2008 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

CULTURE, LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

ACROSS BORDER REGIONS

KOŠICE, 28-29 April 2008

PROGRAMME

REGISTRATION OF CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS:

Sunday 27 April: 17.00 – 22.00 – University Halls of Residence (Popradská, Jedlíkova)

Monday 28 April: 08.00 – 09.00 - Conference venue, Petzvalova 4

Monday – 28th April, 2008:

Conference Venue: Department of British and US Studies, Faculty of Arts, P.J.ŠafárikUniversity, Petzvalova 4, Košice

8.00–9.00 REGISTRATION OF CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

9.00Opening

9.30-10.30 Plenary session

Anna Lubecka: "To live in dignity" - a Challenge for the Multicultural World

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.30Morning session

Literary studies section - Chair: Wladyslaw Witalisz

  1. Nieves Pascual: Across Border Regions/Across Body Borders
  2. Péter Dolmányos: “But in what country have we been?” Observations of the Border in Contemporary Irish Poetry
  3. Tibor Tóth: Cultural Identity, Borders and Globalisation

Linguistic study section - Chair: Alicja Witalisz

1.Eva Gáboríková: Legal Language Necessary for Each Eurocitizen Crossing Borders and Professional Fields

2.Barbara Mitríková: Expressing Negation in Legal English

3.Ildikó Dósa: Accounting Across Borders

Cultural studies section - Chair: Haluk Ucel

  1. Gerard McCann: The Policy Context of Citizenship and the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty
  2. Clare Thake Vassallo: The Role of Translation in Malta’s Expanding Linguistic and Cultural Landscape.
  3. Fritz König: The GDR, or the Antipode of Schengen

12.30-14.00 Lunch break

14.00-15.301st afternoon session

Literary studies section - Chair: Stanislav Kolář

  1. Grzegorz Cebrat: In the Western Eyes: the Image of Eastern Europeans in Florence Farmborough’s Diary from the Great War
  2. Fathi Neifar: Forms of Romanticism and Culture Shock in the Works of the Lebanese Poets in Exile
  3. Dorota Rygiel: ‘I am an Englishman born and bred, almost’: Belonging and Identity in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia

Linguistic study section - Chair: Miroslav Černý

  1. Pavol Štekauer, Renáta Gregová, Zuzana Kolaříková, Lívia Körtvélyessy, Renáta Panocová: On Phonetic Iconicity in Evaluative Morphology of Slavonic Languages
  2. Lívia Körtvélyessy: The Sociolinguistic Factor of the Language Background in Research Realization
  3. Stanislav J. Kavka: How to Approximate the Ideal of ‘Idiomatic’ English?

Cultural studies section - Chair: Gerard McCann

  1. Keith Hughes: Is the Globalization of American Culture Truly “American”?
  2. Myroslava Fabian: Language and Culture Relationship in the Context of Globalization
  3. Aniela Rozanska: Silesian Home Language and its Role in Youth Public Life in Teschen Region

15.30-16.00 Coffee break

16.00-17.302nd afternoon session

Literary studies section - Chair: Fritz König

  1. Hulya Tafli: A Comparative Study of the Tales in Kathasaritsagara by Somadeva and Masnavi(Mathnawi) by Mevlana
  2. Zuzana Luckayová: Doing ‘Good’, Maintaining Dignity: the Effects of Apartheid on Ethical Choices Studied via Contemporary South African Fiction
  3. Jaroslav Kušnír: Language, Reality, and Popular Culture in David Foster Wallace's "The Suffering Channel" and "Good Old Neon" (2005)

Linguistic study section - Chair: Stanislav Kavka

  1. Michael Bilynsky: A Diachronic View on Synonymous Verbs and Deverbatives in English: Cross-cultural Interaction and Borrowability
  2. Alicja Witalisz: Words know no borders 2: True and False Internationalisms
  3. Miroslav Černý: Language Loss and Language Revitalization: aLakota Perspective

Cultural studies section - Chair: Maria Traum

1.Monika Kowalonek: Warum lernen Erwachsene in der Grenzregion Deutschland-Polen die Nachbarsprache Polnisch?

