EL&LE 2016 Conference Program

English Language & Literatures in English

Partium Christian University, Oradea, Romania, April 8, 2016
8.00- Registration, morning coffee
8.30 -10.30: 1st Sessions:

8.30-

A1. EFL, ESP, Bilingualism;

A1 Room
Chair: Granville Pillar
Mtys Bnhegyi & Judit Nagy (Kroli Gspr University, Budapest): School Contests as a Form of Cooperative
Learning through the Topic of the Canadian North

9.45-

va Forintos (University of Pannonia, Veszprm): Language Mixing in Written Discourse: Intentional code-mixing in
the Australian-Hungarian communitys newspaper

9.00-

Emese Boksay Pap (Etvs Lornd University, Budapest): Learning a second foreign language relying on the first
foreign language with the help of a Web 2.0 tool

9.15-

Johan Van Wijk (Driestar University for Teacher Education): What's wrong with our vocabulary teaching and learning

9.30-

Arjen De Korte (Driestar Educatief University): The Future of Grammar Instruction in Dutch Vocational L2
Classrooms

9.45-

Granville Pillar (University of Nyregyhza): Toward a Bilingual Framework: Exploiting the Intrinsic Complementary
Role of the Mother Tongue in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning

10.00
-

Enik Maior (Partium Christian University): ESP and Language Games

10.15
10.30
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10.30-11.00 Coffee Break

11.00-12.00: Opening welcome, A1 Room: Borbla Bks, Head of Department of English Language and Literature, PCU;
Enik Maior, Dean of Faculty of Letters, PCU;
Plenary Speech, A1 Room: Pter Szaffk, University of Debrecen, Hungary: Let's Look Back Without Anger.
Some Major Events That Shook the World of the Theatre in the 1950s
12.00-13.45 2nd Sessions
B1. Otherness, immigrant experiences in fiction;
A1 Room
Chair: Dan H. Popescu
12.00
-

Titus Pop (Partium Christian University): Multicultural identities in Nadine Gordimers fiction

12.15
-

Jillian Curr (University of Western Australia): Identity and belonging to the nation: The fiction of Kamila Shamsie

12.30
-

Ottilia Veres (Partium Christian University): The Myth of Herakles in J. M. Coetzee's Dusklands

12.45
-

Dana Radler (Bucharest University of Economic Studies): Folklore, Symbolism and Dream/Reality in the Fiction of
John McGahern

13.00
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Jlia Balzs (Pzmny Pter Catholic University): The Interrelation between Love and Death in Faulkners As I Lay
Dying, The Sound and the Fury and in McCarthys Wake for Susan

13.15
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Otilia Hercut ("Ady Endre" Highschool, Oradea): Thorns: Symbol and Representation

13.30

Dan H. Popescu (Partium Christian University): Britishness & Otherness in Gerald Durrells The Corfu Trilogy
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13.45

13.45-15.00 Lunch Break

15.00-16.45 3rd Sessions
C1. Linguistics, Language, Meaning;
A1 Room
Chair: Gyula Dvid
15.00
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Judit Nagy (University of Szeged): Features of native and non-native spontaneous speech presenting new information

15.15
-

Gyula Dvid (Kroli Gspr University, Budapest): Metaphor, Concept and Idiomaticity

15.30
-

Csaba Csides (Kroli Gspr University, Budapest): Stress imposing and stress neutral suffixes in English

15.45
-

Roland Szab (Partium Christian University): How Stand-up Comedians Offend the Audience and Get Away with It.

16.00
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Andrea Csillag (Reformed Theological University, Debrecen): The language of sadness: metaphors and metonymies

16.15
-

Luminita Todea
(Technical University of Cluj Napoca): Insights into ESP writing activities

16.30
16.45

16.45-17.00 Coffee Break

17.00-18.00 Plenary Speech, A1 Room: George Volceanov, Spiru Haret University, Bucharest: Shakespeare 400 6

18.00-19.30. 4th Sessions

D1. American Culture, Immigrant fiction;
A1 Room
Chair: Pter Gal-Szab
18.00
-

Pter Gal-Szab (Debrecen Reformed Theological University): African American Religio-Cultural Projection: A
Framework

18.15
-

Popua Mihaela (West University of Timioara): Hyphenated Identity in Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah

18.30
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Tudor Proteasa (Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara): The idea of belonging to a community: The image of the
Chinese immigrant and its evolution in the American society

18.45
-

Ergn Baylan (anakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey): Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and The Tyranny of
Majority

19.00
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Delia-Maria Radu (University of Oradea): Coming from Elsewhere: Immigrant Experiences in Fiction

19.15
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19.30 Dinner, Reception

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