University of Novi Sad Faculty of Philosophy Department of English

THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGLISH STUDIES ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND ANGLOPHONE LITERATURES TODAY (ELALT)
Novi Sad, 19 March 2011

Conference Programme

Organizing Committee:
Vladislava Gordi Petkovi (chair) Ivana uri Paunovi (coordinator) Sabina Halupka Reetar (coordinator) Biljana Radi Bojani (secretary) Nataa Karanfilovi (treasurer) Borislava Erakovi Aleksandar Kavgi Arijana Luburi Cvijanovi Bojana Vujin

Programme Committee:
Predrag Novakov Zoran Paunovi Tvrtko Pri Zorica ergovi Joksimovi Aleksandra Izgarjan Maja Markovi Gordana Petrii

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The Conference organizers gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Ministry of Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia.

Table of Contents:
General Timetable................................ 5

Parallel Sessions Timetable.................. 7

Abstracts............................................ 13

List of Participants ............................. 50

Manuscript Submission...................... 52

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ELALT Conference, Novi Sad, 19 March 2011: General Timetable

8.30 Nastavniki klub (Teachers Club), ground floor

Registration

9.30 10.00 Kino-sala (Projection Room), ground floor

Opening Ceremony, with welcoming addresses by

Miroslav Veskovi, Rector of the University of Novi Sad, Ivana ivanevi Sekeru, Vice-Dean, on behalf of the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, and Vladislava Gordi Petkovi, Head of the Department of English

10.00 12.00 Rooms 25/1, 26/1, 48/1, 49/1, 72/2, 89/2

Morning Parallel Sessions

12.00 12.30 Sala za sednice (Conference Room), ground floor

Refreshment Break

12.30 13.00 Kino-sala (Projection Room), ground floor

Plenary Talk 1: Ranko Bugarski, Faculty of Philology, Belgrade From verbal play to linguistics: a personal memoir
Chair: Tvrtko Pri

13.00 13.30 Kino-sala (Projection Room), ground floor

Plenary Talk 2: Svetozar Koljevi, Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Novi Sad The international theme in Serbian literature
Chair: Zoran Paunovi

ELALT Conference, Novi Sad, 19 March 2011: General Timetable

13.30 14.30 Sala za sednice (Conference Room), ground floor

Lunch

14.30 16.30 Rooms 25/1, 26/1, 48/1, 49/1, 72/2, 89/2

Afternoon Parallel Sessions

16.30 17.00 Sala za sednice (Conference Room), ground floor

Refreshment Break

17.00 19.00 Rooms 25/1, 26/1, 48/1, 49/1, 65/2, 72/2, 89/2

Evening Parallel Sessions

19.00 19.30 Kino-sala (Projection Room), ground floor

Closing Ceremony

ELALT Conference, Novi Sad, 19 March 2011: Parallel Sessions Timetable

M O R N I N G
SESSION 2: LANGUAGE ROOM 26/1 CHAIR: Biljana ori Francuski
Nataa Ili The didactic implications of translation-oriented text analysis Borislava Erakovi The role of extratextual factors in the acquisition of translation competence Tanja Cvetkovi Translating Robert Kroetschs The Studhorse Man Maja Markovi Acquiring second language prosody: fundamental frequency Tatjana Paunovi

P A R A L L E L
SESSION 3: LANGUAGE ROOM 48/1 CHAIR: Maja Markovi

S E S S I O N S

SESSION 1: LANGUAGE ROOM 25/1 CHAIR: Olga Pani Kavgi

Aleksandar Kavgi / Olga Pani Kavgi

10.00-10.20

Computer-related terminology in Serbian: a diachronic analysis of borrowing trends, translation and adaptation strategies Nataa Milivojevi

10.20-10.40

Constructing motion with sound: something about the formal properties of English and Serbian sound emission verbs Mihaela Lazovi

What did they say? What did they mean? What did you think? Intonation perception in EFL Jovana Dimitrijevi Savi / Danica Jerotijevi

10.40-11.00

The structure and semantics of accomplishments in English and Romanian

Vesna Gajiin

Serbian learners production of English interdental fricatives: the effects of speech style on production accuracy Mdlina Cerban Identifying boundaries between clause complexes and ranking clauses Sabina Halupka Reetar

11.00-11.20

Participles in English and Serbian daily newspapers

Violeta Stojii

Ingrida Tatolyt From a drop of water Models of reasoning in speeches given by Lithuanian and British EU parliamentarians, and the possible impact of the model on interpreting Biljana ori Francuski

11.20-11.40

Contrastive view of Serbian and English collocations

Savka Blagojevi

Whats in a name? Adopting ancient Indian practices in 21st century cross-cultural translation studies Predrag Novakov Linguistic and extralinguistic component in translation: English-Serbian examples

Clefts, pseudo-clefts and reverse pseudo-clefts as major constructions for expressing information structure in English Biljana Mii Ili Syntax-pragmatics interface and the treatment of non-canonical word order constructions

11.40-12.00

Discourse markers in academic research articles: a contrastive approach

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M O R N I N G
SESSION 5: LITERATURE ROOM 72/2 CHAIR: Zorica ergovi Joksimovi
Selma Raljevi The aesthetics of survivance in Gerald Vizenors Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57 Maja Bjelica

P A R A L L E L
SESSION 6: LANGUAGE ROOM 89/2 CHAIR: Sanja Krimer Gaborovi

S E S S I O N S

( c o n t . )

SESSION 4: LITERATURE ROOM 49/1 CHAIR: Andrew Goodspeed

Sergej Macura

10.00-10.20

Some conceptions of inception: what Christopher Nolan owes to Jorge Luis Borges

Danijela Petkovi

Phonological and morphological adaptation of English words in the TV show ivot u trendu Vera Janjatovi

10.20-10.40

India in childrens films: little princesses and secret gardens

Sonja Jankov

Ivana Mari Postcolonial readings of identity in Arundhati Roys The God of Small Things and Kiran Desais The Inheritance of Loss: ambivalence and mimicry Nina Mudeka A postcolonial dialogue with the other: Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness and David Dabydeens The Intended Arijana Luburi Cvijanovi

The use of anglicisms in womens fashion magazines in Serbian: morphological analysis Ivana Vlajkovi How English influences Serbian at the grammatical level in Facebook communication Helena Borrell Carreras When normalisation isnt normal: translating colloquial registers in Catalan Sanja Krimer Gaborovi Semantics and pragmatics of English and Serbian colour naming lexemes

10.40-11.00

Peter Greenaways cenotaph for Joycean modernity: a portrait of the architect at fifty four Ljiljana Bogoeva Sedlar

11.00-11.20

Godards Shakespeare

Andrew Goodspeed

Innocence and experience: echoes of William Blake and gota Kristf in Chris Abanis Song for Night Zorica ergovi Joksimovi The ontology of space: utopia, dystopia and heterotopia in Marge Piercys Women on the Edge of Time Maxim Shadurski Character and identity in Robert Hugh Bensons utopia

11.20-11.40

how come youre so afraid of things that dont make any sense to you? The validity of illogic in Bob Dylans Tarantula Bojana Vujin

11.40-12.00

The walrus was Alice: the influence of Lewis Carrolls Alice books on John Lennons lyrics

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A F T E R N O O N
SESSION 8: LANGUAGE ROOM 26/1 CHAIR: Tatjana Gluac
Jasmina orevi Web 2.0 tools in the ELT classroom: Hot Potatoes and Dvolver Tatjana Gluac Teaming up to overcome the 21st-century classroom challenges Diana Prodanovi Stanki Humour as an indispensable part of ELT Melisa Okii

P A R A L L E L
SESSION 9: LANGUAGE ROOM 48/1 CHAIR: Mira Mili

S E S S I O N S

SESSION 7: LANGUAGE ROOM 25/1 CHAIR: Dragana Vukovi Vojnovi

Dragana Vukovi Vojnovi / Marija Niin

14.30-14.50

Would you care for a drink? polite questions and requests in the cross-cultural context of tourism industry Milica Savi

Origin of non-head constituent in English adjectival compounds with deverbative head word Gordana Lali Krstin Blending on the edge: borderline cases between blending and other word-formation processes Tvrtko Pri Explicit and non-explicit meaning in morphologically complex words in English Ana Halas The treatment of polysemous lexemes in English-Serbian dictionaries Tamara Jevri The study of the problem of absolute synonyms in relation to their collocational behaviour

14.50-15.10

Will you...? Would you...? Could you...? Advanced EFL students metapragmatic awareness Nina Lazarevi

15.10-15.30

Making sense of cultural differences culture assimilators for the Serbian EFL context Biljana Radi Bojani

Ljiljana Markovi

15.30-15.50

Do you play Barnga? having intercultural encounters in the EFL classroom in Serbia Tijana Vasiljevi Stoki

Animal metaphors in EFL vocabulary acquisition Gordana Petrii Left / right brain dominance and learning styles: implications for EFL instruction Sanja Vuleti Cognitive abilities of pre-school children and readiness for foreign language acquisition

15.50-16.10

The effects of bilingual dictionary use and teacher feedback in translation tasks on EFL vocabulary development Davor Menzildi

Mira Mili Hindsight analysis of a bilingual dictionary of standardised sports terms

16.10-16.30

An error analysis of Serbian English majors written productions

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A F T E R N O O N
SESSION 11: LITERATURE ROOM 72/2 CHAIR: Rajko Petkovi
Aleksandar B. Nedeljkovi Moral equations of the killing of Harry Lime in The Third Man Nataa Pani The romantic mode in A. S. Byatts Possession and David Lodges Small World Viktorija Krombholc (In)visibility and power in Sarah Waterss Affinity Rajko Petkovi / Petra Perkov Time and narrative in Ian McEwan and Joe Wrights Atonement Nataa Tuev The Third Body and the politics of sex: Ian McEwans The Comfort of Strangers Tiana Toi / Ivana Palibrk Girl talk: English in modern means of communication Allan James

P A R A L L E L
SESSION 12: LANGUAGE ROOM 89/2 CHAIR: Tatjana urovi

S E S S I O N S

( c o n t . )

SESSION 10: LITERATURE ROOM 49/1 CHAIR: Sanja otari

Jasna Poljak Rehlicki / Ljubica Matek

14.30-14.50

Desire in Hemingways The Sun Also Rises and Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby

Sanja otari

14.50-15.10

Postmodernist formlessness as uncommitted commitment in Barthelmes and Reeds fiction

English as a partial language: a sociolinguistics of its international use Tatjana urovi Englishisation of the European Union viewed through metaphorical lenses Sndor Czegldi The 111th Congress and federal-level language policy in the United States

Aleksandra Mari

15.10-15.30

My phony role as husband and father: performing masculinities in Don DeLillos Underworld Zlatko Buka

15.30-15.50

Reality and space in DeLillos Americana and Cosmopolis

Vesna Brankovi

15.50-16.10

Conservatism and opportunism in the American country music texts

16.10-16.30

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E V E N I N G
SESSION 14: LANGUAGE ROOM 26/1 CHAIR: Nadeda Silaki
Tijana Vesi Pavlovi Cleanliness is next to godliness clean and dirty metaphors in English and Serbian Nadeda Silaki Merima Osmankadi

P A R A L L E L
SESSION 15: LANGUAGE ROOM 48/1 CHAIR: Sneana Bilbija

S E S S I O N S

SESSION 13: LANGUAGE ROOM 25/1 CHAIR: Vesna Pilipovi

Vesna Lazovi

17.00-17.20

Reflective journal as self-assessment tool in ELT

Negation as a means of contrasting or challenging elements of intertextual context Sneana Bilbija The role of vagueness in the EU discourse

Isidora Wattles

17.20-17.40

Effective course related assessment techniques

Bojana obot

Climbing the corporate ladder or being stuck on the mummy track CAREER metaphors in English Sonja Filipovi Kovaevi Names of advertised products as mini advertisements a cognitive-linguistic view Ana Ivandeki Similes in English: semantic and pragmatic aspects Ana arevi Polysemy of the adjective good in contemporary linguistic models Mirjana Radosavljevi Facing the challenge of multimeaningfulness in business English

Gordana Dimkovi Telebakovi Current issues in adverb categorization

17.40-18.00

Individual approach in English language teaching

Jagoda Topalov

Nataa Bikicki / Jelena Jerkovi The perception of telicity in transparent phrasal verbs Duan Stamenkovi Verbs and prototype theory: state of the art and possibilities Tomislav Bukatarevi Passive and aktionsart in English

18.00-18.20

Effects of strategic reading instruction on EFL students reading performance

Marta Dimitrijevi

18.20-18.40

Think-aloud protocols, non-native speakers and the use of the definite article

Vesna Pilipovi

18.40-19.00

The acquisition of teaching techniques

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E V E N I N G
SESSION 17: LITERATURE ROOM 65/2 CHAIR: Vesna Lopii
Aida Diho Poetic nature of the feminine sentence Vesna Lopii / Milena Kosti Ghosts and ghastly creatures of the Down-Underworld the Australian ghost story Jos Carlos Tenreiro Prego Nataa Karanfilovi

P A R A L L E L
SESSION 18: LITERATURE ROOM 72/2 CHAIR: Nataa Karanfilovi

S E S S I O N S

( c o n t . )
SESSION 19: LITERATURE ROOM 89/2 CHAIR: Vladislava Gordi Petkovi
Vladislava Gordi Petkovi

SESSION 16: LITERATURE ROOM 49/1 CHAIR: va Bs

Irina-Ana Drobot

17.00-17.20

Witty and lyrical language in Virginia Woolfs Orlando and Graham Swifts The Light of Day Smiljka Kesi / Valentina Mikluc

17.20-17.40

Voicing metamorphoses: I, too, overflow

Sonja Veselinovi
Multiculturalism and womens voices in contemporary New York/San Francisco literary circle Aurora Levins Morales (and Rosario Morales): getting home alive

Race and gender in Emily Pauline Johnsons A Red Girls Reasoning Ivana Banevi Pejovi

The impact of English gothic fiction on nineteenth-century Spanish literature Danijela Proi Santovac

References and resonances: Tennessee Williams and William Shakespeare Ljubica Vasi The concept of family according to the transformation of ideological and mythic form in Sam Shepards play True West Ivana Todorovi The other in Shakespeare and today Jelena Jovievi Use of violence on stage in the portrayal of modern culture in Sarah Kanes Blasted

17.40-18.00

Two anthologies of contemporary English poetry in the Serbian language va Bs Aleksandra Izgarjan

Critical approaches to fairy tales from the eighteenth century to the present Claire McGrail Johnston The modern Irish novel a wild orchestration of the body? Biljana Vlakovi Shavian critique of the John Bull and Cathleen Ni Houlihan affair

18.00-18.20

The Verbal Icon revisited

Ivana Trajanoska

Names and naming in Toni Morrisons novels Beloved and Song of Solomon Danica Miloevi Telling a story of survival

18.20-18.40

Pointed roofs, a text-image

Marija Todorova

18.40-19.00

(Un)translatability of mythology in literature

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Plenary Talks: Ranko Bugarski Belgrade, Serbia

From verbal play to linguistics: a personal memoir

This talk emphasises the role that experimentation with sounds and words, including verbal humour, has played in arousing interest in the nature and properties of language, as a precondition for the emergence of linguistic science. Against this general background the authors development as a linguist is sketched out and illustrated from his own experience with word play in various domains (translation, limericks, puns, blends). The presentation is sprinkled with linguistically relevant anecdotes and jokes about well-known linguists. The main point of the whole exercise is substantiating the claim that the humorous potentials of both language and linguistics should be exploited pedagogically, and showing how linguistics, in addition to teaching us a lot about language, ourselves and the world, can also be great fun.

