W PWSZ dyskutują po angielsku

Dzisiaj o godzinie 10.30 oficjalnie otwarto konferencję "Margins and peripheries" zorganizowaną przez Instytut Neofilologii PWSZ w Raciborzu. W ramach międzynarodowego spotkania swoje przemyślenia prezentują przedstawiciele naukowych ośrodków z Polski i z Czech.

Zainteresowani podjętą tematyką mogą pogłębić różne zagadnienia, przychodząc posłuchać prezentacji przygotowanych przez badaczy. Jedyny warunek uczestnictwa w konferencji to znajomość języka angielskiego, bowiem wszystkie wystąpienia przedstawiane są za jego pomocą.

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MARGINS AND PERIPHERIES CONFERENCE

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

Friday 23rd September 2011

09.30 – 10.30 Registration
10.30 Official Opening (Room B 202)
11.00-11.45 Plenary session (Room B 202):
Renáta Tomášková PhD (University of Ostrava; Czech Republic): “Frequently asked questions: On the Margin of Genres between Centre and Periphery.”
11.45 – 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 – 13.30 Panel Session 1

Room B 211 (Linguistics)
CHAIR: Joanna Bielewicz-Kunc
12.00-12.30
1. Miroslav Černý (University of Ostrava; Czech Republic):
“The status of English in present-day Malaysia: center or periphery?”
12.30-13.00
2. Lenka Sedlarova (University of Ostrava; Czech Republic):
“Will English become one of the lingua francas in Georgia?”
13.00-13.30
3. Teresa Maria Wlosowicz:
“The Processing of Marked Structures and Meanings in Third or Additional Language Acquisition.”

Room B 202 (Literature & Culture)
CHAIR: Joanna Skolik
12.00-12.30
1. Tomasz Gornat (Opole University; Poland):
 “Austin Clarke and the Aisling Tradition”
12.30-13.00
2. Rachael Sumner (PWSZ Racibórz; Poland):
“Writing from the Margins of Europe: The Application of Postcolonial Theory to the Works of W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge and James Joyce.”
13.00-13.30
3. Jakub Grzegorzek (Opole University; Poland):
“Holy Women in a Secular Culture: St. Mary MacKillop and St. Joan of Arc.”

13.30 – 15.00         Lunch
15.00 – 16.30         Panel Session 2 

Room B 211 (Linguistics)
CHAIR: Lenka Sedlarova
15.00-15.30
1.  Gabriela Zapletalová (University of Ostrava, Czech Republic):
“Speaker-audience relationships in conference presentations: the case of Czech and Polish speakers presenting in English.”
15.30-16.00
2.  Christopher Hopkinson (University of Ostrava, Czech Republic):
“Central vs. peripheral tendencies in constructing discourse identities: a contrastive study of promotional discourse.”
16.00-16.30
3. Joanna Bielewicz-Kunc (PWSZ Racibórz, Poland):
“What makes a real compliment?”

Room B 202 (Literature & Culture)
CHAIR: Tomasz Gornat
15.00-15.30
1.  Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland):
“To follow the dream and again to follow the dream: Don Quixote, Almayer and Conrad as Multiple Reflections of the Dreamer.”
15.30-16.00
2. Joanna Skolik (Opole University, Poland):
“Margines and peripheries in Conrad’s life and letters.”
16.00-16.30
3.  Daniel Vogel (PWSZ Racibórz, Poland):
“The Peripheries of the Empire: Stanley’s triumph and Conrad’s nightmare.
Images of Africa in the 19th century Europe.”

16.30 – 16.45          Coffee break
16.45 – 18.15          Panel Session 3 

Room B 211 (Linguistics)
CHAIR: Monika Porwoł
16.45-17.15
1. Stanislav Kavka (University of Ostrava; Czech Republic):
“Idiomatic expressions and context (A couple of introductory psycholinguistic notes.)”
17.15-17.45
2. Szymon Domański (University of Ostrava; Czech Republic):
“The Code of Music: Expressing Meanings Through Musical-Rhetorical Figures.”
17.45-18.15
3. Justyna Jarska (Opole University; Poland):
“The conceptualiser’s role in establishing the deictic and epistemic dimension
 in the English tensed forms.”

Room B 202 (Literature & Culture)
CHAIR: Patrycja Nosiadek
16.45-17.15
1. Ksenia Olkusz (PWSZ Racibórz; Poland):
“Beyond the limits of sanity: the motif of madness in horror fiction.”
17.15-17.45
2. Jarosław Polak (Opole University; Poland):
“Centering Marginal Spaces in Don DeLillo’s The Names – an Absence as the Source of Meaning.”
17.45-18.15
3. Andrzej Widota (PWSZ Racibórz; Poland):
“The Concept of Boundary in Andy Warhol’s Linguistic Picture of the World.”

19.00         Dinner

End of day one

Saturday 24th September 2011

10.15 – 11.00    Plenary session (Room B 202): Prof. dr hab. Ryszard Wolny (Opole University; Poland): "Mapping Borders"
11.00 – 11.15        Coffee break
11.15 – 12.45        Panel Session 1

Room B 211 (Linguistics)
CHAIR: Miroslav Černý
11.15-11.45
1. Monika Porwoł (PWSZ Racibórz; Poland):
“A taxonomy of clichés as a peripheral notion in linguistics.”
11.45-12.15
2. Jacek Molęda (PWSZ Racibórz; Poland):
“The notion of ‘highly competent bilingual speaker’ in the process of language borrowing: a crucial concept or a marginal phenomenon?”
12.15-12.45
3. Zbigniew Tomala (PWSZ Racibórz; Poland):
“The Concept of Junction.”

Room B 202 (Literature & Culture)
CHAIR: Ryszard Wolny
11.15-11.45
1.  Aleksandra Lubczyńska (Opole University, Poland):
“Galaxy of Marginal Identities – about Heterotopic Space in John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus”
11.45-12.15
2. Patrycja Nosiadek (PWSZ Racibórz; Poland):
“Never at home – strategies of building bidirectional identity of Polish immigrants in the USA as seen in autobiographical texts by Marian Marzyński and Richard Pipes.”
12.15-12.45
3. Anna Bysiecka-Maciaszek (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland): “The figure of (a) double in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s fiction”

13.00 – 14.00        Dinner
14.00            Closing remarks