Conference Programme

Conference Programme

May 6

09:00

09:30

Registration and Welcome Coffee

➡️ A8

09:30

10:00

Opening Ceremony

  • Vice-Dean for Studies Assoc. Prof. Dr Gintarė Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė
  • ARKSI Institute Director Prof. Dr Jolanta Šinkūnienė
  • English Studies Committee Chair Dr Linara Bartkuvienė

➡️ K. Donelaitis

10:00

11:00

Keynote address!

  • Prof. Dr Ruth Breeze Researching Emotion in Discourse

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11:00

11:20

  • Viktorija Malikova Identity Construction in the U.S. News Media Discourse: Portrayal of Social Actors after the Overturn of Roe v. Wade

➡️ A7

11:20

11:40

  • Augustinas Mėlinskas Stance and Engagement in 3MT Presentations

11:40

12:00

  • Benas Venckaitis Clitics in Celtic Languages in Typological Perspective

12:00

12:20

  • Mažena Vaskan Stance towards Refugees and Migrants in British and Polish Media: A Multimodal Analysis

12:20

12:40

  • Karolina Petraškaitė Translation of Genre-Specific Issues in Victoria Hislop’s Those Who Are Loved: Introduction

12:40

13:00

  • Karolis Zeniauskas “How do you mean, Mr Cotter?”: A Stylistic Analysis of Narrative Gaps in James Joyce's Dubliners

13:00

14:00

Lunch break

14:00

14:20

  • Justė Kleivaitė Social Archetypes and Consumer Identity in Vilnius Street Advertising

➡️ A7

14:20

14:40

  • Marija Arizanoska The effect of explicit instruction of meta-discourse markers on EFL students' writing performance

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14:40

15:00

  • Martynas Žaronaitis Metaphoricity of Corruption in Public Institutional Discourse: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

15:00

15:20

Coffee break

➡️ A8

15:20

15:40

  • Kristīna Korneliusa Subjectivity in English-Language Texts Generated by ChatGPT: A Corpus Linguistics Approach

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➡️ A7

15:40

16:00

  • Aistė Brazdžiūnaitė “Life is soup I am fork” – discourse analyses of trach cat and trach panda memes

16:00

16:20

  • Boris Simonovski The Historical and Mythical Discourse in Seamus Heaney’s Bog Poems: The Mother Goddess Archetype and Heaney’s Ireland

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17:00

18:00

  • Panel discussion Applicability of English Studies questions:
    1. With the career changes driven by robotisation, how would you define the role of English Studies today?
    2. What is the role of interdisciplinary connections in modern career landscape, and how is it applicable for English Studies?
    3. How does the study of literature deepen our understanding of different cultures and societies?
  • Panellists: Mark Pass, Emily J. Higgs, Assoc. Prof. Dr Davide Castiglione, Assist. Prof. Dr Ovidiu Ivancu

➡️ Restaurant Grey

May 7

09:00

10:00

  • Workshop 1. Assoc. Prof. Dr Rita Juknevičienė Exploring the BNC2014 on LancsBox X: New Opportunities for Research

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➡️ K3

10:00

11:00

  • Workshop 2. Dr Kotryna Garanašvili Applied Translation

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➡️ K. Donelaitis

11:00

11:20

Coffee break 

➡️ A8

11:20

11:40

  • Deimantė Kolodzeiskytė Gender Stereotyping: A Comparative Analysis of Linguistic Patterns in Targeted and Untargeted Perfume Advertisements

➡️ A7


 

11:40

12:00

  • Laura Gage The ‘New’ New Zealand English: An Intergenerational Comparative Analysis of Te Reo Māori Loanwords and Pronunciation

12:00

12:20

  • Gabija Žukauskaitė Political Leadership Style in Times of Crisis: Critical Discourse Analysis of Vilnius NATO Summit

12:20

12:40

  • Gabriel Moore Code-switching between English and Lithuanian by Lithuanian-speaking students studying philology at the University of Vilnius

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12:40

13:00

  • Eva Alcantara Gamero Nomadic Identity and Memory in Proust’s Madeleine in “Manual of Exile”

13:00

13:20

  • Elena Pleshakova Dynamic Change in the Power of the Teacher’s Instruction in the Initial Phase of an EFL Lesson

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13:30

14:00

  • Closing ceremony and awards presentation Benas Arvydas Grigas ▶️ Rara

➡️ K. Donelaitis