Svetozar Koljevi Novi Sad, Serbia

The international theme in Serbian literature

Recent historical turmoil civil wars, peace-keeping missions (combined with bombing), ethnic cleansing and migrations provided new ground for the treatment of the so-called international theme in Serbian literature. Some writers like David Albahari and Vladimir Tasi left for Canada and their new migr experience is reflected in their fiction. In Albaharis novel A Bait (1996) the heros nostalgia for ex-Yugoslavia is placed in a Canadian setting. In his novel Globetrotter (2001) Albahari describes the long discussions of a Canadian painter, a Serbian writer of Jewish origin and a grandson of a Croatian Nazi (ustaa) in a conventional Canadian art center. Vladimir Tasi takes up the challenge of misunderstandings of a recent Serbian migr in the Canadian social environment in his novel A Farewell Gift (2001). Milovan Danojli had left for France before the Balkan civil wars and in his novel My Adventure (2002) he describes the life of a Serbian migr in that country. His hero has to face the question of how one could communicate with other people, or even with oneself, if one is exposed to conflicting news of the native and the foreign war propaganda. Some other writers in Serbian turned to the historical challenges of the earlier or more recent times in which the international theme emerged in the clashes of different cultures. Elizier Papo writes about the life of Sephardic Jews in Bosnia (The Sarajevo Tombstone, 2001) after they were expelled from Spain in the fifteenth century. Ranko Risojevi writes about the life of a man who performed the duty of a hangman both in the Turkish and the Austrian times (The Bosnian Hangman, 2004). Maksimilijan Erenrajh-Ostoji describes life in Belgrade during the German occupation (Secret Personal Dossier, 1999). Ivan Ivanji deals with the massive expulsion of Germans from Vojvodina after the Second World War (The Governess, 2002). The background of the cruel historical upheavals of the nineties ironically contrasting with the contemporary multicultural ideals is characteristic of the treatment of the international theme in recent Serbian literature; the responses in fiction to this challenge are the main topic of this paper.

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Session Presentations:
Ivana Banevi Pejovi Kragujevac, Serbia ibancevic@[Link]

Multiculturalism and womens voices in contemporary New York/San Francisco literary circle Aurora Levins Morales (and Rosario Morales): getting home alive
The aim of the presentation will be to examine the interrelation between the appearance of multiculturalism as a means of resistance to ongoing neocolonization and globalizing processes, both of mind and territory. Since the cultural background of Aurora Levins Morales is complex, her being Puerto Rican, Jewish and American, and a woman, the presentation will necessarily deal with cultural studies as well as with postcolonial theories with a touch of genre studies. By using Edward Saids method of contrapuntal reading/analysis presented in his book Culture and Imperialism, the paper will prove that literature can be a means of resistance to the stealing of ones history and tradition: his treatment of novel can be applied to the treatment of poetry as well.

Nataa Bikicki / Jelena Jerkovi Novi Sad, Serbia; Novi Sad, Serbia tadon@[Link]; jermit@[Link]

The perception of telicity in transparent phrasal verbs

This paper presents the results of the first phase of an intended longitudinal study designed to test how Serbian students perceive the meaning of telicity in transparent phrasal verbs. According to the previous research, the students are anticipated to have considerable difficulties in determining when to use particles which have only telic function. The research incorporates quantitative (including 200 students) and qualitative study (including 10 students). The participants are the first year students of Novi Sad Business School and The Faculty of Technology in Novi Sad. The quantitative study consists of translation, multiple choice test and gap filling, while the qualitative research comprises interviews and think-aloud protocol techniques.

Sneana Bilbija Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina [Link]@[Link]

The role of vagueness in the EU discourse

The EUs public discourse on its further expansion tends to feature narratives of progress. To this end, it typically relies on adjectival forms like new, better, stronger, greater without necessarily providing a clear referent to whatever stands in for the old, worse, less strong or great. By drawing on the theoretical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis, this paper will address the strategies through which the EU bodies demonstrate to the Other (i.e. non-member states) their control over the ultimate interpretation of intentional exploitation of adjectival indeterminacy. In other words, this paper will try to prove that the power to generate and interpret such vague adjectival meanings rests with those who can actively create EU discourse simply because they hold all the political and economic power.

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Maja Bjelica Novi Sad, Serbia bjelicamaja@[Link]

Phonological and morphological adaptation of English words in the TV show ivot u trendu
The paper aims to explain and exemplify the principles of formal (phonological and morphological) adaptation of English words which enter Serbian through television shows. The corpus draws on the abundance of English words used frequently by a host of a popular television show, who constantly tries to sound trendy and more Western-like. Very often, the use of English words in this context is unjustified, either because Serbian already has words for notions at issue or it can easily form equivalents from its own language inventory. It has been noticed that, under such constant influence of formal features of English words, Serbian has started importing not only phonological segments and their combinations from English, but also certain morphological markers typical of English. As a result, Serbian has been forming new words which do not originate from English but only look like they do, and their categorization is offered in the paper.

Savka Blagojevi Ni, Serbia savkab@[Link]

Discourse markers in academic research articles: a contrastive approach

Discourse markers play a significant role in academic research articles: by building up text cohesion they guide readers through the text and help them understand the writers perspective, intentions and stance. However, this importance is not sufficiently recognized by all academic writers, mostly due to the writing habits they acquire within their own writing culture. This was a starting assumption in conducting a small-scale research (30 research articles in sociology, psychology and philosophy) aimed to depict the possible differences in the use of discourse markers in academic research articles written by English and Serbian writers. The contrastive study comprises the analysis of the types of discourse markers (formal and syntactic categories) and the frequency of their appearance in the two discourses. The obtained results lead to the conclusion in line with the Hinds new typology (Hinds 1987) on reader-oriented versus writer-oriented languages.

Ljiljana Bogoeva Sedlar Belgrade, Serbia bogoeval@[Link]

Godards Shakespeare
Jean Luc Godard used Shakespeare as an inspiration not only in his film King Lear (1987) but also in his more recent loge de lamour / In Praise of Love (2001), where a reference to Henry V effectively frames the plot and generates a powerful insight into the processes that shape European history. This paper will demonstrate how Godards use of Shakespeare is related to his previous engagement with another literary text Alberto Moravias novel Contempt. Out of the insights gained while working on the screenplay for Le Mpris (1963) Godard evolved a unique cinematic strategy for understanding history. This paper will trace this unfolding and demonstrate how his reading of the Greek epics, Iliad and Odyssey, dealt with in the film version of Contempt, is connected with his understanding of the world of war, vice, and entertainment, generated by the West today. The paper will also show how working with Godard affected the artistic achievements and the historical sense of Peter Sellars, famous American theatre director and UCLA professor, who played the role of Shakespeare Jr. V in Godards King Lear.

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Helena Borrell Carreras Exeter, United Kingdom hb265@[Link]

When normalisation isnt normal: translating colloquial registers in Catalan

Both Catalan and Spanish languages are in permanent contact, and Catalan has been constantly fighting the perception of it as a minority language. Catalan oral language has evolved with a significant presence of Castilian. In this paper I aim to analyse how the network of relations branching out from translation within the Catalan literary system determines the task of the translator. Functional theories and the systemic approach will apply to this analysis, since the power of institutions conditions the translation. I will also pose the question of creating the bases for a model for written colloquial Catalan in translation which will be acceptable and yet will also reflect the contemporary oral language. Examples used will be drawn from translations of H. S. Thompsons novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, in which the presence of colloquial register and the richness of taboo language are the main difficulties.

Vesna Brankovi Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina vesna2012@[Link]

Conservatism and opportunism in the American country music texts

The American country music texts represent the stratification of the American society, especially the working class. They can influence the forming of some language attitudes of that class. The aim of this paper is to show the most common topics of the lyrics which show what problems, attitudes and beliefs of its followers are illustrated in the most popular texts, then to demonstrate how those texts picture the American working class. Using qualitative-quantitative method and about fifty most popular lyrics, we will, first, show the topics in the texts which the followers are willing to listen to, such as: family life, poverty, hard work, country-town lyrics. Then we will illustrate the conservative and opportunistic working class society which those texts picture.

Zlatko Buka Zadar, Croatia [Link]@[Link]

Reality and space in DeLillos Americana and Cosmopolis

The aim of this analysis is to provide an insight into Don DeLillos work and the representation of American life influenced by the media. The presentation will mostly focus on the role of media in constructing the reality of the characters and correlating these realities with significant theoretical works within the Cultural Studies tradition. By using this theoretical framework the analysis will focus mainly on what is called the centrality of media images. As the analysis will show, DeLillos novels (Americana and Cosmopolis) are closely and most evidently tied to the theories presented in Baudrilliards work and the work of Edward Soja. By attempting to consider reality and simulation, together with the function of space and place in the process of constructing a cultural imaginary of individuals and society, this paper will provide an outline of DeLillos representation of still contemporary American anxieties, society and history.

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Tomislav Bukatarevi Novi Sad, Serbia tbukatarevic@[Link]

Passive and aktionsart in English

The scope of this paper is the analysis of the English passive with relation to aktionsart, or the type of verb situation. The analysis is based on a corpus excerpted from the novel The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (2003), which consists of 58 units containing one or more passive constructions. With primarily semantic approach, the aim was to determine if passivization can result in a change of situation types and which situation types are involved in the process. Additionally, by establishing the link between the traditional theory on passive and its use in a recent piece of literature, the paper seeks to give a complete overview of the contemporary uses of passive and syntactic functions affected by voice shift.

va Bs Veszprm, Hungary buse@[Link]

The Verbal Icon revisited

The presentation is designed to try to grasp and depict certain metaphorical properties owned by the outer shape (skhema) and inner form (morphe) of literary works and to attempt to demonstrate the possible points of convergence discernible between metaphor and genre theory. The project actually started as an experiment with Wimsatts insightful proposition made in The Verbal Icon (1954) about the metaphorical structure of poems to finally become a technique of reading narrative and dramatic texts as the vehicles of large metaphors. The theoretical background of this particular method of reading is offered by metaphor theory and such studies which concern themselves with questions of the organizing forces shaping literary works and operating within literature itself. The relevance of the conceptions central to these studies could, in my understanding, be extended to propose the possibility of grasping metaphoricity in such composite categories as modes and genres.

Mdlina Cerban Craiova, Romania madalina_cerban@[Link]

Identifying boundaries between clause complexes and ranking clauses

The paper proposes a classification of the most common problems that can appear when analyzing the relationships in clause complexes and ranking clauses within systemic functional framework. The first part of the article discusses the difficulties of picking up the unit of analysis that would help us identify the boundaries in clause complexes. We will explain the differences between written and spoken texts, pointing out the existence of two possible approaches in the case of spoken tests: minimal length approach that takes into consideration only unambiguous clause complex relationships, hypotaxis as well as parataxis, and the maximal length approach that may be taken into account only in cases where a logico-semantic paratactic link is debatable or not. The second part of the paper analyses three main problems which may arise in determining where clauses begin and end within a complex: (i) is a clause embedded or included?; (ii) how do we differentiate between verbal group complex or clause complex?; (iii) how do we distinguish a separate clause from a circumstance within a clause?

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Tanja Cvetkovi Ni, Serbia tanjac@[Link]

Translating Robert Kroetschs The Studhorse Man

The paper focuses on the translation of the book The Studhorse Man, written by the Canadian author Robert Kroetsch. The translation of the novel was published by Nolit in 2009. The author of the paper examines to which extent the techniques of foreignisation and domestication are applied in the work of translation and how the original text from the source culture is adapted to the target culture. The author also lists Canadianisms from the novel and their Serbian equivalencies. By analyzing the translated text and by focusing on the translators (in)visibility, the author proves that, more often than not, domestication prevails in the translated text.

Sndor Czegldi Veszprm, Hungary czegledi@[Link]

The 111th Congress and federal-level language policy in the United States
The overarching goal of this paper is to prove through the analysis of all language-related legislative proposals introduced and debated during the 111th Congress (2009-2010) that diverse manifestations of language policies are clearly present on the federal legislative agenda, well beyond the traditionally recognized triad of (1) setting educational policy for language minority children; (2) ensuring access to civil rights and government services; and (3) efforts to declare English the sole official language of the United States (Schmidt 2000). In order to point out the manifold realizations of language policies at federal level, the paper sets forth a possible descriptive framework or accounting scheme (Cooper 1989), based on Nahirs systematization of language planning goals (1984/2003). The results of the legislative analysis are to be compared to and contrasted with similar research findings concerning previous congresses in order to finetune observations made about the changing nature of American linguistic culture or language ideology.

