SBORNÍK PRACÍ FILOZOFICKÉ FAKULTY BRNĚNSKÉ UNIVERZITY STUDIA MINORA FACULTATIS PHILOSOPHICAL UNIVERSITATIS BRUNENSIS Sil, 2005 — BRNO STUDIES IN ENGLISH 31 CONTENTS Chamonikolasová, Jana: K jubileu Ludmily Urbanové ................................11 Newmark, Peter: Remembering Jan Firbas .........................................13 LINGUISTICS Dontcheva-Navrátilová, Olga: Text Typology of Resolutions...........................19 Kudrnáčová, Naděžda: Oscillatory Corporeal Verbs from a Semantico-Syntactic Perspective ... 35 Povolná, Renata: Some Notes on Interactive Discourse Items in Spoken English ...........49 Tkachuk, Tetyana: Idioms Inside Out: Money in English Idioms ........................63 Urbanová, Ludmila: Is Stylistics a Controversial Branch of Language Study?..............73 Wilamová, Sirma: On the Function of Hedging Devices in Negatively Polite Discourse......85 Newmark, Peter: The Translator as Writer..........................................95 LITERATURE Bloyd, Rebekah: Sounds and Silences in the Jamaican Household: Michelle Cliff's "Columba"........................................................103 Bosničová, Nina: Changing Perspectives on Religion in African American Women's Autobiographies....................................................Ill Drábek, Pavel: František Nevrla's Translation of Hamlet .............................119 Franková, Milada: Jane Rogers's Novel Explorations................................129 Kyzlinková, Lidia: Rendell/Vine: The Historical Universality of Degradation Between Nations and Genders ................................................139 Pospíšil, Tomáš: Spies, Bombers, Liberators and Lovers: Images of Americans in Czech Film .............................................................147 Pověda, Jaume Albero: Villains and the Representations of Evil in J. R. R. Tolkien's Fiction of Middle-Earth....................................................155 Přidalová, Jana: Symbolic Images of Mimesis, Tromp l'Oeil and a Veil in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale...................................................175 Vránová, Martina: Intertextuality in Love Among the Ruins...........................185