INTRODUCTION // Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova and Renata Povolná : The meaning of meaning // CHAPTER 1 ACADEMIC DISCOURSE // Vladimíra Ježdíková : Contrastive and resultive conjuncts in English academic prose // Zuzana Kozáčiková : The use of non-finite clauses in written academic discourse // Martina Malášková : Hedging devices in literary criticism research articles // Melanie Marcinkowski : Modality in academic discourse: Meaning and use of epistemic verbs in research articles // Radek Vogel : Lexical cohesion in popular vs. theoretical scientific texts // CHAPTER 2 FICTIONAL DISCOURSE // Jolana Kaštovská : On the textual realization and interpretation of lists in contemporary prose text: The case of Simon Mawer’s The Glass Room // Renata Šimůnková : Modal expressions of necessity and their non-explicit counterparts // CHAPTER 3 LEARNER DISCOURSE // Reima Al-Jarf : Effect of background knowledge on auditory comprehension in interpreting courses // Lenka Slunéčková : ESP students and the mysteries of English word order // Makrina Zafiri : Bridging the gap between reading, writing, listening and speaking skills in tertiary education: The case of the students of architecture at the University of Thessaly in Greece // CHAPTER 4 LEGAL DISCOURSE // Monika Gyuró : Coherence in court arguments // Magdalena Szczyrbak : Concessive schemata injudicial argumentation: A dialogue in a monologue? // CHAPTER 5 MEDIA DISCOURSE // Jaromír Haupt : Palpated, phonendoscoped, x-rayed and tomographed: The structure of science news in good shape // Vladislav Smolka : Word-order as a means of resolving ambiguity // Zuzana Urbanová : Faithfulness/Verbatim reproduction in direct reported forms: An overview // Věra Zouharová : Personal and preferred partner characteristics in personal advertisements: With regard to appearance //
CHAPTER 6 POLITICAL DISCOURSE // Jana Adámková : Vagueness in British political interviews // Jana Svobodová : Threat perception in the speeches of G. W. Bush and B. Obama: A comparison // CHAPTER 7 SPONTANEOUS AND PREPARED SPOKEN DISCOURSE // Jana Svarová : On the structure and use of compliments in present-day English // Petra Zmrzlá : Now as a discourse marker