Jovana Dimitrijevi Savi / Danica Jerotijevi Kragujevac, Serbia; Kragujevac, Serbia [Link]@[Link]; danicajerotijevic@[Link]

Serbian learners production of English interdental fricatives: the effects of speech style on production accuracy
This study investigates the effects of speech style on production accuracy of English interdental fricatives by young Serbian L1 learners of English. In this, it continues an established research tradition in SLA focusing on variation in interlanguage (IL) and, in particular, in IL phonology, developed as a response to conventional studies which tend to assume that a single fixed variant will be categorically substituted for a given L2 target variant by an L1 group. A multivariate account of variation patterns in the production of English interdental fricatives by elementary school students was used to discover which combinations of internal and external factors (e.g. Preston 2002; Fasold and Preston 2007) best account for accurate production of the English interdental fricatives by young Serbian learners across three different speech styles.

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Marta Dimitrijevi Ni, Serbia martadimitrijevic@[Link]

Think-aloud protocols, non-native speakers and the use of the definite article
Cognitive grammar (Langacker 1987, 1991, 1999) is based, in part, on the assumption that the language / linguistic structures we use reflect our construal of the world around us. Different languages reflect different construals, which can oftentimes prove to be a stumbling block in learning a new language. This has allowed cognitive grammar to find a place in second language research (Robinson & Ellis 2008; Littlemore 2010). One way of gaining insight into NNS construals is through a verbal account of L2 use the so-called think-aloud protocol. The goal of this paper is to evaluate the role that think-aloud protocols, in various forms, have played in SLA research, and their use in research which investigated the use aimed at the use of the definite article among L1 Serbian/L2 English speakers at the tertiary level. Using think-aloud protocols as article comprehension tasks may give us new ideas about how to present and instruct these NNS on the use of the definite article in English.

Gordana Dimkovi Telebakovi Belgrade, Serbia gargatel@[Link]

Current issues in adverb categorization

The goal of this paper is to outline the state of affairs in modern approaches to adverb categorization. It has been shown in the literature (see Jackendoff 1972, 1973, 1977; Bresnan 1973; Emonds 1976, 1985; Larson 1985; Radford 1988; Corver 1991; Alexiadou 1997, 2002; Haumann 2007, for instance) that adverbs can be viewed as adjectives, prepositions, nouns, degree elements and/or quantifiers. Examples taken from the BNC and dictionaries are also provided to demonstrate that some adverbs can be classified as numbers, conjunctions, verbs and exclamations. The recategorization of adverbs as such imposes raising the question Do adverbs come together as one distinct category at all?. In an endeavour to answer the posed question, the interplay between syntax and semantics of adverbs is explored.

Irina-Ana Drobot Bucharest, Romania anadrobot@[Link]

Witty and lyrical language in Virginia Woolfs Orlando and Graham Swifts The Light of Day
The purpose of the paper is to compare issues related to language in Woolfs Orlando and Swifts The Light of Day. The issues related to language will be analyzed by taking into account the influence of Modernism and Postmodernism, as well as features of the lyrical novel (as presented by Ralph Freedman and Karen Kaivola). Harold Bloom, in The Western Canon, notices that Orlando is a defense of poetry, half laughing, half seriously, as Woolf remarked in her diary. As Wood notices, Georges language is full of subtle linguistic effects, and even a fugitive lyricism (Lea 2005). The importance of language in the two novels is underlined by the fact that both Orlando and George will have the opportunity to improve their language skills. There may be features which indicate continuity between the two trends or an author may deviate from the trend normally associated with his/her time.

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Zorica ergovi Joksimovi Novi Sad, Serbia djzorica@[Link]

The ontology of space: utopia, dystopia and heterotopia in Marge Piercys Woman on the Edge of Time
It was in his essay Des Espaces Autres (1967) that Michel Foucault introduced the term heterotopia to denote one of two sites that have the curious property of being in relation with all the other sites, but in such a way as to suspect, neutralize, or invert the set of relations that they happen to designate, mirror, or reflect. The other of the two sites is, of course, utopia. In the narration of space, which any literary utopia basically is, space becomes one of the primary ontological concerns through which all other utopian aspects are reflected. The aim of this paper is to present Marge Piercys novel Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) as a valuable work in which as different spatial structures as utopia, dystopia and heterotopia coexist thus providing us with ample material for the study of ontology of space in a literary work.

Jasmina orevi Novi Sad, Serbia [Link]@[Link]

Web 2.0 tools in the ELT classroom: Hot Potatoes and Dvolver
The aim of this presentation is to offer an overview of two very effective Web 2.0 applications, Hot Potatoes and Dvolver, that may easily be incorporated into the ELT process at all levels to further the acquisition of particular segments of a planned syllabus. In order to show how these two applications may influence the teaching process, they have been tested in real classroom conditions for the teaching of a portion of Legal English with students at tertiary level. At the end of the class the students were asked to complete a questionnaire regarding their attitude to the way the class had been conducted. The qualitative and quantitative analysis of their answers will show that the incorporation of Web 2.0 in general may positively influence the process of ELT.

Biljana ori Francuski Belgrade, Serbia bdjoric@[Link]

Whats in a name? Adopting ancient Indian practices in 21st century cross-cultural translation studies
In the Indian literary tradition transcreation denotes creative translations of culturally-oriented classic Sanskrit texts or, in other words, reinterpreting rather than literally translating the ST in such a way that it should suit the TT readers culturally, socially and aesthetically. The purpose of this paper is to advocate, in line with Susan Bassnetts cultural turn in translation studies, for transcreation in the sense of interpreting, transposing and recreating the ST, instead of translating it word-for-word, in the case of rendering contemporary Indian English literature into languages of limited diffusion. The fundamental hypothesis is that the translator of cross-cultural texts has a viable option of moving beyond fidelity and using the power of a creator to destabilize the ST and adapt it to the TC, by twisting Andr Lefeveres conceptual and textual grids, in an original and imaginary way through a culture-informed approach.

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Tatjana urovi Belgrade, Serbia tdjurovic@[Link]

Englishisation of the European Union viewed through metaphorical lenses

The paper investigates how metaphors used to describe the prevalent role of English in the European language policy shape the issue of multilingualism in the European Union. Analysing discursive strength of the metaphorical expressions, such as lingua frankensteinia, cuckoo, linguicide, linguistic capital dispossession, balanced language ecology, linguascape, etc., selected from the articles, in particular those written by Robert Phillipson, as well as official documents we explore the structure of several conceptual metaphors (LANGUAGE IS A LIVING ORGANISM, LANGUAGE IS AN OBJECT, etc.) and examine their consequences for social practice. In other words, we try to find out whether the implicit language policy in the European Union is rather slanted towards the use of English in spite of the EU language policy officials pursuit of constructing a modern tower of Babel, at the risk of creating unintelligible European language space.

Aida Diho Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina aidadziho@[Link]

Poetic nature of the feminine sentence

The intent of this paper is to analyze linguistic and stylistic features of the poetic discourse in Virginia Woolfs novel Mrs. Dalloway. The paper will explore the term of feminine sentence or the psychological sentence of the feminine gender that Woolf writes about in her essay A Room of Ones Own and explain it in the light of a much broader notion emerging in the twentieth century, that being the poetisation of prose. The analysis of her language and style in Mrs. Dalloway will show that in her attempt to abandon the traditional sentence, and more importantly to immerse into the depths of human consciousness, Woolf uses the process of expressive syntax or syntactic figures in the literary text as well as metaphor and personification, which make the nature of her prose extremely poetic. Furthermore, the paper will explain the correlation between the flow of her sentence and the flow of experience she wants to render.

Borislava Erakovi Novi Sad, Serbia bobaerakovic@[Link]

The role of extratextual factors in the acquisition of translation competence

This paper deals with problems in the acquisition of pragmatic aspects of bilingual translation subcompetence, as exemplified by students inadequate decisions and choice of translation strategies when confronted with particular extralinguistic problems in translation. The Measuring Instrument for the Acquisition of Translation Competence (Pacte 2000) helped the researcher expose the problems and analysis of the answers demonstrated that a possible remedy for these issues can be found if students are asked to fulfill different translation skopoi for one and the same source text.

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Sonja Filipovi Kovaevi Novi Sad, Serbia sonjaf@[Link]

Names of advertised products as mini advertisements a cognitive-linguistic view

This paper studies creative aspects of language use in advertising. It focuses on attention-grabbing names of advertised products in English which do not relate either directly or solely to the product advertised. For example, Spyware Doctor names a programme against spyware, Turboccino names coffee. The aim is to show that these very simple linguistic structures hide the implied meanings meant by advertisers, and as such function as mini advertisements themselves. In order to show how meaning is inferred from these simple linguistic structures the theoretical framework of conceptual integration is applied. This theory accounts for dynamic, online construction of meaning by showing how mental spaces are activated and blended in specific ways. The results of the research show how names of advertised products prompt particular mental spaces and their blending, which results in inferred meanings. Also, different types of linguistic prompting of meaning organised in mental spaces are determined.

Vesna Gajiin Novi Sad, Serbia toramenor@[Link]

Participles in English and Serbian daily newspapers

The paper analyses and compares participles as heads of non-finite clauses in English and Serbian journalistic functional styles and attempts to determine their syntactic, semantic and functional similarities and differences. A corpus of examples was chosen for each language: from a British and from a Serbian daily newspaper. The approach to analysing these examples is not purely syntactic, but also tries to include the semantic and pragmatic levels, as well as the role of context and style. Differences in frequency and distribution of participles within a sentence are explained through syntactic and semantic rules and restrictions in Serbian, while the use of participles in newspaper headlines is influenced by differing stylistic conventions in English and Serbian journalism.

Tatjana Gluac Novi Sad, Serbia [Link]@[Link]

Teaming up to overcome the 21st-century classroom challenges

The 21st century classroom is an increasingly changeable environment in which teachers are required to update their knowledge and skills constantly. Professional development should, therefore, become a continuous activity rather than a single event. In a situation when opportunities for professional development are scarce, inadequate or costly, peer coaching, as a form of classroom supervision, may be a valuable solution. The aim of the paper is to indicate to the need for teacher cooperation for overcoming classroom challenges. The paper is based on the results of a yearlong research project in which 12 English language teachers attempted to overcome their teaching difficulties by transforming their personal knowledge into a collective, shared and cohesive professional knowledge. The results obtained clearly indicate to the fact that peer coaching yields desired changes related to the teaching practice and students knowledge even though it is a lengthy process entailing extensive logistics.

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Andrew Goodspeed Tetovo, Macedonia [Link]@[Link]

how come youre so afraid of things that dont make any sense to you? The validity of illogic in Bob Dylans Tarantula
I argue that Bob Dylan, in his only novel Tarantula, makes a continuous, if somewhat oblique, argument that contemporary urban life is compounded of lies, fraudulence, criminals and yet also and much more importantly individual humans living honest lives that may, by traditional standards, be considered the underclass. I suggest that this ties this novel to the similar efforts made in American literature immediately precedent to this novel (particularly the Beat writers Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg), and to the novel written by Dylans Canadian counterpart, Leonard Cohen (specifically, Cohens novel Beautiful Losers). This interpretation is not merely thematic, but is also formal all of the works that I propose to compare with Dylans Tarantula share his employment of inconsecutive narrative and grammatical fragmentation to illustrate the incoherent brokenness of contemporary society and discourse.

Vladislava Gordi Petkovi Novi Sad, Serbia vladysg@[Link]

References and resonances: Tennessee Williams and William Shakespeare

The plays of Tennessee Williams written between 1945 and 1960 seem to be haunted by Shakespearean characters and motifs and in many of them we witness powerful transformations of Shakespearean tragedy. A staggering mixture of revenge, sexual desire and imminent destruction, Williamss plays with prevailing mythical pattern, such as Suddenly Last Summer, or Orpheus Descending, offer an array of echoes and resonances to Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth. Although the American playwright downplayed the impact of Shakespeare on his work, the critics cannot ignore the fact that his female characters resemble Ophelia, Lady Macbeth and Cleopatra, whereas references wheels of fire, brief candles, antic dispositions and mortal coils regularly occur in the plays of Tennessee Williams. The paper will try to answer the following question: was Williams writing an American tragedy with Shakespeares drama in mind?

Ana Halas Novi Sad, Serbia anahalas@[Link]

The treatment of polysemous lexemes in English-Serbian dictionaries

The aim of the research described in this paper is to gain an insight into the ways in which different dictionaries deal with lexicographic difficulties related to the treatment of polysemous lexemes: the number of senses a dictionary offers, sense discrimination, the structure and organization of an entry, the typical context of a sense illustrated by example phrases and sentences and labelling of different senses and subsenses. These are five criteria on the basis of which three polysemous and synonymous verbs (drive, ride and fly) were analysed as the entries in three English-Serbian dictionaries: Englesko-srpskohrvatski renik (Benson 1986), Englesko-hrvatski ili srpski rjenik (Filipovi 1993) and ESSE renik (Kovaevi 1998). The comparison of the entries in each dictionary reveals potential irregularities in the strategies for dealing with the relevant lexicographic issues and contributes to the development of an optimal strategy for the treatment of polysemous lexemes in English-Serbian dictionaries.

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Sabina Halupka Reetar Novi Sad, Serbia [Link]@[Link]

Clefts, pseudo-clefts and reverse pseudo-clefts as major constructions for expressing information structure in English
The present paper gives an account of cleft (e.g. It is John who I want to marry), pseudo-cleft (Who I want to marry is John) and reverse pseudo-cleft constructions (John is who I want to marry) in terms of their information structure potential, i.e. whether they serve the purpose of expressing the theme or the focus of the sentence and, in the latter case, whether it is the information focus or the contrastive focus that each of these structures emphasizes. The second part of the paper aims at establishing the degree of prototypicality of each of these constructions as a means of achieving topic-focus articulation.

