Functional plurality of language in contextualised discourse: Eighth Brno Conference on Linguistics Studies in English. Conference Proceedings. Brno, 12-13 September 2019

The volume presents eleven articles written by participants of the Eighth Brno Conference on Linguistics Studies in English held in September 2019. The papers (including two plenary speeches delivered by Prof. Julia Hüttner from University of Vienna, and Assoc. Prof. Markéta Malá from Charles University, Prague) offer a range of linguistic topics, covering media discourse, learner discourse (e.g. CLIL), literary genre, language of advertising, and the interdisciplinary approach to language and international relations, to name just a few.

Intro -- CONTENT -- Introduction -- Attitudes toward the influx of Anglicisms in the Georgian language -- Zhuzhuna Gumbaridze -- Comparative analyses of skincare product advertisements in Georgian and English -- Zeinab Gvarishvili -- The concept of power in computer-mediated communication -- Šárka Hastrdlová -- Mitigated request speech acts in learner discourse -- Petra Huschová -- Disciplinary language at school: Sites of integration in content-and-language-integrated learning (CLIL) -- Julia Hüttner Speech acts of request and apology realised by Czech students of English as a foreign language: Selected findings of a pilot study -- Marie Lahodová Vališová -- Women in love against the underworld: "Female savior" scenario in English, Russian and Turkish folklore narratives -- Evgeniia Lapina -- English and Czech children's literature: A contrastive corpus-driven phraseological approach -- Markéta Malá -- Does genre influence the choice of evaluative lexicogrammatical patterns in British online newspaper discourse? -- Petra Peldová Modal verbs in English essays written by Czech secondary-school students -- Věra Sládková -- Language and international relations: Linguistic support for other academic disciplines -- Piotr Twardzisz.