English Text Construction

Volume 2, Issue 1 (2009)

2009.  164 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Table of Contents
Articles
Meaning differences in the use of the null vs. the definite articles: The case of the seasons
Stefan Frazier and Lorena Llosa
1–17
‘I wouldn’t think you might agree’: (Inter)subjective uses of English modalised syntactic patterns
Marta Degani and Anna Belladelli
18–47
Positioning the reader: A study on the use of interactive textual patterns in English written newspaper editorials and articles of opinion
Isabel Alonso Belmonte
48–69
Power in politeness: A pragmatic study of the linguistic concept of politeness and change in social relations of power in Wole Soyinka’s The Beatification of Area Boy
Ray Nwabenu Chikogu
70–90
Character and the Career: Anthony Trollope’s Phineas Finn and the rhetoric of the Victorian State
Frederik Van Dam
91–110
Verbal conflicts in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Burney’s The Wanderer
Laure Blanchemain
111–120
Ideology in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2003)
Daria Tunca
121–131
“I” and the “Other” The relevance of Wittgenstein, Buber and Levinas for an understanding of AA’s Recovery Program in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
Petrus Van Ewijk
132–145
Re-membering the Clichés: Memory and Stereotypes in Baraka’s The Slave, Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play and Hansberry’s Les Blancs
Cindy Gabrielle
146–156
Review
Review of Murphy (2008): Shakespeare for the People: Working-Class Readers, 1800–1900
Reviewed by Kate Macdonald
157–159
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