Nataa Ili Belgrade, Serbia ilic_natasa11@[Link]

The didactic implications of translation-oriented text analysis

This paper aims to investigate the beliefs about translation and the translation strategies of the second year students from the English Department of the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade. For this purpose we have constructed a questionnaire that provided an opportunity for a quantitative analysis of the factors that influence students beliefs as well as the principles that guide them in translation. At this stage, translation courses are still part of the language course called The Contemporary English Language II. It is our estimate, therefore, that students might tend to view translation as a tool to improve their language skills and not as a professional skill in its own right. Consequently, the strategies that they use in translation might be those that would ensure grammatical and lexical accuracy of the target text. The results of the study are then analyzed and discussed with particular reference to Christiane Nords translation-oriented text analysis model with its set of clearly defined criteria that might help students make more informed decisions in the process of translation.

Ana Ivandeki Belgrade, Serbia [Link]@[Link]

Similes in English: semantic and pragmatic aspects

A considerable number of current cognitive linguistic studies of similes reduce them to metaphors, without much further analysis of the meanings and uses involved. Through a corpus analysis of 470 similes of two structural types, with the linking word as (e.g. as strong as a horse) and the linking word like (e.g. to drop like a stone), which have been collected from seventeen modern British literary works of different genres, this paper aims to shed fresh light on the semantic and pragmatic aspects of similes, including underlying conceptual metaphors, their typical source and target domains, and the creative ways similes are used in fiction. The results of the research are expected to show the existence of more diversity in the semantics and pragmatics of similes than is at present recognized.

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Aleksandra Izgarjan Novi Sad, Serbia izgarjan@[Link]

Names and naming in Toni Morrisons novels Beloved and Song of Solomon
The meaning of the characters names in Morrisons novels reflects not just their personalities, but also their origin and the position they occupy in African American community and American society. Intricate process of naming allows Morrison to depict her characters painful personal and communal histories and to show their resilient spirit. Naming, like signifying, serves African Americans to endure, sometimes even overcome, difficult circumstances by immunizing themselves against racial slurs. In the novel Beloved, names of the characters testify to the tragedy of slavery, while in the novel Song of Solomon they bear witness to various forms of oppression of African American people from the period of slavery to 1960s. The analysis of names and the process of naming in Morrisons novels gives us valuable insight into the ways the author creates her characters and the worlds they inhabit.

Allan James Klagenfurt, Austria [Link]@[Link]

English as a partial language: a sociolinguistics of its international use

Sociolinguistic analysis of international English has oscillated uncertainly between understanding the language as (structural) code vs. (semiotic) resource. A paradigm study of code analysis is Schneider (2007) and of resource analysis Blommaert (2010), for example. However, it will be argued that a fine-tuned multilayered/plurilithic framework of formal-functional analysis which recognises the identification, representation and action semiotics of English in international use (cf. Fairclough 2005) as being directly manifested in its structure at the level, respectively, of dialect, register and genre (cf. Pennycook 2010) can resolve the seemingly opposing dichotomies of code and resource, structure and agency, etc. via a process of structuration (Giddens 1984). It can also be shown that the organisation and function of the potential structural-semiotic frameworks available reflects, respectively, the fundamental contrastive, culminative and concatenative patterning of language. Data from a variety of corpora of international English will be examined in illustration of the theoretical arguments.

Sonja Jankov Prague, Czech Republic jankovsonja@[Link]

Peter Greenaways cenotaph for Joycean modernity: a portrait of the architect at fifty four
In this paper, aspects of the language of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Stephen Hero are regarded as temporal gestalt (shape of an entitys complete form) through analysing short passages from these Joyces novels. Simultaneously would be shown shots from Peter Greenaways 1987 film The Belly of an Architect which are reflecting the directors concern with visual reproduction, citation and remediation. Greenaway, as if following the dictum per aspera ad astra from a lecture of Stephens dean on distinguishing the beautiful and the sublime, presents Stourley Kracklites conscious encountering with his own real state through realisations of tienne-Louis Boulles planetarium the cenotaph for Sir Isaac Newton and postcard images of Rome which serve in place of Stephens diary. Changing, through immediacy of film medium, the postcard ontology of postality, envois (Jacques Derrida 1987) into complete arrival, Greenaways film enables return to Joyces texts where everything seen is reality, but reality of thinking process and not of actual happenings in space and time (Slavoj iek 2006).

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Vera Janjatovi Subotica, Serbia integrale@[Link]

The use of anglicisms in womens fashion magazines in Serbian: morphological analysis

This paper deals with anglicisms taken from Serbian fashion magazines for women. It belongs to the field of morphology concerning word-formation, morphological productivity and creativity. The anglicisms related to fashion are classified into phrasal nouns, compounds, blendings, clippings and acronyms, according to the word-formation processes involved in their creation. All of them are found in the thorough analysis which tries to introduce the prescriptive level besides the current descriptive approach. The aim of this paper is to prove the fact that the language of the written media influences the everyday use of Serbian in a very unfavourable way. The criterion of negative selection is applied and the words are chosen according to their exceptionality and distance from the regularity of the rules. The results of the analysis have showed that the majority of anglicisms from the semantic field of fashion are created by the rules of primary circle of wordformation.

Tamara Jevri Belgrade, Serbia tamarajevric@[Link]

The study of the problem of absolute synonyms in relation to their collocational behaviour
Absolute synonyms are defined as words which pass the test of substitutability or interchangeability. This diagnostic tool for synonymy theoretically allows the possibility of existence of absolute synonyms. The immediate objective of this study was to prove absolute synonymy an impossibility. To this end we created the corpus by collecting the synonyms explicitly given in the so-called extra column in two dictionaries: the Collins Cobuild Dictionary for Advanced Learners and the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary. We analysed the circumstances in which these words appear by examining their collocational behaviour. For this purpose the Oxford Collocations Dictionary was used. In the examination we have not encountered pairs of synonyms with all matching collocational attributes. This discovery demonstrates that absolute synonymy is non-existent and it completes our understanding about the complexity of the issue.

Jelena Jovievi Ni, Serbia jjovicevic@[Link]

Use of violence on stage in the portrayal of modern culture in Sarah Kanes Blasted
The paper will focus on British playwright Sarah Kanes play Blasted through which she presented, by means of sexual and violent images, contemporary issues about war, gender and the medias insensitive manipulation of the news, with the purpose of making the audience abandon positions of casual observers and awakening their moral sensibilities. With the aim of portraying political atmosphere of the time, in the course of which the concept of justice got blurred by false ideological pretences, Sarah Kane relied on the work of Edward Bond whose defense of Marxist principles and literature from their postmodern trivialization will provide a critical perspective to this paper. The purpose of the paper will be to draw attention to the powerful and unique voice of Sarah Kane and other in-yer-face playwrights who made theater art capable of revealing the truth not only about the society but also about notions of morality and ourselves.

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Nataa Karanfilovi Novi Sad, Serbia karanfil@[Link]

Ghosts and ghastly creatures of the Down-Underworld the Australian ghost story
Based on a selection of ghost stories published in Australia over an extended period of time, from colonial to contemporary fiction, the paper aims to define the Australian variety of the genre. The paper traces deep anxieties of a transplanted culture as reflected in the duly transported genre, whose major driving force is (irrational) fear of the unknown and unexplored. In the beginning, the genre itself is haunted by its European predecessor until it takes root in the Australian soil and becomes enriched by the pre-European tradition of Aboriginal lore. As the developing society (nation) gains confidence, its ghost stories come tinged with irony and humour, and ghosts start prowling not only the bush but town alleys as well.

Aleksandar Kavgi / Olga Pani Kavgi Novi Sad, Serbia; Novi Sad, Serbia [Link]@[Link]; olgapk@[Link]

Computer-related terminology in Serbian: a diachronic analysis of borrowing trends, translation and adaptation strategies
The aim of this pilot research is to determine certain general trends in translation and adaptation strategies within the lexical field of English computer-related terms employed by Serbian journalists in different temporal segments spanning from 1986 to 2010. The secondary aim of the research is to establish the chronology of borrowing, periods of mass borrowing (if any) and to determine the predominant trends for each period. The research will be based on the corpus consisting of one issue of the Serbian computer magazine Svet kompjutera for every four-year period from the temporal frame being analyzed. The research will employ the quantitative methodology of corpus linguistics paired with a theoretical analysis based on the frameworks of pragmatics and translation studies. It is expected that the research will identify a number of periods characterized by specific trends in the quantity of borrowing from English, as well as specific translation and adaptation strategies.

Smiljka Kesi / Valentina Mikluc Belgrade, Serbia; Belgrade, Serbia innuendo_es@[Link]; miklucv@[Link]

Voicing metamorphoses: I, too, overflow

The paper aims at analyzing the concepts of social customs, uniformity, conscious limitations and fixed patterns contrasted with senses, diffusion, surrealist images and metamorphoses by focusing on comparable ideas associated with Aristophanes, Ovid, Virginia Woolf and Hlne Cixous. The metaphors of the opposing (male/female) perception on the matters of life and transience, endless and the enclosed are the key elements of the interpretative analysis. The authors suggest various answers to the questions what is relevant, how to prevent war, what revitalizes productive tendencies, thus reestablishing the hard-wired conventions of the imposing system. Even though the walls are raised to keep the creative energy from overflowing, the texts show that it spreads, it disturbs and it holds sway.

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Sanja Krimer Gaborovi Subotica, Serbia krimers@[Link]

Semantics and pragmatics of English and Serbian colour naming lexemes

The paper explores both the universal and the culture specific aspects of meaning of the English and Serbian lexemes expressing basic colour terms (Berlin and Kay 1969). Their semantics is explained in terms of the interaction of lexical meaning with lexical pragmatics. Pragmatic phenomena connected with the semantic underspecification of lexical items are illustrated by the pragmatics of colour naming adjectives, systematic polysemy, lexical blocking, etc. The universal human concepts are isolated by removing a culturedependant analytical framework. These concepts are most obvious in black and white, stemming from the universal distinction between dark and light respectively, as well as red and green, based on the colour of human/animal blood and of nature respectively. The conclusion which arises is that in a cross/cultural perspective, pragmatics often fails to actually describe the meaning, since it is semantics which is a key to understanding cross-cultural pragmatics not the other way round.

Viktorija Krombholc Novi Sad, Serbia viksic@[Link]

(In)visibility and power in Sarah Waterss Affinity

Sarah Waters second novel Affinity is set in the infamous London prison, designed by Jeremy Bentham with the aim of achieving the principle of panopticism of complete and constant surveillance of the prisoners. The novel takes up this idea and places the characters within a complex network of visible and invisible positions, of looking and being looked at. Margaret Prior, a Lady Visitor at the prison, is initially given a seemingly superior position which exposes the prisoners to her gaze. The aim of the paper is to explore how her position is undermined as the novel progresses until it becomes clear that she is the one under scrutiny, which ultimately leads to her demise.

Gordana Lali Krstin Novi Sad, Serbia glalic1@[Link]

Blending on the edge: borderline cases between blending and other word-formation processes
Word-formation processes are often thought of as clearly identifiable and easily distinguishable. Although this may be true of clear-cut, central examples, within each of the processes there are less clear cases, bordering on a neighbouring category. For instance, most would agree that labradoodle [labrad(or) + (p)oodle] is a prototypical lexical blend, but not blamestorm [blame + (brain)storm], bioneer [bio- + (p)ioneer] or multiverse [multi- + (uni)verse] because they exhibit some characteristics of compounding, neoclassical compounding and prefixation, respectively. The goal of this paper is to give an overview of these borderline cases by first defining the prototype of blending and then describing the deviations from it found in the corpus of 826 English blends.

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Nina Lazarevi Ni, Serbia [Link]@[Link]

Making sense of cultural differences culture assimilators for the Serbian EFL context
Intercultural competence (ICC) has been a widely researched field, however, its inclusion in English language classes has not been that successful (Kramsch 2003) since communicative competence is still seen as the main goal of language teaching. However, the globalised world requires not only communicative but also intercultural competences and skills (Byram 2005, 2008). Therefore, some techniques which stem from the field of intercultural communication teaching might be used in foreign language classes to raise students awareness and build competence (Sen Gupta 2003; Aguilar 2008; Scarino 2009). The focus of the paper is a set of newly created culture assimilators for the Serbian cultural context. The specific form of assimilators is explained, aspects of culture they commonly include are discussed (Brislin and Kushner 1996), as well as why and how they have been compiled. Finally, it will be shown how these assimilators could be incorporated in language teaching practice and why they are important for both language and ICC teaching.

Mihaela Lazovi Novi Sad, Serbia laz13@[Link]

The structure and semantics of accomplishments in English and Romanian

This paper aims to define the structure and the meaning of accomplishments in English and Romanian by comparing progressive achievements and accomplishments and analyzing the influence of resultative predication on activity verbs. The analysis of the corpus is expected to show that accomplishments are not progressive achievements since they have different internal structure; rather accomplishments include an activity event and a change of state indicating the terminal point of the situation.

Vesna Lazovi Novi Sad, Serbia lazovicvesna@[Link]

Reflective journal as self-assessment tool in ELT

With new teaching methods focusing more on students metacognitive skills, reflective journals along with portfolios have become recognised as efficient tools in learning. A conscious and deliberate, yet very responsible process of keeping a reflective journal encourages self-directed learning, deepens the understanding of learning process and enhances students motivation. This paper gives one example of how reflective journals can be used in English language teaching. The first-year students at the Department of English had to keep track of all the self-assessment tasks given throughout the academic year 2009/10 with the prime focus of their journals being on impressions and observations of their speaking abilities. Referred to as the guided and structured, this type of journal comprised a variety of tasks assigned by the teacher, but private thoughts and additional comments were encouraged as well. Based on students feedback given in the interviews at the end of the year, the paper further emphasises how beneficial and influential the introduction and use of reflective journals in ELT can be.