2.Krystyna Mihulka: Das gegenseitige Wahrnehmen in Grenzgebieten am deutsch-polnischen Beispiel

3.Barbara Tiefenbacher: Geistige Barrieren der tschechischen Mehrheitsbevolkerung und deren Auswirkung auf die Verwendung des Romanes

18.30-19.30 Guided tour of Košice

19.30 Welcoming Dinner for all Conference participants and their accompanying persons at Best Western TeleDom Hotel, 27 Timonova street

Tuesday – 29th April, 2008:

9.00-10.00 Plenary session

Haluk Ucel: EU, Nationalism and the Reconstruction ofIdentities in Turkey

François Poirier: Wading or sailing through watery borders: cross-Channel political cultures

10.00-10.30 Coffee break

Literary studies section - Chair: Nieves Pascual

  1. Jack Lala: As Long as the Grass Grows
  2. Dorota Mihułka: Crossing Identity Borders in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior
  3. Petr Kopecký: Where the West Meets the East: California’s (Inter)cultural Experience

Linguistic study section - Chair: Michael Bilynsky

  1. A. Böhmerová: Cross-Linguistic Word-Formative Interference Influence of English on Neologisms in Slovak
  2. Ľudmila Petriková & Hedviga Semanová: Global Language – One Language for One World?
  3. Katarína Szabová: Global Language – a Vision or Reality?

Cultural studies section - Chair: Slávka Tomaščíková

1.Maria Traum: Identification of Changes in Language When Using English for Presentations

2.Eva Kaščáková: Bridging the Borders with Social Software

3.Helena Petruňová: The Benefits of Having Good “false friends“

12.00-13.30 Lunch break

13.30-15.01st afternoon session

Literary studies section - Chair: Jack Lala

1. Viktória Sádová: Custom-duty: American Drama Crossing the Borders

  1. Zuzana Buráková: Illuminating Power of Humor
  2. Stanislav Kolář: How to View Daffodils: Cultural Borders in Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy

Linguistic study section - Chair: Pavel Stekauer

  1. Markéta Johnová: Gendered Talk: Politeness in Chatroom
  2. Slávka Tomaščíková: Narrative as an Element Crossing Boundaries between Information and Entertainment within Television News Discourse
  3. Jitka Vlčková: Personal Advertisements as a Mirror of Societal Standards?

Cultural studies section - Chair: Clare Thake Vassallo

1.Piotr Romanowski: Culture - an Invisible Dimension in Communication across Cultural Borders

2.Dagmar Blight: Intercultural Competence or When in Rome Do as the Romans Do

3.Alica Petrasová & Jozef Liba: Teaching and Learning as a Multicultural Communication

15.30-17.30 2nd afternoon session

Literary studies section - Chair: Wladyslaw Witalisz

  1. Janka Kaščáková: Katherine Mansfield’s Disturbing the Universe
  2. Katarína Labudová: Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride. Zenia Crosses Boundaries (Again)

3. Oliver Rácz Jr, Sebastian Kis, Katarína Ráczová-Lokšová, Katarina Loksa-Miechowka:

Oliver Racz – an Unforgetable Storyteller and Educator from Košice

Linguistic study section - Chair: Myroslava Fabian

  1. Kazimierz Sikora: Informal Comparisons Viewed by a Linguist
  2. Leokadia Styrcz-Przebinda: Equivalence of the Verbs "zajechac, przyjechac, dojechac" in Polish and Russian
  3. Jaroslav Marcin: (Close) Encounters of a Religious Kind

Cultural studies section - Chair: Anna Lubiecka

1.Eva Henčeková: The Foreign Language and Intercultural Competence Teacher

2.Anthony Hall: Chaos and Coincidence in Language Learning

3.Janusz Arabski: Neuroanatomical Perspective of Age in L2 Acquisition

4.Anatol Szewel: Metaphoricity as a Means in Teaching English and Intercultural Communication

17.30 Closing