the West? Uses and Abuses of Sharawadgi Room N21, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Fri 9:00–10:00 María José Coperías-Aguilar PL09 In Their Own Voice: Women’s Periodicals in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain Room 200, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Sat 9:00–10:00 Laura Mª Lojo-Rodríguez PL10 Women’s Words: Victoria Ocampo and the Reception of Virginia Woolf in Hispanic Countries Room N21, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Thu 9:00–10:00 Lilla Maria Crisafulli PL11 Frankenstein 1818/2018: Science and Gender in Mary Shelley’s Novel Room N51, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Sun 9:00–10:00 2 Tamás Bényei PL12 The Monument and the Voice: Commemoration and Spectrality in British Literature of the Great War Room N41, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Sun 9:00–10:00 Daniel Smith PL13 Out of Hand: John Donne and Manuscript Circulation Room N41, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Sat 9:00–10:00 Gert Buelens PL14 Speculative Selves: Money and Subjectivity in Transatlantic Fiction since 1870 Scala, Moravské náměstí 127/3 Fri 9:00–10:00 Ludmilla Kostova PL15 Risks of Mediation: On Guides and Interpreters in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century British and Anglo- Irish Travel Writing on the Ottoman Empire Scala, Moravské náměstí 127/3 Thu 9:00–10:00 Virginia Richter PL16 Sandcastles and Beach Chairs: Banal Geopolitics in Modernist Literature Room 200, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Thu 9:00–10:00 Anne Fogarty PL17 Art is every Inexplicable Thing: Affect, Materiality and Pain in Eimear McBride’s A Girl is A Half-Formed Thing (2013), Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones (2016), and Sara Baume’s A Line Made by Walking (2017) Room 200, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Fri 9:00–10:00 Dieter Fuchs PL18 Why Read Joyce in the 21st Century? Room N51, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Sat 9:00–10:00 Catherine Bernard PL19 Re-affecting Vision: the Body Politic of Contemporary English Art Room N21, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Sun 9:00–10:00 Round Tables RT1 Literary Journalism and R/Evolution Room 213, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Thu 10:30–12:30 Participants: John S. Bak David Abrahamson Julie Wheelwright Talal Victor Hawshar RT2 Unpacking Anti-Gender Campaigns in the Context of Rising Populism in Europe Room 213, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Fri 10:30–12:30 Participants: Erzsébet Barát Pilar Cuder-Domínguez Zuzanna Sanches Katharina Wiedlack RT3 Cross-Border Dynamics: Mediation and Hybridity across the British Isles, Italy and France Room 213, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Thu 17:30–19:30 Roundtable jointly chaired by: Antonella Braida Céline Sabiron Participants: 3 Alberto Gabriele – Cross-Border Dynamics: Mediation and Hybridity in the Nineteenth Century Culture Industry Paola Gaudio – The Translator’s Poetics in the Italian Translations of Jane Eyre Matthew Reynolds – Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a Global Novel across Languages RT4 Meeting of the Gender Studies Network Room 213, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Thu 15:00–17:00 Participants: Işil Baş Florence Binard Renate Haas María Socorro Suárez Lafuente Seminars S01 – Environmental issues and the Anthropocene: Problems and Opportunities Room 107, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Douglas Mark Ponton Małgorzata Sokół (1) Sat 15:00–17:00 Cinzia Bevitori, Jane Helen Johnson – Climate change and migration: Exploring the nexus from a corpus-assisted discourse analysis perspective Anna Franca Plastina – Changing discourses of climate change: Comparing mediated meanings of social-ecological resilience Hermine Penz – Communicating climate change: How to touch a cord with people and promote action Angela Zottola, Claudio de Majo – The Anthropocene: Genesis and popularization in the press (2) Sat 17:30–19:30 Małgorzata Sokół – Interdiscursive (co-)construction of lay people’s ecological voices on YouTube Daniela Francesca Virdis – Environmental issues in the Victorian Era: An ecolinguistic examination of metaphor use in J. Ruskin’s The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century (1884) Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska – Multimodality and rhetoric in environmental charity appeals Lucia Abbamonte, Flavia Cavaliere – The ‘sustainable’ languages of Greenpeace – a multimodal investigation 3) Sun 10:30–12:30 Douglas Mark Ponton – Closeness and ecology in post-industrial narratives Reinhard Heuberger – Human-centered language patterns and possible alternatives Cecile Bianchi – Storytelling in environmental discourse: Identifying patterns leading towards the specialisation of language S02 – Seminar cancelled S03 – Specialised Discourse: Wherefrom and Whereto? Room N51, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová, Maria Freddi (1) Fri 10:30–12:30 Matthias Hofmann – Protest American English Influence or protest against it? Changing Prepositions in Nigerian Twitter English Magdalena Szczyrbak – Verbal patterns in trial discourse: The case of I think Radek Vogel – Credibility-boosting devices in corporate annual reports Renata Povolná – Cross-cultural variation in the expression of directives as important persuasive strategies in the genre of technical manuals Martin Adam – Pathos in Sermons: Employing Affect to Enhance Persuasion (2) Fri 17:30–19:30 Maria Freddi – The changing rhetoric of science: knowledge dissemination through science blogs Jane Helen Johnson – “And this is a really fundamental point”. Marking importance in office hours interactions in an EMI environment: a corpus-assisted study Krystyna Warchał – Tracing rhetorical change: Polish journal article introductions revisited Tereza Guziurová – Discourse reflexivity in written academic ELF 4 Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová – Academic persuasion: Intercultural variation in stance and engagement in linguistics research articles S04 – The Language of Cyberbullying: Verbal aggression in Online Communication Room 409, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Isabel Ermida Minna Palander-Collin (1) Fri 17:30–19:30 Elsa Freitas – (De)constructing the Kardashians: an analysis of aggressive forms of humour found in online comments on celebrity-related news Liisi Laineste – Humour and aggression in social media Ivan Stamenković – The Functions of Expletives in Facebook CMC Simona Ignat – Definition and taxonomy of flaming on Social Media platforms (2) Sat 17:30–19:30 Renata Bočková – The Use of Punctuation, Emoji and Emoticons in YouTube Abusive Comments on LGBT Videos Fabio Carrella – Like, Share, Hate: Interpreting Users’ Reactions to Populist Aggressive Discourse Rita Faria – “People like yourself are frightening” – online address in English and in Portuguese S05 – Language and Crime Room 410, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: John Douthwaite Ulrike Tabbert Sat 10:30–12:30 Ulrike Tabbert – Using Stylistics in forensic authorship identification/attribution Jiřina Popelíková, Veronika Volná – Legal Doublets in the Old Bailey Corpus Azianura Hani Shaari – Online Romance Scam in Malaysia: A Content Analysis of Actual Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims Jitka Vlčková – Concept of Crime and Politeness in Cross-cultural Communication in Australian Courtrooms John Douthwaite – A Cae in Point: Ideology in Midsommer Murders S06 – Exploring Rhetorical Aspects and Strategies in Specialised Discourse Room S117, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Catherine Resche Caroline Peynaud Alessandra Molino (1) Thu 15:00–17:00 Jana Kozubíková Šandová – Rhetorical Strategies in English and Czech Academic Texts. A Contrastive Study. Olga I. Oparina – “Chatty Style”. Communication Strategy in Written Academic Discourse Geneviève Bordet – Authorial credibility and encapsulating “this”: forging an academic voice. (2) Thu 17:30–19:30 Mathilde Gaillard – “Tools for action”: American think tanks’ policy briefs Caroline Peynaud – Persuading to act against climate change: the metaphors of climate as rhetorical