Published twice a year by the Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno.

Fulltext Electronic Archive of Brno Studies in English

Brno Studies in English (BSE) is an open, peer reviewed international journal publishing articles from the fields of English and American studies.

Starting from 2009, two issues are published annually.

ISSN: 0524-6881 (Print)
ISSN: 1805-0867 (Online)

ISSN of the original Series anglica (see Journal name and series information below): 1211-1791

The journal, founded in 1959 by the late Professor Josef Vachek, is dedicated to publishing high quality contributions by scholars from both the Czech Republic and abroad. BSE is recognized as a category “C” international journal within the classification of the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH) list published in 2007 by the European Science Foundation (www.esf.org). It is the only journal in the field of English and American studies in the Czech Republic included in this list.

The preferred fields of articles for publication include (but are not limited to) the following:

• linguistics – functional syntax, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis
• literature – literatures in English
• cultural studies – about or relating to the U.K., U.S. and/or Commonwealth countries
• translation studies – translation to and from the English

Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished articles written in English. All articles submitted to BSE will be considered and reviewed anonymously (the journal has operated the blind review policy since 1995). Selected papers will be published both in print and online. All texts are made fully available online.

Editorial and advisory boards:

Mgr. Jan Chovanec, Ph.D. (editor-in-chief)

Editorial Board

Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner (Universität Salzburg)
prof. Mgr. Milada Franková, CSc., M.A. (head of the editorial board; Masaryk University, Brno)
Prof. Dr. Ulla Haselstein (Freie Universität Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Udo Hebel (University of Regensburg)
doc. PhDr. Jana Chamonikolasová, Ph.D. (Masaryk University, Brno)
Prof. Dr. Richard Janney (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universtität München)
Mgr. Renata Kamenická, Ph.D. (Masaryk University, Brno)
prof. PhDr. Aleš Klégr (Charles University, Prague)
doc. Tomáš Pospíšil, Ph.D. (Masaryk University, Brno)
Univ. Prof. Dr. Herbert Schendl (Universität Wien)
doc. PhDr. Ludmila Urbanová, CSc. (Masaryk University, Brno)

Advisory/Reviewing Board

Pavel Drábek (Masaryk University, Brno)
Rainer Emig (University of Hannover)
Wolfgang Falkner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München)
Stephen P. Hardy (Masaryk University, Brno)
Martina Horáková (Masaryk University, Brno)
Ema Jelínková (Palacký University, Olomouc)
Gunther Kaltenböck (Universität Wien)
Stanislav Kavka (University of Ostrava)
Klára Kolinská (Charles University, Praha)
Jaroslav Kušnír (University of Prešov)
Michael Matthew Kaylor (Masaryk University, Brno)
Stanislav Kolář (University of Ostrava)
Georg Marko (Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz)
Soňa Nováková (Charles University, Praha)
Věra Pálenská (Masaryk University, Brno)
Renata Povolná (Masaryk University, Brno)
Kateřina Prajznerová (Masaryk University, Brno)
Martin Pšenička (Charles University, Praha)
Jiří Rambousek (Masaryk University, Brno)
Václav Řeřicha (Palacký University, Olomouc)
Veronika Schandl (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest)
Thomas Donaldson Sparling (Masaryk University, Brno)
Renáta Tomášková (University of Ostrava)
Zenó Vernyik (Technical University, Liberec)
Radek Vogel (Masaryk University, Brno)
Kamila Vránková (University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice)
Jitka Vlčková (Masaryk University, Brno)

Information for contributors:

Brno Studies in English publishes:

• articles (original, unpublished, in English)
• reviews (of scholarly monographs and other publications)
  The editorial board will consider the suitability of manuscripts and suggestions submitted for review.

Submission deadlines:

Submissions can be made at any time.
Monothematic/special issues – as advertised by issue editors.

Guidelines for contributors:

All submissions (articles, review proposals and publications) are to be sent electronically to chovanec [at] phil.muni.cz or the following postal address:

Jan Chovanec
Department of English and American Studies
Faculty of Arts
Masaryk University
Arna Nováka 1
602 00 Brno
Czech Republic

Tel.: +420 5 4949 3573, +420 5 4949 6660
Fax: +420 5 4949 1522

Detailed Guidelines for Authors

For enquiries and/or comments, please use the following e-mail address:
chovanec [at] phil.muni.cz

Requests for exchanges and purchases should be addressed to:

Department of English and American Studies
Faculty of Arts
Arna Nováka 1
602 00 Brno
Czech Republic
english[at]phil.muni.cz

Referencing and citing articles from BSE:

Journal name and series information

The journal was founded in 1959 under the title of Brno Studies in English (abbreviated as BSE).

• Since 1979, it has been published under the parallel Czech title of Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty Brněnské university (abbreviated as SPFFBU; the Latin name Studia minora Facultatis philosophicae Universitatis masarykianae is also used by the publisher, i.e. the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University). Hence the occasional citations equating the two titles, such as SPFFBU S 8 = BSE 28, 2002, etc.
• From 1979 until 1994, the journal was published within the “K” series of SPFFBU (“germanisticko-anglistická řada/series germanica et anglica”; e.g. the 1979 volume was identified as SPFFBU K 1 = Brno Studies in English 13).
• Since 1995, the journal has been published separately within the “S” series of SBFFBU (“anglistická řada/series anglica”; e.g. the 1995 volume was identified as SPFFBU S 1 = Brno Studies in English 21).

Although the university continues to publish the journal under both names and within the “S” series (distinguishing among the journals published by the individual departments at the Faculty of Arts), the journal is officially and correctly to be cited as Brno Studies in English, followed by the appropriate volume number.

Sample citation:

Firbas, Jan (1996) ‘A case study in linear modification. (On translating Apoc. 21.6b)’. Brno Studies in English 22: 23-48.

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