Patterns and variation in English language discourse : : 9th Brno Conference on Linguistics Studies in English / / Irena Hůlková [and nine others].

• VerfasserIn: Hůlková, Irena,
• Place / Publishing House: Brno : : Masaryk University Press,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (166 pages)

This book contains abstracts of papers presented at the Ninth Brno Conference on Linguistics Studies in English entitled "Patterns and Variation in English Language Discourse". The conference is organised by the Department of English Language and Literature of the Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, and is held on 16-17 September 2021. The Ninth Brno Conference focuses on patterns and variation in English language discourse in an attempt to extend our understanding of language as a social, contextually bound phenomenon. The aim is to explore how patterning and variation in texts and discourses is shaped by the communicative needs, the topic at hand, the medium employed and the intended audience.

Table of Contents

The multifaceted and whimsical nature of discourse Jarmila Tárnyiková -- Repetition as an effective rhetorical device in remarks at media briefings on COVID-19 Zhuzhuna Gumbaridze -- Tendencies of threat techniques utilization in the COVID-19 related discourse in Georgian and English online news reports Zeinab Gvarishvili, Nana Mazmishvili -- Adverse 'native speaker' effects on Anglophones in the multilingual workplace Veronika Lovrits -- Hedging like a professional: A corpus-driven approach to interactional metadiscourse in English learner academic writing Markéta Malá -- A comparison of climate change lexical creativity among American, European and international Twitter users Vanessa Marcella -- Possibility modals in English tourism discourse: Variation across three web registers Aleksandra Radovanović -- Grammatical collocations in English exam texts written by Czech secondary-school students Věra Sládková -- Aspects of vocabulary knowledge in current lower-secondary EFL coursebooks and coursebooks published 20 years ago Michaela Trnová.