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Vesna Lopii / Milena Kosti Ni, Serbia; Ni, Serbia [Link]@[Link]; mkostic76@[Link]

Race and gender in Emily Pauline Johnsons A Red Girls Reasoning

Johnson questions the stereotypes of mixed-race and female in the patriarchal world of North America after the creation of Canada in 1867. Being herself an offspring of a Mohawk chief and British noblewoman, she ridicules the Victorian notions of prudery, especially when imposed on the First Nations women. Johnsons narrative is based on the dismissal of the Indian and female inferiority and the claim for their equal treatment, thus reflecting Saids vision of the resistance on the part of the Other: to re-chart and occupy the place in imperial cultural forms reserved for subordination, fighting for it on the same territory once ruled by the consciousness that assumed the subordination of a designated inferior Other (Culture and Imperialism, 1993). This paper focuses on the issues of race and gender in A Red Girls Reasoning (from The Moccasin Maker, 1913) and their connection with contemporary notions of biculturalism and feminism.

Arijana Luburi Cvijanovi Novi Sad, Serbia alcvijanovic@[Link]

Echoes of William Blake and gota Kristf in Chris Abanis Song for Night
Chris Abanis novella Song for Night records a West African child soldiers nightmarish journey of selfdiscovery through a warzone landscape in search of his platoon. Tracing the narrators haunting story, the paper aims at exploring the Blakean concept of innocence and experience and drawing parallels with gota Kristfs The Notebook, another account of the loss of innocence in war. Special attention is paid to the point of view as it plays a crucial role in shedding light on the narrators passage from innocence to experience, from ignorance to knowledge, against the backdrop of unspeakable brutalities which the child adapts to.

Sergej Macura Belgrade, Serbia gargantua_xp@[Link]

Some conceptions of inception: what Christopher Nolan owes to Jorge Luis Borges
Following Seymour Chatmans observation that narrative itself is a deep structure quite independent of its medium, we have subjected to intertextual scrutiny two seemingly distant corpora of narrative techniques, artistic themes and cultural topoi the recent film Inception directed by Christopher Nolan and various shorter texts by the author of perhaps the most condensed 20th-century fiction, J. L. Borges. The parallels can be found in the crucial motif/structure of a dream, in which the real action is taking place, the circularity of time and its eternal repetition, the obliteration of the dividing line between reality and dreaming, especially during the transitions from the upper to the lower strata of the dream, all the while supported by a noticeably symmetric narrative framework, one that Shklovsky would have termed a staircase plot. The principal texts that could have influenced Nolan include Tln, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, The Circular Ruins and certain fragments from The History of Eternity.

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Aleksandra Mari Belgrade, Serbia anjamaric@[Link]

My phony role as husband and father: performing masculinities in Don DeLillos Underworld
Discussing the ways in which heterosexual, homosexual and female masculinities are acted out in the central and parallel plots of DeLillos Underworld, this paper tries to explore a wide range of the presented masculine psychologies, showing that these parts are largely developed as constructs of the changeable socio-cultural setting of post World War II America. The characters in Underworld, especially men, are all too aware that they must perform the fixed roles if they are to be accepted as a good parent, lover, child, colleague and friend, so they feel incompetent and ill-at-ease as they come to realize that they can never fully comply with the imposed ideals. Even though they are frustrated at this failure, most of the characters believe they need to take it like a man and keep their anxieties and fears at bay, so as not to be marked as effeminate and become socially marginalized.

Ivana Mari Novi Sad, Serbia ivana84maric@[Link]

Postcolonial readings of identity in Arundhati Roys The God of Small Things and Kiran Desais The Inheritance of Loss: ambivalence and mimicry
The paper discusses the issue of identity and its rethinking within the frames of postcolonial literary theory with the focus on ambivalence and mimicry, as proposed by the critic Homi Bhabha. The characters of Pappachi in TGOST and the judge in TIOL reproduce the colonial cultural norms and in doing so are produced as colonial subjects, fixed in the relationship of subordination. The possibility of resistance of such colonial subjects does not reside in an overt opposition but in the inherent ambivalence of the dominant colonial discourse which needs but simultaneously rejects its colonised Other. By mimicking the cultural norms of the coloniser Pappachi and the judge contest the colonial subject construction.

Ljiljana Markovi Ni, Serbia [Link]@[Link]

Do you play Barnga? having intercultural encounters in the EFL classroom in Serbia
Teaching sociolinguistic competence (Canale and Swain 1980; Bachman 1990) or sociocultural competence (Celce-Murcia, Dornyei and Thurrell 1995) in the EFL classroom can be quite a challenge especially if inter- and cross-cultural communication is taught to a homogeneous class. A classroom activity useful in raising students awareness of intercultural communication problems and in teaching sociolinguistic / sociocultural competence is Barnga. This card game manages to turn the homogeneous classroom into an intercultural community by replacing cultural rules, procedures and behaviour with the card-game instructions, thus engaging students whole personality and provoking real-life reactions. This paper will present the analysis of the journal-entry reflections of 3rd-year English Department students on how they experienced this intercultural encounter. Judging from our previous experience, their journal entries will contain information on individual affective reactions, increased introspection, a new understanding of non-verbal communication and the importance of language as well as views on what comprises culture.

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Maja Markovi Novi Sad, Serbia majamarkovic@[Link]

Acquiring second language prosody: fundamental frequency

The study investigates the differences between prosodic aspects of speech by native speakers of English and foreign learners whose native language is Serbian. The paper is primarily concerned with fundamental frequency (F0) in terms of pitch range, main stress and tunes. The study was carried out on the recordings of read text by 15 first year university students of English and a control native speaker of British English. The recorded material was acoustically analyzed, compared and presented statistically. The results indicate that (a) the non-native speakers speech is characterized by a narrower pitch range, (b) the native speaker and the learners use different prosodic cues to indicate main stress and (c) the tunes of the native speakers utterances significantly differ from those of the learners. The author proposes that these features are among the latest acquired ones in L2.

Claire McGrail Johnston Limerick, Ireland clairemcgrail1@[Link]

The modern Irish novel a wild orchestration of the body?

The modern Irish novel will be explored in terms of an Irigarayan dwelling place and the reader / writer dialectic as an active process of Irigarayan intersubjectivity. The Gothic is viewed potentially as a means by which we may return behind or beyond all our discourses and knowledge (Irigaray 2004: 3) thus facilitating an engagement within the intersubjective relationship and highlighting how the acts of reading and writing ultimately become Gothicized. Described as made of our flesh, our heart, our thinking, and our words (Irigaray 2004: 7), I will ask how far can these theoretical tactile spaces help us to view the novel as a credible place of healing and as a haptology of the heart? (Derrida 2005: 251). If love has been thrown to the dark worried margins ofsufficient reason (Marion 2008: 1) we might reclaim it in the novel, with help from the Gothic.

Davor Menzildi Novi Sad, Serbia davormen@[Link]

An error analysis of Serbian English majors written productions

This paper aims to provide a classification and analysis of errors found in the written production of three different generations of students at the English Department of Novi Sad University, as well as determine whether there is a significant variance in error count or type between different generations of students. The ratio of interlingual to intralingual errors in the students interlanguages is determined through a quantitative and qualitative analysis of grammatical, lexical and orthographical errors. In addition to confirming the hypotheses that grammatical errors most often occur when there is a gap in the native language grammar (mainly determiners/articles) and that the students commit more intralingual than interlingual errors (as is expected of advanced EFL learners), the paper will try to shed some light on the factors that might be held responsible for the occurrence of some types of errors and propose ways to overcome them.

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Mira Mili Novi Sad, Serbia mmilic@[Link]

Hindsight analysis of a bilingual dictionary of standardised sports terms

The fact that lexicographic work is a reflection of lexicological thought and constantly changing requirements of the society imposes a need for repeated evaluation of dictionaries and improving them accordingly. Given that this is an open-ended issue, the aim of this paper is to do a hindsight analysis of An English-Serbian dictionary of sports terms (Englesko-srpski renik sportskih termina, 2006). Presentation is divided in three sections. The first outlines the lexicographic model and goals governing its implementation. The second deals with the macrostructure and microstructure of the dictionary. The last section highlights qualities that have stood the test of time, as well as potential upgrades complying with new technologies.

Nataa Milivojevi Novi Sad, Serbia natasazinger@[Link]

Constructing motion with sound: something about the formal properties of English and Serbian sound emission verbs
The paper addresses the question of what semantic properties lexicalized in verbs determine their syntactic behavior. Special attention is devoted to English and Serbian verbs of sound emission regarding their potential to combine with directional phrases within motion event constructions. The aim of the paper is to analyze English and Serbian in contrast considering the effects of animacy in external argument position, as well as the formal contribution of the directional prepositional phrase to the directed motion constructions with sound emission verbs. The present research puts forth wider theoretical implications regarding the theoretically based semantic V classes, Talmys language typology, and the practical and empirically confirmed availability of directed motion construction in English and Serbian, showing that verb classes based solely on semantic properties of the verb, but excluding the conceptual properties of verb arguments may not be the best solution to the appropriate description of verb meaning in general, as verbs both incorporate (root meaning) and project (arguments) whereby some stricter, more formal criteria at syntax-semantics interface may be at play.

Danica Miloevi Ni, Serbia ivana44yu@[Link]

Telling a story of survival

The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to African American authors, Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor and their novels Sula and The Women of Brewster Place respectively, with the intention to explore the themes of female suffering, struggle and survival in African American communities from the beginning towards the end of the 20th century, which are woven in their literary work. The paper will include similar viewpoints of two white writers, Margaret Atwood and Doris Lessing on the same feminine issues, relying substantially on the feminist critique of Adrien Rich. The aim of this paper is to give the power of speech to voices, which are often silenced in modern culture, but which can communicate a very significant message about the treatment of African American women today and their ways to overcome life obstacles caused by poverty and discrimination.

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Biljana Mii Ili Ni, Serbia bmisicilic@[Link]

Syntax-pragmatics interface and the treatment of non-canonical word order constructions

The paper discusses the relevance of including a pragmatic perspective in the study of non-canonical word order constructions in addition to the purely syntactic one. Pragmatic notions such as context, presupposition, focus, shared knowledge, salience, etc. in the past two decades have proved useful in providing a comprehensive description and a coherent account of different non-canonical word order constructions (fronting, passivization, topicalization, clefting, pseudo-clefting, inversion, etc.). Relatively ignored and marginalized in grammatical description in the past, in the light of the theoretical findings stemming from syntax-pragmatics interface, non-canonical word order constructions have received an ample treatment in the recent grammars of English (primarily Huddleston and Pullum 2002), which the author finds significant for both further theoretical studies and practical implications for grammar teaching.

Nina Mudeka Novi Sad, Serbia lorijena@[Link]

A postcolonial dialogue with the other: Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness and David Dabydeens The Intended
Joseph Conrads fictional work Heart of Darkness, published in 1899, proves to be one of the favourite targets of postcolonial criticism and the work that triggered a vast range of postcolonial responses and rewritings. Guyanese-born David Dabydeens 1991 novel The Intended is just one of such rewritings and one of such voices to be heard within a wider postcolonial dialogue with Conrads work. The aim of the paper is to analyze the elements of Conrads novel which make this work such an intriguing and provocative (con)text for exploring postcolonial issues, as well as to analyze the way in which Dabydeen uses Conrads Heart of Darkness as a canonical (inter)text in the Black British immigrant scenario of his novel.

Aleksandar B. Nedeljkovi Kragujevac, Serbia srpsko_dnf@[Link]

Moral equations of the killing of Harry Lime in The Third Man

In the much-celebrated British 1949 movie, based on a text written by Graham Greene, The Third Man, the main villain, Harry Lime (played by Orson Welles) is shot and killed in a famous denouement scene in the sewage tunnels under the war-torn Vienna. If we examine exactly what happens in those last few minutes of Harry Limes life, and in the film as a whole (and in Greenes subsequent book), we see a carefully measured moral balance between friendship and crime, responsibility and evil, and other ethical factors; a purposefully built moral equation. This leads us to notice that in thousands of other works of art, from trivial to highestvalued, there are similar moral equations, in fact very firm and deliberate, deeply rooted in the Christian civilization of the West, even when the casual reader, or film-watcher, might think that the plot is propelled by pure accident and coincidence.

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Predrag Novakov Novi Sad, Serbia novakovp@[Link]

Linguistic and extralinguistic component in translation: English-Serbian examples

As a complex multi-layered process, translation includes both linguistic and extralinguistic knowledge and skills. Namely, a successful translation should reflect both translators linguistic competence (in at least two languages) and familiarity with the broadly understood cultural component of the text translated. The latter component could be also further subdivided into general knowledge acquired during regular education and insights into one or more specific professional fields (like history, biology, etc.). Neglect of this component, necessary for a successful translation, almost always leads to mistranslations or inadequate translations; having that in mind, the paper discusses extralinguistic and linguistic components when the language of the original text is English and the language into which this text is translated is Serbian.

Melisa Okii Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina [Link]@[Link]

Origin of non-head constituent in English adjectival compounds with deverbative head word
English adjectival compounds can be classified as root or synthetic, depending on the morphological profile of the head word. Root adjectival compounds have non-deverbative heads, e.g. lemon-yellow (coat), as opposed to synthetic, whose head word is derived from a verb, e.g. time-consuming (job). The non-head compound constituent of synthetic compounds is usually linked to the argument verb structure, since the non-head constituent usually fulfills the function of the internal argument of the verb (complement), cf. time-consuming > consuming > to consume > to consume time > time-consuming. However, the presence of a deverbative head does not necessarily need to be an indicator that the non-head constituent always originates from the position of the complement, cf. spring-flowering (plant) > *to flower spring > to flower in spring (in spring > adjunct) > spring-flowering vs. time-consuming > to consume time (time > complement) > time-consuming. Therefore, the primary purpose of this study is the classification of English endocentric adjectival compounds with a deverbative head word into the group of synthetic vs. non-synthetic. The primary source of data is the British National Corpus, from which we have selected and analyzed 200 compounds.

