Brno Studies in English
Volume 35, No. 2, 2009
ISSN 0524-6881
Discourse As Function
Edited by
Jan CHOVANEC
CONTENTS
Discourse As Function: Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Jan CHOVANEC: Ludmila Urbanová: An Appreciation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Part One: Analysing Sentence Structure and Function
Jana CHAMONIKOLASOVÁ: Word Order and Linear Modification in English  . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Libuše Dušková: Noun Modification in Fiction and Academic Prose  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Aleš Klégr: “The Fifth Element”: A Remark on the FSP Factors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Part Two: Pragmatic Markers and Discourse Segments
Karin AIJMER: Please: A Politeness Formula Viewed in a Translation Perspective  . . . . . . . . . . 63
Angela DOWNING: Surely as a Marker of Dominance and Entitlement in the Crime Fiction
of P.D. James  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Renata Povolná: On Contrastive Relations in Academic Spoken Discourse  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Part Three: Discourses in the Public Sphere
Jan CHOVANEC: Simulation of Spoken Interaction in Written Online Media Texts  . . . . . . . . 109
Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova: Interpersonal Meanings in the Genre of Diplomatic
Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Milan Ferenčík: ‘Doing interrupting’ as a Discursive Tactic in Argumentation:
A Post-Pragmatic Politeness Theory Perspective  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Part Four: Discourses over the Course of Time
Hans Sauer: How the Anglo-Saxons Expressed Their Emotions with the Help
of Interjections  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Herbert Schendl: William Harvey’s Prelectiones Anatomie Universalis (1616):
Code-Switching in Early Modern English Lecture Notes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Jarmila Tárnyiková: English Borrowings in Czech: Health to our Mouths?  . . . . . . . . . . . . 199