Programme

3rd Nitra Conference [May 10, 2024

[8:00 - 8:55] registration

[8:55] to [9:00]

conference room, 119

Conference Opening

prof. Gabriela Miššíková, PhD.

[9:00] to [9:50]

conference room, 119

[Plenary session: Methodology & Linguistics]

[Speech entrainment in task-oriented dialogues with autistic and neurotypical children]

linguistic section: conference room, 119

literary section: canteen

[9:50] to [10:20]

[Examining the challenges and opportunities of South Africa's higher education Act (2020) in the promotion of indigenous languages]

Talent Mudenda [ONLINE] 

[Literature as a Way to Explore Nations: Hawthorne and Poe]

Lenka Pospíšilová [ONLINE] 

[10:20] to [10:50]

[Apology Language in Crisis Management Strategies: Case Study of the Dieselgate Scandal]

Ana-Maria Oprea [ONLINE] 

[Space and /pleɪs/: a mixed-method study of two 1680s plays]

Avantika Pokhriyal, Dolores Fors [ONLINE] 

[10:50] to [11:00]

[coffee break]

linguistic section: conference room, 119

literary section: canteen

[11:00] to [11:30]

[Conceptual Metaphors of Healthy Habits in Romanian and English Proverbs – A Comparative Approach]

Gabriela Corina Santa [ONLINE] 

[Visions of Cosmic Horror and Insignificance: Interpretation of H. P. Lovecraft’s Short Stories and Philosophy in Horror-themed Video Games]

Laura Škrobánková 

[11:30] to [12:00]

[Use of must and have to in American newspapers, 1930–2009]

Nazmus Saqueb Kathon [ONLINE] 

[Parallels Between Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the Literary Works of Jane Austen and Nineteenth-Century Slovak Women Writers]

Natália Kližanová 

[12:00] to [12:30]

[War metaphors in political discourse: A case-study of Barack Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s figurative language]

Cristina Kallai [ONLINE] 

[How to Befriend a Dragon: Depiction of Female Characters in Damsel]

Alena Gašparovičová 

[12:30] to [13:00]

[Conceptual metaphors of womanhood in The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood]

Diana Alexandra Avram (Șandru) [ONLINE] 

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[13:00] to [14:00]

[lunch break]

(lunch is not provided)

[14:00] to [14:50]

conference room, 119

[Plenary session: Literature]

[Reimagining the Wife of Bath: Intersections of Suburbanization, Gender, Power, and Identity in the Works by Geoffrey Chaucer, Jean Binta Breeze, Zadie Smith, and Patience Agbabi] 

doc. Mgr. Pavlína Flajšarová, PhD.


linguistic section: conference room, 119

literary section: canteen

[14:50] to [15:20]

[Metaphors in medical communication: Illusion of shared experience]

Anna Shkotina 

[Technology and Control from Dystopian Literature to the Present Day]

Francisc Horvath 

[15:20] to [15:50]

[Phraseology in L2 Vietnamese English Learner and L1 English Discourse: A Contrastive Study]

Lê Ngọc Quỳnh Như 

[Images and representations of the United States in the paratexts of Hungarian editions of literary works by American authors 1949-1953]

Ádám László Kiss 

[15:50] to [16:20]

[‘Language-washing’ – the role, position, and function of English in commercial signage in the local linguistic landscape]

Jonathan Eddy [ONLINE] 

[Upside Down and Everywhere Between: Love, Power Play, and Unfulfilled Expectations in Angela Carter's Fireworks]

Barbora Kotucz 

[16:20] to [16:50]

[Towards Inclusive Understandings: Analysing Czech Autism Organizations' Discourse]

Veronika Vargová 

[On film and photography: writers’ voices in discipline-specific academic discourse]

Hana Atcheson 

[16:50] to [17:00] 

conference room, 119

Conference Closing

prof. Gabriela Miššíková, PhD.