Discourses of Globalization

Съставители: Лиляна Грозданова, Мария Пипева. Selected papers of teh 13th International Conference of the Bulgarian Society for British Studies - November 7-9th 2008, Sofia.
The volume examines the current discourses of globalization from multiple perspectives, coming from such diverse fields of scholarship as Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Education, Literary theory and criticism, and Translation studies.

Сборникът съдържа текстове, които са ориентирани в следните теоретични полета: лингвистика, културни изследвания, образование, литературна теория и критика, теория на превода. Изданието демонстрира активния ангажимент на международната академична общност с многообразните теоретични и практически проблеми, свързани с процеса на глобализацията, който бързо променя съвременните реалности и тяхното възприемане.

Foreword
Bistra Andreeva, Snezhina Dimitrova, William J. Barry Production of Phrasal Prominence in English and Bulgarian
Nadezhda Atanassova Searching for the European Discourse
Galina Avramova Myth and Meaning in the Postmodern World: A Glimpse at Timothy Findley`s Not Wanted on the Voyage
Alexandra Bagasheva The Globalizing Discourse(s) of Linguistics in the 21st Century
Zelma Catalan - The War of the Fictional Worlds, Or Why Do Aliens and Predators Have to Fight Each Other?
Gabriela Chefneux - Interpersonal Communication in Institutional Setting: An analysis from the Interpersonal Function Language Perspective
Desislava Cheshmedzhieva - Cultural Oppression of the Indigenous White Group: Examples from British and Bulgarian Nationalistic Press
Liliana Coposescu - Discourse Analysis of Communication in International Companies
Madeleine Danova - Globalization and the Invention of Localities in Timothy Findley`s Pilgrim
Maria Demace, Makrina Zafiri - Teaching English and Interculturalism in Greek Schools
Geoffrey Gray - Constructing Reality in Palestinian Discourse: the Strategic Function of Concessives
Zhivko Hristov - A Translator`s View on English Language Presentation of Bulgarian Cultural Heritage (Based on Texts from Museums of History)
Roumi Ilieva - International Education as Response to Discourses of Globalization: the Case Study of an MEd TESOL Program in a Canadian University
Aleksandra Matulevvska - Globalization of Languages for Special Purposes. Methods of Expressing Deontic Modality in Polish and English Legal Texts
Rositsa Ishpekova - Metaphorical Motivation of Phraseological Units and Idioms with Ear in English and Bulgarian.
Ludmilla Miteva - In, along, above and beyond (Or, back to Alice through Dorothea Tanning`s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik).
Ralitsa Muharska - A Nomadic Femininity in the First Era of Globalization: Djuna Barnes in and out of Europe
Francis D. O`Relly - The English Machine: Inefficiencies of a Globalized Conference Language
Vladimir Phillipov - The British School of Intonation - Old Routes Turning Into New Vistas.
Maciej Rataj - British English as a Dialect Faced with Globalisation.
Irma Ratiani - Comparative Literary Criticism in the Context of Globalization
Olga Sidorova - Timothy Mo`s Early Novels: Global, English, Chinese?
Emilia Slavova - Communication Skills: The New Social Currency
Rumyana Todorova - Advertising as a Transcultural and Transnational Phenomenon
Diana Yankova, Andrei Andreev - Cross-Cultural Identity: the Canadian Experience