Merima Osmankadi Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina merima_o@[Link]

Negation as a means of contrasting or challenging elements of intertextual context

The aim of this paper is to analyze negation in intertextual context. In this paper we adopt the view that negation is inherently marked and that it is used in more complex presuppositional contexts in which corresponding affirmatives have already been discussed or in which the speaker/writer assumes the hearers/readers belief in and familiarity with corresponding affirmative. In order to show this, we must take into account both explicit and implicit negation. The methodology used in this research is corpus analysis. The corpus consists of reports sent by the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Secretary General of the United Nations. These documents will be analyzed as part of a wider extra-linguistic context set in the post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina. This study is expected to show that negation in natural language does not operate according to the rules of logic, but has rather distinct discoursal functions such as denying presuppositions, beliefs and expectations and thus creating ground for possible manipulation of an addressee.

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Nataa Pani Belgrade, Serbia n_panic@[Link]

The romantic mode in A. S. Byatts Possession and David Lodges Small World
The presentation starts with analysis of how Nathaniel Hawthornes concept of romance played out in novels Possession: a Romance by Antonia S. Byatt and Small World: an Academic Romance by David Lodge. The idea is to examine the way in which the genre of romance functions when used as a narrative form with intent to discuss some of the burning academic issues of literature, its practice, theory, and criticism. The issues addressed more closely are the idea of the novel as self-conscious, all-encompassing genre and the ways in which literary modes and forms change over time. The methodological approach builds on the work of Northrop Frye and Mikhail Bakhtin, but goes beyond it, and includes Byatts and Lodges views on literature. The goal at hand is to offer an interpretation which might answer questions such as: How do these texts relate to their sources and how are they in dialogue with previous forms, themes and contexts?

Tatjana Paunovi Ni, Serbia newpaun@[Link]

What did they say? What did they mean? What did you think? Intonation perception in EFL
Intonation has received much attention in EFL research in recent years. Still, few research studies investigate how intonation contours and contrasts are perceived by L2 English learners, especially in the domain of discourse, pragmatic, interactional and illocutionary functions of intonation. In this study we focus on L2 students ability to perceive and make sense of the interactional meaning (Couper-Kuhlen & Selting 1996) in natural conversation. Think-aloud verbal reports (Bowles 2010; Ericsson & Simons 1993) were chosen as the methodological tool for gaining insight in the students interpretation of the presented conversation samples, particularly the information conveyed by intonation. The study aimed to investigate whether explicit training in English phonetics influenced L2 students ability to interpret intonation information, so the performance of first-year and third-year English department students was compared. The findings point to the conclusion that explicit training and awareness raising do play a role in enhancing L2 intonation perception.

Danijela Petkovi Ni, Serbia [Link]@[Link]

India in childrens films: little princesses and secret gardens

The paper analyzes film adaptations of Frances Hodgson Burnetts classical childrens novels, A Little Princess and The Secret Garden, focusing on the representation of India. Burnetts novels, published in the first decade of the twentieth century, are permeated with British imperialist ideology, evident, first and above all, in the discourse of despotism/exoticism regarding India. Thus in The Secret Garden the jewel in the crown is both demonized (linked with decay, disease, death, tyranny) and turned into an exotic source of wealth and intellectual amusement; whereas in A Little Princess the mysterious subcontinent is presented as the source of spectacular wealth and magic only. The films under discussion are Walter Langs The Little Princess (1939), Alfonso Cuarons A Little Princess (1995), and Agnieszka Hollands The Secret Garden (1993). As far as the complex film-novel relationship is concerned, the question addressed in this paper is not whether the story is reproduced faithfully in the films quite the opposite; the focus is on the apparent aberrations/changes/omissions. These editing choices and seemingly slight alterations will in effect mark the films as conservative (the so-called category A films, to borrow the terminology from Comolli and Narbonis Cinema, Ideology, Criticism) or liberal (category B and C films) in relation to the imperialist ideology underlying the novels.

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Rajko Petkovi / Petra Perkov Zadar, Croatia; Zadar, Croatia rpetkovi@[Link]; petraperkov@[Link]

Time and narrative in Ian McEwan and Joe Wrights Atonement

The paper deals with temporal and narrative properties of Ian McEwanss and Joe Wrights Atonement. Playing with the nature of fiction, McEwan has produced a novel of high structural complexity, offering a difficult challenge for film transposition. Written from multiple points of view, the story unfolds through various perspectives, distinguished by many instances of temporal analepses and prolepses. The chronotopical and intertextual nature of the literary original finds a worthy equivalent in Wrights film version, proving the feasibility of successful intermedial transfer of the complex narrative structure. Analysing the narratology of adaptation, the paper aims toward a transformalist approach to adaptation, taking into account the different stylistic devices, dependent on the nature of the two media.

Gordana Petrii Novi Sad, Serbia gordana_petricic@[Link]

Left / right brain dominance and learning styles: implications for EFL instruction
Brain theory research has pointed out that the two hemispheres of the brain perceive and process information differently. The left hemisphere has the verbal, sequential and analytic abilities. The right hemisphere has the global holistic and visual-spatial functions. Our hemispheres work together when we experience or perceive different phenomena. There is, however, a tendency of the dominance of the left hemisphere in the educational system. This dominance greatly affects our approach to learning and teaching. The focus of this presentation is on teaching methods that can help students develop the flexible use of both hemispheres and thus perceive information in both an analytic way as well as a rational one. Teachers need to balance classroom opportunities for students with different learning styles by designing tasks for different sensory modalities and brain-hemisphere strengths.

Vesna Pilipovi Novi Sad, Serbia vesna_pilipovic@[Link]

The acquisition of teaching techniques

Observation of the first classes held by trainee teachers shows that most students on a teacher training course tend to use almost the same lesson shape and just a few teaching techniques which are usually based on the model of teaching presented by their former teachers. The type of teaching they were exposed to seems to have more influence than the theories presented in relevant literature and instructions and advice given by the professor who teaches ELT. This kind of modelling is not just powerful, but often quite limiting in SLT. This is why teacher training courses should involve much more supervised practice and peer cooperation that may lead to a better adoption of contemporary language teaching techniques.

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Jasna Poljak Rehlicki / Ljubica Matek Osijek, Croatia; Osijek, Croatia [Link]@[Link]; [Link]@[Link]

Desire in Hemingways The Sun Also Rises and Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby
The concept of desire is complex and has been dealt with extensively within the field of psychoanalysis. Two most prominent psychoanalysts, Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, have defined desire in different ways, as predominantly sexual and predominantly cultural, respectively. The aim of the paper is to present how each of these two concepts plays off in literature, more precisely in the novels of Ernest Hemingway and Francis Scott Fitzgerald. While Hemingways The Sun Also Rises depicts Freudian, sexual desire as the motivating force of the main protagonists, Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby focuses on desire as a culturally determined factor in human life.

Tvrtko Pri Novi Sad, Serbia tprcic@[Link]

Explicit and non-explicit meaning in morphologically complex words in English

This paper deals with the relationship between what is expressed and what is communicated in morphologically complex words in English, which comprise prefixations (e.g. rewrite), suffixations (e.g. viewer) and compositions (e.g. beefeater). In cases when what is expressed corresponds to what is communicated, the meaning involved is explicit and in cases when what is expressed differs from what is communicated, the meaning involved is non-explicit and realized on a scale of incrementation, i.e. addition of sense components, on the one end, and decrementation, i.e. ultimate replacement of sense components, on the other. The two phenomena can be related to Gricean implicatures, which arise from the violation of maxims of conversation. Identified, discussed in some detail and exemplified will be those maxims whose violation brings about the implicatures correlating with the two kinds of non-explicit meaning.

Diana Prodanovi Stanki Novi Sad, Serbia stankicd@[Link]

Humour as an indispensable part of ELT

The unique properties of humour make it a valuable tool in the process of teaching and acquiring English as a foreign language, in particular when it comes to more advanced courses at university level. In the first place, using humour based on language play (involving different aspects of linguistic structure) in a variety of teaching materials can be very beneficial to helping students improve their ability with language structures. Moreover, it is important that students develop an awareness of humour that is related to culture in order to achieve better command of English as a foreign language. In order to determine the effect humour has on students level of attainment, a small-scale study will be conducted. The results of the study should indicate how humour can be applied to teaching a foreign language and improving students proficiency level.

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Danijela Proi Santovac Novi Sad, Serbia dprosic@[Link]

Critical approaches to fairy tales from the eighteenth century to the present
Extensive scholarship on fairy tales has been accumulated over the long period of more than two centuries. Since the advent of folklore as an academic discipline in the late eighteenth century, scholars have adopted numerous methods and methodologies in order to shed light on various aspects of folk traditions. Tales have been scrutinized from different angles, ranging from folkloristic, mythological, anthropological, and ethnographic, to psychological, linguistic, literary, sociohistorical, and feminist. The sheer abundance of approaches to the study demonstrates the complexity of the matter at hand and the richness of layers underlying the tales. The aim of this paper is to present an overview of these approaches and the key figures, as well as to provide a representative bibliographical list in order to aid further scholarly efforts.

Biljana Radi Bojani Novi Sad, Serbia [Link]@[Link]

Animal metaphors in EFL vocabulary acquisition

Leaning on the theory of applied cognitive linguistics, the paper investigates how a group of EFL university students understand metaphorically used animal names in sentential contexts and how they apply the knowledge of stereotypes connected with various animals to solve problems at the level of vocabulary. Using the qualitative research paradigm, the author relies on classroom observation and interaction with students to closely examine their processes of reasoning, which reveals a variety of language learning strategies. Two different types of exercises, one unguided and the other one teacher-guided, are in fact examples of the approach that gives the best results in EFL metaphor-based vocabulary acquisition.

Biljana Radosavljevi Novi Sad, Serbia mradosavljevic@[Link]

Facing the challenge of multimeaningfulness in business English

The aim of this presentation is to address the issue of multimeaningfulness in business English, i.e. highlight the phenomena of polysemy and homonymy causing problems to linguists, lexicographers and students of BE. The presenter will first explain the difference between polysemy and homonymy based on semantic criteria. Second, she will share her many years teaching experience in BE and focus on the importance of context awareness, as fundamental to enabling students to acquire business vocabulary skills. Third, the presenter will lead the audience through a carefully chosen list of BE terms and demonstrate a variety of meanings that a term can get in different contexts. The author will further reflect on teaching techniques to enhance the learning process (networking, brainstorming, negotiating, etc.) She hopes that her research will help students to acquire pragmatic vocabulary skills in an interactive and efficient manner.

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Selma Raljevi Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina [Link]@[Link]

The aesthetics of survivance in Gerald Vizenors Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57

The paper discusses Gerald Vizenors 2003 novel Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57 within the context of identity construction in post-World War II Japan and Native American community of the White Earth Reservation. Through an analysis of Vizenors kabuki meditation on survivance after nuclear devastation, the paper will explore the cross-cultural link between the Ainu, the indigenous natives of the island of northern Japan, and Anishinaabe, the Native American tribe to which the writer belongs. The aim of this paper is to focus on a sense of native presence over absence, victimry and nihility in both traditional and contemporary world of Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57.

Milica Savi Novi Sad, Serbia [Link]@[Link]

Will you...? Would you...? Could you...? Advanced EFL students metapragmatic awareness
With the recognition of the importance of pragmatic competence in L2 (Bachman 1990; Bachman & Palmer 1996; Alcn Soler 2000; Us-Juan & Martnez-Flor 2006), interlanguage pragmatics research has also gained ground. Most research to date has focused on the strategies learners employ when performing various speech acts, resulting in the unbalanced focus on the pragmalinguistic component in investigating pragmatic learning (Alcn Soler & Martnez-Flor 2008: 4). The qualitative research to be presented here, as part of a more comprehensive study employing a mixed-method research design, attempts to address both the pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic knowledge of 15 final year English Department students. The analysis of the data obtained through semistructured metapragmatic awareness interviews reveals which pragmalinguistic resources in English the participants are aware of, as well as which contextual factors their linguistic choices are influenced by. The analysis is followed by implications for teaching and teacher training.

Maxim Shadurski Edinburgh, United Kingdom [Link]@[Link]

Character and identity in Robert Hugh Bensons utopia

The Edwardian period in English literature gave voice to unique competing debates about national identity from the lines of Jingoism vs. Little Englandism, Catholicism vs. Anti-Catholicism, etc. This paper will aim to examine the protagonists features in Robert Hugh Bensons utopian novel The Dawn of All (1911) in relation to the politics of identity formation current in the period. In developing its argument, the paper will rely on recent academic works on national identity (Colls, Mandler, Kumar, etc.) as well as utopian studies (Jameson, Levitas, etc.). It will be contended that, alongside with the novels tangibly utopian semantics and the authors Catholic stance, the protagonist displays affinity with the mainstream liberal values of the national identity.

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Nadeda Silaki Belgrade, Serbia silaskin@[Link]

Climbing the corporate ladder or being stuck on the mummy track CAREER metaphors in English
The paper is set within the theoretical framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory as initiated by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and later modified to better accommodate metaphors that occur in authentic discourse (e.g. Semino 2008; Charteris-Black 2004), as well as that of Critical Discourse Analysis, whose main tenet is that discourse constructs the world from a particular perspective and that it is closely linked to cognition (Hart & Luke 2007). The main aim of the paper is to offer insight into the main metaphors used for the conceptualisation of CAREER in English. We classify and exemplify the CAREER metaphors, particularly emphasising the differences between the ways mens and womens careers are conceptualised in the culture determined by the English language, and pointing out that metaphors, due to their ability to be used as powerful persuasive devices, may have a decisive role in the structuring of womens place in todays society and in constraining womens career thinking to potentially damaging stereotypes.

