English Text Construction

Volume 2, Issue 1 (2009)

2009. 164 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.2.1

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

Subjects

Linguistics

Applied linguistics

English linguistics

Literature & Literary Studies

English literature & literary studies

Theoretical literature & literary studies