Duan Stamenkovi Ni, Serbia dstamenkovic@[Link]

Verbs and prototype theory: state of the art and possibilities

The main aim of this paper is to investigate the possibilities of applying Prototype Theory to the categorization of English verbs. Throughout its development (Rosch 1975; Lakoff 1987; Taylor 1989), Prototype Theory has been mainly focused on nouns and adjectives, with very few excursions into the realms of the other parts of speech. The paper will include a short summary of the existing attempts to approach verbs from a prototypical perspective. It will try to find those semantic features of verbs that might be relevant to the process of categorization. This will be done by means of analysing three classes of verbs (as classified by Levin 1993) and finding their appropriate semantic features. The result of this analysis will be presented in three columns, showing how the verbs in question are graded within their categories.

Violeta Stojii Ni, Serbia vikis@[Link]

Contrastive view of Serbian and English collocations

By considering collocations as a subsystem of the lexical system of a language, a contrastive analysis of Serbian and English is to reveal the actual cases of presence or absence of correspondence in collocational domain. Although the analysis could not involve all realised/possible collocations in the two languages, as each lexeme implies at least one lexical combination with another, a selection of structurally and semantically comparable standard collocations from Serbian and English has demonstrated a twofold relation between them, i.e. divergent and convergent. Furthermore, research into selected corpora has indicated that there are collocations in both languages with no contrastive pair in the other language, thus suggesting a collocational gap.

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Ana arevi Kragujevac, Serbia [Link]@[Link]

Polysemy of the adjective good in contemporary linguistic models

This paper investigates polysemy of the adjective good within the contemporary linguistic theories, aiming to establish conditions under which this expression is used. The research is being conducted, exemplified by the sentences from a corpus and from everyday speech, to what extent linguistic models of generative semantics, cognitive semantics, and theory of relevance can describe this term, and where the exceptions can be traced, as well as pinpointing the reasons for them. The results of the research reveal that none of the abovementioned linguistic models is exhaustive and complete, in view of analysis and categorization which could demonstrate all the manifestations of this adjective, that is, polysemy as a complex linguistic phenomenon, cannot be illustrated by a single linguistic theory, without taking the adjectives communication usability into consideration.

Bojana obot Novi Sad, Serbia bojanasobot@[Link]

Individual approach in English language teaching

This paper is concerned with individual differences among students, the individual approach in language teaching, as well as one of highly significant aspects of differentiation among learners: the influence of hemispheric dominance on ones way of thinking and learning. The research is based on the findings that each person has a characteristic way of processing information depending on the dominant hemisphere. One group of students studied English using methods based exclusively on the principles of the left hemisphere (which is very common in education in general); the other group was taught through application of the individual approach, while the individual differences among these students were determined by their hemispheric dominance. It is expected that the students who are taught through application of the individual approach will have better results in acquiring language knowledge and skills.

Sanja otari Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina sanjasos@[Link]

Postmodernist formlessness as uncommitted commitment in Barthelmes and Reeds fiction

In contrast to critical observations that denied postmodernist literature any serious oppositional quality with reference to the late twentieth-century western culture (e.g. F. Jameson or T. Eagleton), and in line with a critical acknowledgement of its adversarial or dissident potential by a more sympathetic group of critics (e.g. L. Hutcheon, L. McCaffery, P. Maltby, or S. Trachtenberg), the fiction of Donald Barthelme and Ishmael Reed perfectly illustrates the ability of postmodernist literature to provide a convincing and poignant cultural critique without ever becoming a socio-politically engaged (and enraged) literature in a traditional, programmatically unequivocal sense. In this context, the paper interprets formal experimentation in Barthelmes and Reeds fiction as a significant aspect of a typically postmodernist stance of uncommitted commitment that enabled these authors to be simultaneously detached from and drawn into the wider social, political or ideological debate. The paper aims to show that both Barthelme and Reed, in operating with the pastiche, the collage, the inclusion of low culture forms, the absence of easily traceable plots, the avoidance of psychological depths in characterization and the deliberate dwelling on the surface, successfully foreground the problematic aspects of the late capitalist western culture and in so doing point at the inextricable connection between art and the world, text and context.

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Ingrida Tatolyt Vilnius, Lithuania ingridtato@[Link]

From a drop of water... Models of reasoning in speeches given by Lithuanian and British EU parliamentarians, and the possible impact of the model on interpreting
The presentation consists of an analysis of the models of reasoning chosen by Lithuanian, and British EU parliamentarians for their 1-2 minute speeches and reports given in plenary sessions. A rhetorical analysis of the structure of a speech is applied. The analysis deals with the choice of an inductive, deductive or free style model of reasoning, considering such factors as any rhetorical tradition inherited, the affiliation to a particular political party, the age and education of a speaker, the topic, the given time limit, the genre of a speech, and the overall purpose of the speech. The aim of the research is to compare the frequency of the particular models chosen by the British, and by the Lithuanian parliamentarians, to evaluate these choices in a cultural context, and to explore if the model chosen has an impact on the interpreting process.

Jos Carlos Tenreiro Prego Exeter, United Kingdom jct207@[Link]

The impact of English gothic fiction on nineteenth-century Spanish literature

My analysis focuses on the role that English literary tradition has played as key determinant in the consolidation of the Gothic genre in nineteenth-century Spain. I argue that far too little attention has been paid to Gothic manifestations within Spanish fiction, partly due to its exclusiveness for its being conceived as inherent to English and American studies. It is for this reason that I have focused my attention on late nineteenth century Spanish novelists and the way they incorporate typically British Gothic devices into their production so as to satisfy an aesthetic and ideological need. I maintain that Edmund Burkes contribution to the theorization of the Sublime proves to be satisfactory, not only to English Gothic fiction, but also to nineteenth century writers in Spain where, by this century, the Sublime was already a well-known and significant concept. But while there is no written evidence of Burkes immediate influence on Spanish literature, some Naturalist texts like Emilia Pardo Bazns reveal a great deal of Sublime iconography: the obscurity, the vastness, the cries of animals, the magnificence or feeling and pain. Similarly, Gothic fictions usually deal with the confrontation between the frameworks of mainstream society and the unfamiliar phenomena that lie outside it. And it is precisely this depiction that a number of Spanish writers had attempted to transmit, lyrically or more positivistically. For this presentation I have chosen some English canonical novels such as The Mysteries of Udolpho (1784), Frankenstein (1818), Northanger Abbey (1818) or Wuthering Heights (1847). These primary texts serve as a starting point where I analyse the treatment of typical English Gothic devices and the analogy they bear with late nineteenth-century Spanish fiction. Among other motifs, I focus on the representation of nature as locus horribilis, the symbolism of the journey as bridge that separates two different worlds, and the relationship between the Gothic and science. Taking into account the idea that psychoanalysis has revealed itself to be a new manifestation of Gothic fiction, I will offer Freudian readings of the texts mentioned above paying attention to the way the aesthetic psychologies of fear the Sublime and the Uncanny are represented.

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Marija Todorova Skopje, Macedonia todorova@[Link]

(Un)translatability of mythology in literature

In literature many of the names and events can be traced in some form to mythology. English mythology draws its roots predominantly from Norse and Celtic mythology, and like the conglomerate society which it represents, is one which has an entirely idiosyncratic nature of its own. Macedonian contemporary literature encloses evidence of great myths and to a large extent is determined by the myths that are typical for the Balkan region, including the Slavic mythology. All these alone create many challenges for literary translators. Further confusion has been added through translations of the names of mythical creatures, adding to the murky waters which surround mythical elements. As illustration I will compare and discuss solutions offered in Macedonian translations of English authors, especially Tolkiens works, and English translations of Macedonian authors, concentrating on Slavko Janevskis and Vlada Uroshevics novels. Finally, the paper should bring deeper insight into best translation strategies/practices when it comes to translating fantasy literature and mythological creatures.

Ivana Todorovi Belgrade, Serbia tdrvc_vn@[Link]

The other in Shakespeare and today

The starting point of this paper is the Lacanian distinction between the other and the Other, applied to the analysis of William Shakespeares play The Tempest. The author identifies examples of othering (Spivaks term) in the text, which help consolidate Prosperos position of the master (the colonial counterpart of the psychoanalytic Other) and Calibans position of the slave (the colonial counterpart of the psychoanalytic other). The second section of the paper focuses on James Camerons film Avatar, read as an allegory of an imperialist project. Parallels are drawn between the two works, especially concerning the psychological processes in the construction of otherness. The aim of the paper is to ascertain whether othering is a timeless tendency in human behavior and how it can be overcome.

Jagoda Topalov Novi Sad, Serbia [Link]@[Link]

Effects of strategic reading instruction on EFL students reading performance

The aim of the research reported in this paper is to investigate the effect of a strategic reading instruction framework based on the theoretical concepts put forth by Klingner and Vaughn (1996, 2000) on learners performance on reading assessment. The research was conducted with two parallel groups of EFL learners at B2 level studying at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad (1 experimental, 2 control) over the course of two months. The students in the experimental group had reading instruction following a structured strategic framework, whereas the control group had a more traditional teacher-led reading instruction following a course book. This research adopts a mixed-method design and types of data collected include a reading measure (pre-test and post-test) and researcher in-class observation. It is hypothesized that the experimental group will significantly outperform the control group on the post-test reading measure.

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Tiana Toi / Ivana Palibrk Kragujevac, Serbia; Kragujevac, Serbia tiana_tosic@[Link]; ivana_palibrk@[Link]

Girl talk: English in modern means of communication

The paper takes into account recent sociolinguistic gender studies as well as the widespread usage of English language in the speech of younger Serbian population in regard to the language of social networks, blogs and text messages. We emphasize the discourse of young females aged between 15 and 25 its tendency towards the nonstandard forms, yet preserving solidarity and the role of English in those. The aim is to present the distinguishing features of female discourse, primarily on lexical level, for the purpose of which qualitative research is going to be used. We expect to determine the extent and the structure of the borrowed linguistic inventory and clarify the cause of such a selection.

Ivana Trajanoska Skopje, Macedonia trajanoska@[Link]

Pointed roofs, a text-image

Working on the connection between the pictorial presence and the act of memory in Dorothy Richardsons Pilgrimage, I tried to prove that the act of memory, the primary force in this thirteen-volume novel, opens the text to the pictorial and leaves pictorial proofs onto its body. Using the typology scale of Lillian Louvel, I have traced down a substantial part of the effets tableaux, the picturesque views, the aesthetic arrangements, the pictorial descriptions, the tableaux vivants, the ekphrasis and various substitutes of the pictorial in Pointed Roof, the first of the thirteen volumes. In this paper, I would like to put an accent on one particular example of the pictorial presence in Pointed Roofs and that is the effet tableau referring to Edward Burn-Jones The Mirror of Venus since it also gives the opportunity to further explore one of the central themes in the novel, that is, the identification and acceptance of the gendered self.

Nataa Tuev Ni, Serbia tucev@[Link]

The Third Body and the politics of sex: Ian McEwans The Comfort of Strangers
The Third Body is the title of a poem by Robert Bly, implying the authors notion of a kind of a composite soul of two people involved in an intimate erotic relationship. Ideally, it should be a container in which their love grows, enabling them to transcend their separate ego-consciousness and contributing to each partners psychic integration and personal development. On the other hand, if the destructive subconscious urges of the two partners come to the fore, they may harm the third body or even completely destroy it. Blys metaphor corresponds to a physical image in McEwans novel The Comfort of Strangers, in which one of the characters, Colin, is literally victimized when a married couple, Robert and Caroline, project upon him their destructiveness and sadomasochistic obsessions. The paper discusses the inability of both couples in the novel (Colin and Mary, Robert and Caroline) to create and cherish the positive entity of the third body, searching for causes for this failure both in their individual psychological make-up and in the ghosts of the patriarchal dogma haunting McEwans narrative.

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Ljubica Vasi Kragujevac, Serbia vasic_ljubica@[Link]

The concept of family according to the transformation of ideological and mythic form in Sam Shepards play True West
Sam Shepards play True West illustrates an American family which reflects altered system of social values. Therefore, the paper focuses on the transformation of ideological and mythic pattern that characterizes the American West, through examination of themes of individualism, and at the same time it illustrates the cultural aspects of the identity of an entire family that depicts the specific social group of American nation. In this way, the paper shows the authors intention to delineate slowly disappearing national myth by employing postmodern theories of drama. Also, through the implicit use of elements of realistic theatre, the paper demonstrates that the rediscovery of American identity is, in fact, equivalent to the rediscovery of long lost mythic basis, relevant for ideological development.

Tijana Vasiljevi Stoki Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina stokic@[Link]

The effects of bilingual dictionary use and teacher feedback in translation tasks on EFL vocabulary development
This study attempts to answer the question how much new vocabulary can students learn and retain from translation tasks. In this study, EFL students are divided into the experimental and control group. There will be three sessions: the initial session, a rewrite with feedback session and dictionary use and a test session with no dictionary use nor teacher feedback. The control group will do the same translation tasks three times but without any teacher feedback. The aim of this paper is to examine the effects of bilingual dictionary use and teacher feedback in translation tasks on EFL vocabulary development. The experimental method will be used in this study. The expected results will show that both bilingual dictionary use and teacher feedback do produce positive results in terms of retention of previously unknown or partially known vocabulary.

Sonja Veselinovi Novi Sad, Serbia sonjecka@[Link]

Two anthologies of contemporary English poetry in the Serbian language

The aim of this research is to analyze the image of modern English poetry offered through the selections and translations in two capital anthologies in Serbian: Antologija savremene engleske poezije (An Anthology of Contemporary English Poetry), edited by Svetozar Brki and Miodrag Pavlovi (Belgrade, 1957; supplemented edition in 1975) and Antologija engleske poezije 1945-1990 (An Anthology of English Poetry 1945-1990), edited by Srba Mitrovi (Novi Sad, 1992). The 1960s started a new era of English-Serbian literary connections, since a generation of newly established poets developed an interest in the English culture. Significant reception of modern English poetry began with the first edition of An Anthology of Contemporary English Poetry. Nevertheless, between this book that marked the entire enthusiastic period, and the anthology of Srba Mitrovi, when it comes to individual poetry books, the number of translations of English authors remained relatively small. Concerning that dynamics of further translations, it seems obvious that these anthologies decisively designated the reception of modern English poetry in Serbian literature.

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Tijana Vesi Pavlovi Belgrade, Serbia [Link]@[Link]

Cleanliness is next to godliness clean and dirty metaphors in English and Serbian
The purpose of the current paper is to explore how the bodily experience of physical cleanliness is used in reasoning about abstract notions in English and Serbian. The focus of the presentation is on the adjectives and nouns in the two languages describing the state of cleanliness or its absence and the way they extend their meaning into a variety of abstract domains. Analysis is performed within the cognitive-linguistic approach to meaning, with the selected examples drawn from representative linguistic corpora of English and Serbian. Due to the primacy of this domain in ordinary experience, there is a large number of abstract domains structured by these concepts, which predominantly pertain to morality, ethics, virtue, sin, and sexuality. Conceptual mappings responsible for the extension of meanings of adjectives and nouns primarily denoting cleanliness are discussed in the concluding part, along with the contrasting of English and Serbian with respect to these.

Ivana Vlajkovi Ni, Serbia ivanavly@[Link]

How English influences Serbian at the grammatical level in Facebook communication

This paper deals with the contact between English and Serbian and how the former influences the latter at the grammatical level of Facebook communication. The communication on this site is informal and uncensored and hence provides an excellent insight into the hybridisation of Serbian under the influence of English. Furthermore, the grammatical level was chosen as the domain of language which is normally not affected by an indirect contact between two languages in order to show that the case of the English-Serbian contact is an atypical one. The linguistic elements in which the influence of English was found were counted, and the number was then expressed in percentages, in order to show the frequency of their occurrence. The aim of this analysis was to identify the influences of English on Serbian in Facebook communication and to give a conclusion concerning the possible direction in which the hybridisation of Serbian will continue.

Biljana Vlakovi Kragujevac, Serbia biljanavlaskovic@[Link]

Shavian critique of the John Bull and Cathleen Ni Houlihan affair

Conveniently titled after a cartoon character, John Bulls Other Island, a play by George Bernard Shaw, sneers at the legacy of colonialism, intolerance, and paternalism. The paper analyzes Shaws attempt to reconcile England, as a thesis, and Ireland, as an antithesis, in order to achieve a synthesis between the colonizer and the colonized. It answers questions such as: Is it possible to ever overcome the hostility caused by colonialism? How is humanity to avoid and disregard the most important feature of colonial discourse that Homi Bhaba wrote about: namely, its dependence on the concept of fixity in the ideological construction of otherness? Or, to use Pierre Bourdieus terms, how is one to stifle the symbolic and cultural violence which continues long after the colonizers have given the colony the right to Home Rule?

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Bojana Vujin Novi Sad, Serbia lolita@[Link]

The walrus was Alice: the influence of Lewis Carrolls Alice books on John Lennons lyrics
When it comes to scholarly research, both childrens literature and rock poetry have, in recent decades, been appropriated by the theorists of culture and literature and turned into a playground for innumerable analyses. This one will focus on the relationship between the two, using perhaps the most famous examples of both: Carrolls seminal Alice books and some of the lyrics by the worlds most popular band, The Beatles. The relationship between Carrolls and Lennons particular brands of nonsense will be explored, and an attempt made to arrive at the possible meaning(s) behind the two authors works.

Dragana Vukovi Vojnovi / Marija Niin Novi Sad, Serbia; Novi Sad, Serbia [Link]@[Link]; [Link]@[Link]

Would you care for a drink? polite questions and requests in the cross-cultural context of tourism industry
In addition to the main function of communication (information exchange), its social function is often emphasized, especially in a cross-cultural context such as tourism industry. Within this line of thought, it has also been shown that any type of communication includes certain degrees of politeness. The main focus of this paper is to establish key expressions regarding polite questions and requests in the tourism industry context and to determine students awareness of those expressions, as well as their attitudes towards degrees of politeness in English and Serbian. The study will present the results of a knowledge test and a questionnaire completed by university students of Tourism and Hospitality Management, followed by the discussion of the results and their implications for the English for Tourism and Hospitality classes at university level.

Sanja Vuleti abac, Serbia vuleticsanja01@[Link]

Cognitive abilities of pre-school children and readiness for foreign language acquisition
The level of cognitive abilities of pre-school children and speech development are the key factors in the process of early introduction of foreign language teaching. It has been established that L1 consolidates at the age of four to five which fact should be taken into consideration in the process of introducing foreign language activities. The paper also deals with other factors affecting successful L2 learning such as individual characteristics, learning styles, attention span, rate of forgetfulness and affective filter. Pre-school teachers carrying out the activities in English were interviewed to share their observations on childrens readiness to acquire foreign language. The results of the research (relating to cognitive level, speech development level, ability of conceptual understanding, correct L1 articulation) are expected to clarify the dilemma if there is the optimal age for beginning of foreign language learning in the classroom setting, i.e. if the earlier is the better.

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Isidora Wattles Novi Sad, Serbia iwattles@[Link]

Effective course related assessment techniques

The aim of this paper is to address the issue of adequate assessment of students knowledge with respect to the specific teaching goals, since the need for improving learning, teaching and assessment strategies in language learning is evident. Chosen assessment techniques will be presented both from theoretical and practical aspects. The techniques presented in the paper are used to assess the following: prior knowledge, analytical skills and critical thinking, synthesis skills and creative thinking, problem solving skills and application and performance. The application and efficiency of some of these techniques is illustrated, and students reactions to them are also presented, as evidence to the overall positive effects these techniques may have in the classroom.

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1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48.

Banevi Pejovi, Ivana; Serbia Bikicki, Nataa; Serbia Bilbija, Sneana; Bosnia and Herzegovina Bjelica, Maja; Serbia Blagojevi, Savka; Serbia Bogoeva Sedlar, Ljiljana; Serbia Borrell Carreras, Helena; United Kingdom Brankovi, Vesna; Bosnia and Herzegovina Bugarski, Ranko; Serbia Buka, Zlatko; Croatia Bukatarevi, Tomislav; Serbia Bs, va; Hungary Cerban, Mdlina; Romania Cvetkovi, Tanja; Serbia Czegldi, Sndor; Hungary Dimitrijevi Savi, Jovana; Serbia Dimitrijevi, Marta; Serbia Dimkovi Telebakovi, Gordana; Serbia Drobot, Irina-Ana; Romania ergovi Joksimovi, Zorica; Serbia orevi, Jasmina; Serbia ori Francuski, Biljana; Serbia urovi, Tatjana; Serbia Diho, Aida; Bosnia and Herzegovina Erakovi, Borislava; Serbia Filipovi Kovaevi, Sonja; Serbia Gajiin, Vesna; Serbia Gluac, Tatjana; Serbia Goodspeed, Andrew; Macedonia Gordi Petkovi, Vladislava; Serbia Halas, Ana; Serbia Halupka Reetar, Sabina; Serbia Ili, Nataa; Serbia Ivandeki, Ana; Serbia Izgarjan, Aleksandra; Serbia James, Allan; Austria Jankov, Sonja; Czech Republic Janjatovi, Vera; Serbia Jerkovi, Jelena; Serbia Jerotijevi, Danica; Serbia Jevri, Tamara; Serbia Jovievi, Jelena; Serbia Karanfilovi, Nataa; Serbia Kavgi, Aleksandar; Serbia Kesi, Smiljka; Serbia Koljevi, Svetozar; Serbia Kosti, Milena; Serbia Krimer Gaborovi, Sanja; Serbia

49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96.

Krombholc, Viktorija; Serbia Lali Krstin, Gordana; Serbia Lazarevi, Nina; Serbia Lazovi, Mihaela; Serbia Lazovi, Vesna; Serbia Lopii, Vesna; Serbia Luburi Cvijanovi, Arijana; Serbia Macura, Sergej; Serbia Mari, Aleksandra; Serbia Mari, Ivana; Serbia Markovi, Ljiljana; Serbia Markovi, Maja; Serbia Matek, Ljubica; Croatia McGrail Johnston, Claire; Ireland Menzildi, Davor; Serbia Mikluc, Valentina; Serbia Mili, Mira; Serbia Milivojevi, Nataa; Serbia Miloevi, Danica; Serbia Mii Ili, Biljana; Serbia Mudeka, Nina; Serbia Nedeljkovi, Aleksandar B.; Serbia Niin, Marija; Serbia Novakov, Predrag; Serbia Okii, Melisa; Bosnia and Herzegovina Osmankadi, Merima; Bosnia and Herzegovina Palibrk, Ivana; Serbia Pani, Nataa; Serbia Pani Kavgi, Olga; Serbia Paunovi, Tatjana; Serbia Perkov, Petra; Croatia Petkovi, Danijela; Serbia Petkovi, Rajko; Croatia Petrii, Gordana; Serbia Pilipovi, Vesna; Serbia Poljak Rehlicki, Jasna; Croatia Pri, Tvrtko; Serbia Prodanovi Stanki, Diana; Serbia Proi Santovac, Danijela; Serbia Radi Bojani, Biljana; Serbia Radosavljevi, Biljana; Serbia Raljevi, Selma; Bosnia and Herzegovina Savi, Milica; Serbia Shadurski, Maxim; United Kingdom Silaki, Nadeda; Serbia Stamenkovi, Duan; Serbia Stojii, Violeta; Serbia arevi, Ana; Serbia

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97. 98. 99. 100. 101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106.

obot, Bojana; Serbia otari, Sanja; Bosnia and Herzegovina Tatolyt, Ingrida; Lithuania Tenreiro Prego, Jos Carlos; United Kingdom Todorova, Marija; Macedonia Todorovi, Ivana; Serbia Topalov, Jagoda; Serbia Toi, Tiana; Serbia Trajanoska, Ivana; Macedonia Tuev, Nataa; Serbia

107. Vasi, Ljubica; Serbia 108. Vasiljevi Stoki, Tijana; Bosnia and Herzegovina 109. Veselinovi, Sonja; Serbia 110. Vesi Pavlovi, Tijana; Serbia 111. Vlajkovi, Ivana; Serbia 112. Vlakovi, Biljana; Serbia 113. Vujin, Bojana; Serbia 114. Vukovi Vojnovi, Dragana; Serbia 115. Vuleti, Sanja; Serbia 116. Wattles, Isidora; Serbia

Participants by Country:
Austria Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia Czech Republic Hungary Ireland Lithuania Macedonia Romania Serbia United Kingdom Total: 1 8 5 1 2 1 1 3 2 89 3 116

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ELALT Conference, Novi Sad, 19 March 2011: Manuscript Submission

A refereed selection of papers presented at ELALT will be published by the Department of English, Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad, as an electronic (pdf) book of proceedings, which will be provided with an ISBN number and will be freely downloadable from the Conferences website.

Papers will be selected strictly by their scientific merit, which includes the following: (a) originality of the topic, research and results presented, (b) strength of argumentation, (c) clarity of exposition, (d) good organization, and (e) good English.

Prior to submitting their papers, authors are strongly advised to recheck, or have checked, their text carefully for usage and spelling either British or American conventions should be used consistently throughout.

Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the following guidelines: Page format: A4 Margins: 2.54 cm / 1 in. Line spacing: 1.5 Font: Times New Roman Font size: 12 Paragraph alignment: left-aligned Pagination: top right-hand corner Length of the paper: between 8 and 16 pages Italics: for examples and for titles of books and journals Bold: for terms defined and for emphasis Obligatory elements: (1) Authors first name, last name bold; if more than one author, each name separated by a slash (2) Authors city, country normal; if more than one author, each set of names separated by a semicolon (3) Authors email address normal; if more than one author, each address separated by a semicolon (4) Title of the paper up to 20 words, including subtitle; centred, bold, preceded and followed by two blank lines (5) Abstract between 100 and 150 words, headed with the word Abstract. in bold; paragraph followed by a blank line (6) Key words between 5 and 10, headed with the words Key words: in bold; paragraph followed by a blank line (7) Body of the text divided into sections with headings numbered thus: 1.; headings centred, bold, preceded and followed by a blank line (8) References heading centred, bold, preceded and followed by a blank line; the list should include only the works quoted or cited, should be arranged alphabetically, by the (first) authors last name, and should be formatted as follows:

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BOOKS BY A SINGLE AUTHOR / EDITOR:

Mey, J. L. (2001). Pragmatics. An Introduction. 2nd edition. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. Mey, J. L. (ed.). (2009). Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics. 2nd edition. Oxford: Elsevier.

BOOKS BY TWO AUTHORS / EDITORS:

Brown, P. and Levinson, S. C. (1987). Politeness. Some Universals in Language Usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

BOOKS BY MORE THAN TWO AUTHORS / EDITORS:

Quirk, R., et al. (1985). A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London and New York: Longman.

PAPERS IN JOURNALS:

Haberland, H. and Mey, J. L. (1977). Editorial: Linguistics and Pragmatics. Journal of Pragmatics 1: 1-12.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS / PAPERS IN BOOKS OF PROCEEDINGS:

Peters, P. (2006). English Usage: Prescription and Description. In: B. Aarts and A. McMahon (eds.). The Handbook of English Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 759-780.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Beaugrande, R. A. de (2004). A New Introduction to the Study of Text and Discourse. Available at: [Link] Retrieved on: 30 August 2010.

ONLINE PAPERS:

Pullum, G. K. (2004). Ideology, Power, and Linguistic Theory. Available at: [Link] Retrieved on: 30 August 2010.

Manuscripts should be sent electronically, as email attachments in Microsoft Word for Windows .doc or .docx formats, to the Conferences email address: [Link]@[Link]. If special fonts or pictures are used, their files should be sent separately, with the manuscript file.

Deadline for the submission of manuscripts: 1 July 2011. Deadline for the notification of acceptance: 1 October 2011. Deadline for the submission of revised versions: 1 November 2011.

Expected time of publication of the ELALT e-book of proceedings: the end of 2011.